Muhammed Idris: What refugees need to start new lives
Muhammed Idris: Yang dibutuhkan para pengungsi untuk memulai hidup baru
Muhammed Idris wants to improve social services delivery through collective and artificial intelligence. Full bio
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yang mengubah hidup saya.
30 first cousins,
dari kakek nenek yang sama,
yang bernama Hassen.
was actually my mom's cousin
sebagai pengungsi.
in Montreal as a refugee.
datang ke Kanada untuk mengajukan suaka
coming to Canada to apply for asylum
the clothes on their back.
since that phone call,
of technologists, researchers and refugees
dari teknikus, peneliti, dan pengungsi
termodifikasi untuk para pendatang.
self-help resources for newcomers.
language, cultural and other barriers
kendala bahasa, budaya, dan hambatan lain
hilang kendali atas hidup mereka sendiri.
control over their own lives.
bisa mengembalikan hak dan martabat
the rights and the dignity
saat mencari bantuan.
is not unique.
keluarga saya tidak unik.
terpaksa mengungsi
are newly displaced
at a local YMCA shelter
di penampungan YMCA setempat
dan saudara lainnya berada
and other relatives were sent to
dibutuhkan untuk proses pemukiman kembali.
resettlement requires.
you need to find a lawyer
Anda harus mencari seorang pengacara
dalam dua minggu.
within two weeks.
dengan dokter yang berwenang,
with a pre-authorized physician,
for a work permit.
tempat untuk tinggal
for a place to live
any sort of social assistance.
segala bentuk bantuan sosial.
dari Amerika Serikat
beberapa tahun terakhir,
over the past few years,
apa jadinya
bantuan daripada sumber daya bantuannya.
than there are resources to help them.
berusaha semampunya
dengan sumber daya terbatas,
with limited resources,
more time waiting in limbo,
menunggu tidak jelas lamanya,
menyokong usaha pemukiman kembali,
to support resettlement efforts,
still don't know
masih tidak tahu
dari mengisi surat-surat
from filling out paperwork
that this information doesn't exist.
informasinya tidak ada.
bombarded with so much information
dibombardir terlalu banyak informasi
to make sense of it all.
katakan saja apa yang harus saya lakukan,"
just tell me what to do,"
over and over again.
yang kami dengar lagi dan lagi.
untuk mendapatkan status pindah
it could be to get your bearings
tiba di negara baru.
when I got to Montreal,
masalah yang sama saat tiba di Montreal,
seorang pengungsi, mengatakan,
himself also a refugee, put it:
is more important than food,
lebih penting daripada makanan,
karena kelaparan."
resources and information
sumber daya dan informasi yang tepat
antara hidup dan mati.
between life and death.
sumber daya dan informasi yang tepat
resources and information
antara hidup dan mati.
between life and death.
melalui minggu pertama Anda
through your first week
bantuan yang Anda perlukan.
beberapa pertanyaan dasar
some basic questions
for resources.
terhadap sumber daya.
punya tempat tinggal untuk malam ini?
a place to stay tonight?
penampungan yang seluruhnya wanita?
an all-women's shelter?
langkah demi langkah khusus
a custom, step-by-step to-do list
that you need to know,
semua yang Anda harus ketahui,
bagaimana cara ke sana,
with a real person who does.
dengan manusia yang tahu jawabannya.
and service organizations
organisasi kemanusiaan dan pelayanan
yang dibutuhkan untuk memahami
that's necessary to understand
campaigns in Arabic, English,
dalam bahasa Arab, Inggris,
pada statistik resmi
displaced worldwide.
mengungsi di seluruh dunia.
an additional 140 million people
tambahan 140 juta orang lagi
karena degradasi lingkungan.
due to environmental degradation.
there are nearly one billion people
ada hampir satu miliar orang
dan perkampungan kumuh.
settlements and slums.
tantangan terbesar di masa ini.
challenges of our time.
every single newcomer an advocate.
advokat kepada setiap pendatang.
can amplify existing efforts
memperkuat usaha yang ada
on a social safety net
pada jaring pengaman sosial
lebih dari yang bisa dibayangkan.
beyond imagination.
memulihkan hak-hak dan martabat
the rights and the dignity
proses pemukiman kembali dan integrasi
resettlement and integration
dibutuhkan untuk membantu dirinya sendiri.
they need in order to help themselves.
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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