Muhammed Idris: What refugees need to start new lives
ムハンマド・イドリス: 難民が新しい人生を始めるために必要なもの
Muhammed Idris wants to improve social services delivery through collective and artificial intelligence. Full bio
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人生が変わりました
30 first cousins,
覚えがなかったのです
was actually my mom's cousin
到着したばかりだったのです
in Montreal as a refugee.
coming to Canada to apply for asylum
難民保護の申請のため
the clothes on their back.
since that phone call,
of technologists, researchers and refugees
多様な仲間を率い
self-help resources for newcomers.
自助リソースを開発しています
language, cultural and other barriers
彼らが感じる原因となっている—
control over their own lives.
乗り越える手助けをしたいのです
the rights and the dignity
人権と尊厳を取り戻すのに
is not unique.
珍しいものではありません
によると
are newly displaced
at a local YMCA shelter
親戚が送られた先の
and other relatives were sent to
奉仕活動の間に
調整を必要とするものなのか
resettlement requires.
you need to find a lawyer
2週間以内に
提出する必要があります
within two weeks.
with a pre-authorized physician,
予約する必要もあります
for a work permit.
for a place to live
社会的支援を受ける前に
any sort of social assistance.
難民保護を求め
over the past few years,
助けとなるリソースより多い状況が
than there are resources to help them.
規模を拡大するのに時間がかかりますし
限られたリソースで最善を尽くし
with limited resources,
more time waiting in limbo,
宙ぶらりん状態で
増えてしまうのです
to support resettlement efforts,
何百万ドルと費やされているにもかかわらず
still don't know
無料支援リソースがあることを
from filling out paperwork
that this information doesn't exist.
問題なのではありません
bombarded with so much information
しばしば 与えられる情報が多すぎて
to make sense of it all.
just tell me what to do,"
ただ すべきことを教えてほしい」
over and over again.
繰り返し繰り返し聞きました
it could be to get your bearings
いかに 右も左もわからず
反映する言葉です
when I got to Montreal,
同じ問題に もがきました
こう表現しました
himself also a refugee, put it:
is more important than food,
食料より重要です
resources and information
手が届くか否かが
between life and death.
resources and information
手が届くか否かが
between life and death.
AIを使った仮想難民支援者です
through your first week
最初の一週間を
伝えるだけでいいのです
その人特有の状況を理解するための
some basic questions
for resources.
導き出してくれます
a place to stay tonight?
「今夜の宿泊場所はありますか」
an all-women's shelter?
「女性専用保護施設を希望しますか」
a custom, step-by-step to-do list
段階別 やることリストに
that you need to know,
全て書いてあります
with a real person who does.
つなげてくれます
and service organizations
that's necessary to understand
リアルタイムで理解する際に
campaigns in Arabic, English,
フランス語 クレオール語 スペイン語で
displaced worldwide.
6580万人だとする公的な統計の数字です
ずっと多いのです
an additional 140 million people
これに加えて1億4千万人が
due to environmental degradation.
住む所を失う恐れがあります
there are nearly one billion people
既に10億人近くが
settlements and slums.
challenges of our time.
every single newcomer an advocate.
新規入国者一人一人の支援者となることです
can amplify existing efforts
今ある取り組みを活性化し
on a social safety net
負担を負っている—
beyond imagination.
荷を和らげてやれること
the rights and the dignity
resettlement and integration
they need in order to help themselves.
取り戻す助けとなることです
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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