Muhammed Idris: What refugees need to start new lives
मुहम्मद इदरीस: पुनर्वास के लिए शरणार्थियों को क्या चाहिए
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
वास्तव में मेरी माँ का चचेरा भाई था
in Montreal as a refugee.
मॉन्ट्रियल में आया था।
coming to Canada to apply for asylum
करने मेरे 3 और रिश्तेदार आएंगे
the clothes on their back.
since that phone call,
of technologists, researchers and refugees
और शरणार्थियों की टीम का नेतृत्व करता हूँ
self-help resources for newcomers.
संसाधन विकसित कर रहा है।
को दूर करने में मदद करना चाहते हैं
language, cultural and other barriers
नियंत्रण खो दिया है की तरह लग रहा है।
control over their own lives.
में मदद कर सकता है
the rights and the dignity
is not unique.
अद्वितीय नहीं है।
are newly displaced
at a local YMCA shelter
आश्रय में स्वेच्छा से था
and other relatives were sent to
रिश्तेदारों को भेजा गया था
resettlement requires.
पुनर्वास की आवश्यकता है।
you need to find a lawyer
तो आपको एक वकील जरुरी है
within two weeks.
कानूनी दस्तावेज भरें सके ।
with a pre-authorized physician,
चिकित्सा परीक्षा भी निर्धारित करनी होगी,
for a work permit.
आवेदन कर सकते हैं।
for a place to live
जगह की तलाश शुरू करनी होगी
any sort of social assistance.
प्राप्त करते हैं।
कनाडा में शरण लेने के लिए,
over the past few years,
than there are resources to help them.
आवश्यकता है उनकी मदद करने के संसाधनोंसे।
पर नहीं होती,
with limited resources,
मदद करने के लिए,
more time waiting in limbo,
लिए इंतजार कर रहे हैं,
to support resettlement efforts,
लाखों डॉलर खर्च किए जाने के बावजूद,
still don't know
अभी भी नहीं जानते हैं
from filling out paperwork
सब कुछ उनकी मदद करने के लिए
that this information doesn't exist.
यह जानकारी मौजूद नहीं है।
bombarded with so much information
इतनी जानकारी के साथ बमबारी की जाती है
to make sense of it all.
just tell me what to do,"
बस मुझे बताओ क्या करना है, "
over and over again.
it could be to get your bearings
प्राप्त करना कितना कठिन हो सकता है
when I got to Montreal,
जूझता रहा,जब मैं मॉन्ट्रियल आया
खुद भी एक शरणार्थी हैं, इसे डालें:
himself also a refugee, put it:
is more important than food,
भोजन से अधिक महत्वपूर्ण है,
resources and information
between life and death.
resources and information
between life and death.
through your first week
चरण-दर-चरण मार्गदर्शन करता है
some basic questions
for resources.
का निर्धारण के लिए।
a place to stay tonight?
रहने के लिए जगह है?
an all-women's shelter?
आश्रय पसंद करेंगे?
a custom, step-by-step to-do list
चरण-दर-चरण सूची उत्पन्न करेगा
that you need to know,
जो आपको जानना चाहिए,
with a real person who does.
संपर्क में रहेंगे।
and service organizations
की मदद करते हैं
that's necessary to understand
जो समझने के लिए आवश्यक है
campaigns in Arabic, English,
किया है अरबी, अंग्रेजी में
के मुद्दे पर बात करते हैं,
ध्यान केंद्रित करते हैं
displaced worldwide.
दुनिया भर में विस्थापित।
an additional 140 million people
due to environmental degradation.
विस्थापित होने का खतरा रखते हैं।
there are nearly one billion people
settlements and slums.
झुग्गियों में रहते हैं।
challenges of our time.
चुनौतियों में से एक है।
every single newcomer an advocate.
को एक वकील प्रदान कर सकता है।
can amplify existing efforts
मौजूदा प्रयासों को बढ़ा सकता है
on a social safety net
beyond imagination.
the rights and the dignity
को बहाल में मदद करता है
resettlement and integration
में खो जाते हैं
they need in order to help themselves.
की मदद करने के लिए चाहिए।
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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