Muhammed Idris: What refugees need to start new lives
Мухамед Идрис: От какво се нуждаят бежанците за да започнат нов живот
Muhammed Idris wants to improve social services delivery through collective and artificial intelligence. Full bio
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30 first cousins,
was actually my mom's cousin
in Montreal as a refugee.
coming to Canada to apply for asylum
за да кандидатстват за убежище
the clothes on their back.
since that phone call,
of technologists, researchers and refugees
на технолози, изследователи и бежанци
self-help resources for newcomers.
ресурси за новодошлите.
language, cultural and other barriers
езиковите, културните и други бариери,
control over their own lives.
сякаш са загубили контрол над живота си.
the rights and the dignity
да възтановят правата и достойнството си,
търсят помощ.
is not unique.
не е различна.
are newly displaced
икономическата криза
at a local YMCA shelter
УМСА приют,
and other relatives were sent to
роднини бяха изпратени,
resettlement requires.
пренаселването.
you need to find a lawyer
трябва да си намериш адвокат,
within two weeks.
две седмици.
with a pre-authorized physician,
преглед с предварително упълномощен лекар,
for a work permit.
за разрешение да работиш.
for a place to live
място за живеене,
any sort of social assistance.
социално подпомагане.
over the past few years,
последните няколко години,
than there are resources to help them.
от колкото ресурси, с които да им се помогне.
каквото могат,
with limited resources,
more time waiting in limbo,
повече време в очакване,
to support resettlement efforts,
в подкрепа на усилията за презаселване,
still don't know
from filling out paperwork
от попълване на документи,
that this information doesn't exist.
информация не съществува.
bombarded with so much information
заринати от толкова много информаци,
to make sense of it all.
just tell me what to do,"
просто ми кажи какво да правя,"
over and over again.
it could be to get your bearings
може да е,
when I got to Montreal,
проблеми, когато пристигнах в Монреал,
himself also a refugee, put it:
също бежанец, каза:
is more important than food,
от храна,
resources and information
ресурси и информация
between life and death.
и смъртта.
resources and information
и информация
between life and death.
живота и смъртта.
виртуален адвокат,
through your first week
през първата ти седмица
каква помощ се нуждаете
some basic questions
основни въпроса,
уникални обстоятелства
for resources.
a place to stay tonight?
да отседнеш довечера?
an all-women's shelter?
a custom, step-by-step to-do list
списък със задачи,
that you need to know,
се нуждаеш да знаеш,
как да стигнеш до там,
with a real person who does.
който има.
and service organizations
that's necessary to understand
на необходимото,
нужди на новодошлите
в Канада.
campaigns in Arabic, English,
на арабски, английски
с бежанците,
официалната статистика
displaced worldwide.
разселени по света.
много по-голяма от това.
an additional 140 million people
милиона човека,
due to environmental degradation.
заради влошаване на околната среда.
there are nearly one billion people
един милиард хора,
settlements and slums.
и гета.
challenges of our time.
предизвикателства на времето ни.
every single newcomer an advocate.
предостави на всеки новодошъл адвокат.
can amplify existing efforts
намали съществуващите усилия
on a social safety net
мрежа за социална сигурност,
beyond imagination.
отвъд фантазията.
the rights and the dignity
възстановяването на правата и достойнството,
resettlement and integration
презаселването и интеграцията
they need in order to help themselves.
за да помогнат на себе си.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Muhammed Idris - Entrepreneur, investorMuhammed Idris wants to improve social services delivery through collective and artificial intelligence.
Why you should listen
Dr. Muhammed Y. Idris, PhD is a Fellow at Capria, a leading global impact investment firm, and the cofounder and lead developer of Edel Technologies, an organization that build AI-powered tools and products for frontline humanitarian organizations and service providers, including the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).
Inspired by own personal experiences with refugee resettlement, Idris left academia to build the world's first virtual advocate bot, Atar, that empowers refugees and other newcomers with information about what to do, where to go and what to expect using customized step-by-step guides.
Trained as a computational social scientist, Idris started his career in finance at BlackRock and went on to complete a PhD with a focus on research and development of open-source tools for leveraging socially-generating "big data" and make it easy to digest this complex technical information into actionable insights.
Idris's work has been presented at numerous academic, policy and industry conferences, and he has held teaching and research positions at the University of Washington, The Pennsylvania State University, Concordia University in Montreal as well as Harvard University, where he held a predoctoral fellowship at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affair while completing his dissertation.
As a self-taught programmer, Idris enjoys teaching statistics and programming in his spare time. While his current focus in on helping streamline and scale refugee resettlement, his mission is to help improve social services delivery for all through collective and artificial intelligence as an entrepreneur and investor.
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