DreamLab - Powering Research 2.6.7

Temporarily, DreamLab is being utilized to support research efforts in combating the coronavirus (COVID-19).

DreamLab is a highly acclaimed app developed by the Vodafone Foundation in partnership with Imperial College London. Its purpose is to accelerate research on Covid-19 and cancer by leveraging the combined processing power of mobile phones. The objective of DreamLab is to expedite the discovery of answers, and the more individuals who engage with the app, the faster it operates.

Every day, an immense amount of health data is generated worldwide through medical research. However, access to computing power necessary to analyze and interpret this data is limited. Mobile devices possess a significant amount of untapped computing power that remains idle while they charge overnight. DreamLab harnesses this untapped potential by utilizing the processing power of thousands of mobile devices, including yours, to examine health data specifically for repurposing existing drugs in the fight against cancer.

By leveraging this invaluable resource, DreamLab seeks to identify more effective combinations of drugs that can be tailored to individual patients, thus improving treatments and saving lives. As a participant in DreamLab, you have the opportunity to choose which project you would like to support and also determine the amount of mobile data the app consumes each month (or restrict it to WiFi usage only). The processing power of 100,000 smartphones running DreamLab for six hours nightly can achieve what one continuously operating PC would take 300 years to accomplish.

Take action today by downloading the DreamLab app and contribute to the fight against cancer.

• Charge: Download the DreamLab app and whenever your phone is charging and connected to the internet, you will actively contribute to saving lives in the battle against Covid-19 and cancer.
• Sleep: Let your phone charge overnight while DreamLab utilizes its dormant processing power to support crucial cancer research.
• Fight Covid-19 and Cancer: Join thousands of DreamLab users who, while sleeping, empower their phones to function as a virtual supercomputer that can process billions of calculations, thereby accelerating research aimed at combatting Covid-19 and cancer.

When you plug in your phone and activate DreamLab, the app downloads small sections of a vast research project from the cloud, calculates the results, and sends them back to the Imperial College London team. The more individuals who use DreamLab, the faster we can identify the most suitable drugs and treatments to defeat cancer. Simply set up DreamLab once, and it will commence working whenever you charge your phone.

To contribute to the fight against Covid-19 and cancer and help discover the necessary drugs and treatments, download the app (#) and select your preferred Project. Additionally, you can track your contributions and stay updated with the latest news.

DreamLab supports cancer research globally and is powered by the Vodafone Foundation.

A compatible handset is required for using DreamLab. Downloading the app will consume mobile data. Once downloaded, DreamLab can be used when your device is connected to a power source and has mobile network or WiFi connectivity.

By downloading, installing, or using the DreamLab application on your device, you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions found at https://www.vodafone.co.uk/mobile/dreamlab. If you do not agree to these Terms, please refrain from downloading, installing, or using the DreamLab application.