Dataminr, one of the world’s leading AI companies, today announced its 2023 AI for Good partners: Insecurity Insight, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Ushahidi. In May 2023, Dataminr began accepting applications for its AI for Good program, a partnership that allows NGOs and multilateral organizations to collaborate with Dataminr AI scientists to turn their compelling ideas for how to benefit society and the planet into tailored AI solutions.
“The projects we selected are unique in thematic focus and geography,” said Joel Tetreault, Senior Director of Research at Dataminr, “but each contributes to improving the ability of AI to deliver on important social impact requirements. This includes expanding real-time event detection to new humanitarian contexts and enhancing machine comprehension with limited training data.”
After a rigorous selection process, these organizations were chosen to deliver the following humanitarian and development solutions:
- Insecurity Insight: Dataminr will work with Insecurity Insight to automate the identification and classification of attacks targeting food systems, ensuring that Insecurity Insight’s humanitarian partners on the ground can know sooner and act faster. This will complement Insecurity Insight’s existing work on aid security, health education, and protection that enables them to regularly share updates on violence affecting the aid sector.
- United Nations Development Programme (UNDP): Dataminr will partner with UNDP’s Risk Anticipation Hub to expand its current detection capabilities to discover events like inter-communal and gender-based violence. Resulting AI models will improve UNDP’s ability to identify and mitigate a broader range of risks, and help to address the drivers and root causes of conflict and other types of crisis.
- Ushahidi: Ushahidi empowers people through citizen-generated data to develop solutions that drive good governance, humanitarian relief and human rights protection. Having received hundreds of thousands of crowdsourced reports to their Kenyan deployment, Ushahidi and Dataminr are partnering with the goal to automate categorization of these messages based on language and content—allowing Ushahidi to more quickly and efficiently share information with impacted communities.
The AI for Good program is a collaborative, research-based initiative led by Dataminr’s Social Innovation Lab. Over the course of the next three to nine months, Dataminr researchers will work closely with the selected social good partners to define the scope of each project, iterating as more information comes to light about the research question and potential technical solutions.
“We launched the program earlier this year and issued a call for applications for the first time,” said Sirene Abou-Chakra, Director of Dataminr’s Social Innovation Lab. “I’m proud to say that the response was overwhelming. We received applications from a diverse pool of organizations from all corners of the globe—all eager to create innovative solutions that help to accelerate AI-driven progress and change.”
Learn more about Dataminr’s social good efforts and sign up for the Social Good newsletter to stay up to date on Dataminr-supported humanitarian projects.
ABOUT DATAMINR
Dataminr has created a revolutionary real-time AI platform for detecting high-impact events, risks and critical information from public data signals. Recognized as one of the world’s leading AI companies, Dataminr enables faster real-time response and more effective risk management for public and private sector organizations including multinational corporations, governments, NGOs, and newsrooms. Most recently valued at $4.1B, Dataminr is one of New York’s top private technology companies with approximately 800 employees across seven global offices.
Dataminr’s corporate products—Dataminr Pulse for Corporate Security and Dataminr Pulse for Cyber Risk—are relied on by hundreds of leading global corporations including two-thirds of the Fortune 50 and half of the Fortune 100. The company’s First Alert product serves the defense, federal, state and local and NGO markets in both the U.S and across the globe, including the United Nations, which relies on First Alert in over 100 countries. Dataminr for News is used by more than 1,500 newsrooms and over 30,000 journalists worldwide.
Dataminr’s world-leading AI platform performs trillions of daily computations across billions of public data inputs from nearly one million unique public data sources encompassing text, image, video, audio and sensor signals. The company is known for its trailblazing AI platform that has pioneered multimodal fusion AI for real-time event detection. Harnessing the power of LLMs and multi-modal foundation models, Dataminr’s AI platform is at the forefront of AI innovation in both Predictive AI and Generative AI. Dataminr has been recognized by Forbes AI 50 and Deloitte Fast 500, and was named to the Forbes Cloud 100 for six consecutive years.
Contact: [email protected]