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Multi-AI Complex Systems in Humanitarian Response
Joseph Aylett-Bullock, Miguel Luengo-Oroz
AI is being increasingly used to aid response efforts to humanitarian emergencies at multiple levels of decision-making. Such AI systems are generally understood to be stand-alone…
Predictive modeling of movements of refugees and internally displaced people: Towards a computational framework
Katherine Hoffmann Pham, Miguel Luengo-Oroz
Predicting forced displacement is an important undertaking of many humanitarian aid agencies, which must anticipate flows in advance in order to provide vulnerable refugees and Int…
Considerations, Good Practices, Risks and Pitfalls in Developing AI Solutions Against COVID-19
Alexandra Luccioni, Joseph Bullock, Katherine Hoffmann Pham +2
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a major challenge to humanity, with 12.7 million confirmed cases as of July 13th, 2020 [1]. In previous work, we described how Artificial Intelligenc…
From plague to coronavirus: On the value of ship traffic data for epidemic modeling
Katherine Hoffmann Pham, Miguel Luengo-Oroz
In addition to moving people and goods, ships can spread disease. Ship traffic may complement air traffic as a source of import risk, and cruise ships - with large passenger volume…
Mapping the Landscape of Artificial Intelligence Applications against COVID-19
Joseph Bullock, Alexandra Luccioni, Katherine Hoffmann Pham +2
COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, has been declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization, which has reported over 18 million confirmed cases as of August…
Solidarity should be a core ethical principle of Artificial Intelligence
Miguel Luengo-Oroz
Solidarity is one of the fundamental values at the heart of the construction of peaceful societies and present in more than one third of world's constitutions. Still, solidarity is…
Mobility profiles and calendars for food security and livelihoods analysis
Pedro J. Zufiria, David Pastor-Escuredo, Luis Ubeda Medina +7
Social vulnerability is defined as the capacity of individuals and social groups to respond to any external stress placed on their livelihoods and wellbeing. Mobility and migration…
The International Postal Network and Other Global Flows As Proxies for National Wellbeing
Desislava Hristova, Alex Rutherford, Jose Anson +2
The digital exhaust left by flows of physical and digital commodities provides a rich measure of the nature, strength and significance of relationships between countries in the glo…
Can Fires, Night Lights, and Mobile Phones reveal behavioral fingerprints useful for Development?
David Pastor-Escuredo, Thierry Savy, Miguel A. Luengo-Oroz
Fires, lights at night and mobile phone activity have been separately used as proxy indicators of human activity with high potential for measuring human development. In this prelim…
Flooding through the lens of mobile phone activity
David Pastor-Escuredo, Alfredo Morales-Guzmán, Yolanda Torres-Fernández +10
Natural disasters affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide every year. Emergency response efforts depend upon the availability of timely information, such as information con…
Estimating Food Consumption and Poverty Indices with Mobile Phone Data
Adeline Decuyper, Alex Rutherford, Amit Wadhwa +5
Recent studies have shown the value of mobile phone data to tackle problems related to economic development and humanitarian action. In this research, we assess the suitability of…