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The Void: Building trust for Artificial Intelligence in the humanitarian context

The Void: Building trust for Artificial Intelligence in the humanitarian context

To harness the potential of AI, the humanitarian sector requires a need more powerful for success than the data itself: trust.
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UNHCR Innovation Service
Is it possible to predict forced displacement?

Is it possible to predict forced displacement?

The origins of UNHCR’s first predictive analytics platform to better understand the relationship between climate, conflict and…
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UNHCR Innovation Service
Revolutionising Recruitment: A test for AI in the United Nations

Revolutionising Recruitment: A test for AI in the United Nations

How UNHCR’s Division of Human Resources is using Artificial Intelligence to rethink what recruitment looks like.
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UNHCR Innovation Service
What does it mean to be a Data Scientist in the humanitarian sector?

What does it mean to be a Data Scientist in the humanitarian sector?

From data wrangling to changing mindsets and breaking through jargon — we look at the state of Data Scientists in the humanitarian sector.
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Rebeca Moreno Jimenez
Teaching a ‘robot’ to detect xenophobia online

Teaching a ‘robot’ to detect xenophobia online

How UNHCR turned to Twitter data to identify patterns that could help provide insights into cross-border movements in the European crisis.
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Rebeca Moreno Jimenez
UNHCR’s newest Artificial Intelligence Engineer on bias, coding, and representation

UNHCR’s newest Artificial Intelligence Engineer on bias, coding, and representation

UNHCR’s AI Engineer is challenging narratives around women in STEM, who gets to innovate, and the role of tech in the humanitarian sector.
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UNHCR Innovation Service
From big data to humanitarian-in-the-loop algorithms

From big data to humanitarian-in-the-loop algorithms

We should imagine a future where we have understood how to augment (and not replace) the human condition by leveraging technology.
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UNHCR Innovation Service
New paper from UN Global Pulse and UNHCR explores use of digital data for insights into…

New paper from UN Global Pulse and UNHCR explores use of digital data for insights into…

The paper is the result of an experimental project to inform the viability of using Twitter data for understanding sentiment of…
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UNHCR Innovation Service
Beyond numbers: Why cultural change has to accompany our renewed investment in data.

Beyond numbers: Why cultural change has to accompany our renewed investment in data.

How are data and culture linked, and what needs to change in our culture to become data-driven?
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UNHCR Innovation Service
A goat story

A goat story

How weather patterns in Europe, goats in Somalia and cross-agency collaboration led to UNHCR’s first predictive analytics platform.
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UNHCR Innovation Service
Jetson: insights into building a predictive analytics platform for displacement

Jetson: insights into building a predictive analytics platform for displacement

What does success look like for a predictive analytics project? We ask two UNHCR colleagues their thoughts.
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Lauren Parater
10 big data science challenges facing humanitarian organizations

10 big data science challenges facing humanitarian organizations

There is no silver bullet, and recent hype oversimplifies what can and cannot be done with big data in the humanitarian sector.
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UNHCR Innovation Service
The recipe for success: humility and resilience in humanitarian innovation failures

The recipe for success: humility and resilience in humanitarian innovation failures

How the failures behind UNHCR’s predictive analytics platform set the project down a new and unexpected path.
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