Prof. Agnis Stibe x CoronaWhy - Fighting COVID-19 through Data
Channel: CoronaWhy
Date: 2020-04-15

Summary (-2:28 in time)
00:10 - About prof Stibe
01:00 - About CoronaWhy
15:45 - Introduction to what prof Stibe is doing
16:45 - Introduction into what CoronaWhy does
17:49 - Efforts besides Kaggle submission
18:26 - Behavioral pattern / synthesizing findings
19:59 - Changing behaviors / changing something in your mind
23:27 - Corporate data versus public data
25:00 - Utilizing systems like bike sharing as a proxy for behavior patterns
26:44 - Isolated people and understanding people's behavior through exercising/meditation apps
28:11 - Changing population's behavior through feedback loops: exposing similar people to the target audience
30:17 - Precision doesn't matter, it's the taste of the data. We change our behavior socially.
32:14 - Smoking is bad, so what? Failure to understand the change
35:12 - Creating infrastructure to change easy to indulge behaviors (netflix, facebook, overeating)
38:55 - "Having fun" type of people and how curiosity can drive the change
40:30 - People are innately interested in what other people are doing, that's why they watch Netflix
41:14 - Amplifying curiosity through gamification 
42:09 - Power and sustainability coming from inner yourself, not external world or magic pills or courses
45:12 - How to help people efficiently achieve their transformation desires (from fearful to cautious)
46:25 - Activating inner genes (your nature) to transform ourselves versus, how to activate people
50:28 - System One and activation of our basic human being concepts
51:45 - External world is mainly optimized for System Two, reward based and computational, you can't rationalize behavior change
53:15 - Start with Why, not with What


On April  Wednesday 15th we had a Zoom call with Prof. Agnis Stibe to discuss three key areas:
- Which data sources best help in understanding situations and designing transformation.
- How organizations like CoronaWhy can leverage insights from transformation science and practice to scale and amplify positive change.
- An exploration of technology design for transformation at scale - transforming cities - with a special focus on the role of social psychology in designing feedback loops.

Background on Prof. Agnis Stibe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy23R1GIOsQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BguqGUCV3l0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3t0mOtQkgA

We’ll have 30 minutes of planned agenda and 30 minutes available for a more interactive discussion after that (1 hour total).

We're picturing us staying focused for the bulk of the conversation on COVID-19 data analysis, but at the end going a bit wider, moving through changing people’s behaviour in response to COVID-19 to more generally using data to create / amplify positive change - including transformation science and social psychology.

To better help people plan the second half of open Q&A or for those in unsuitable timezones I thought it best to give everyone a chance to submit questions you would like to ask to the thread in #smartcities (or here and I will try cross thread them)