Muhammed Idris: What refugees need to start new lives
Muhammed Idris: O que os refugiados precisam para iniciar uma nova vida
Muhammed Idris wants to improve social services delivery through collective and artificial intelligence. Full bio
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que mudou a minha vida.
30 first cousins,
chamado Hassen.
was actually my mom's cousin
primo da minha mãe
in Montreal as a refugee.
como refugiado.
coming to Canada to apply for asylum
a chegar ao Canadá, pedindo asilo
the clothes on their back.
que traziam vestida.
since that phone call,
of technologists, researchers and refugees
de tecnólogos, investigadores e refugiados
self-help resources for newcomers.
de autoajuda para recém-chegados.
language, cultural and other barriers
as barreiras da língua, culturais e outras
control over their own lives.
o controlo da sua vida.
the rights and the dignity
os direitos e a dignidade
quando procura ajuda.
is not unique.
da minha família não é única.
— a agência da UE para os refugiados —
are newly displaced
há mais 20 pessoas desalojadas,
da crise económica,
num abrigo local do YMCA,
at a local YMCA shelter
and other relatives were sent to
e outros familiares foram enviados
resettlement requires.
que um realojamento exige.
you need to find a lawyer
é arranjar um advogado
within two weeks.
num prazo de duas semanas.
with a pre-authorized physician,
um exame médico
for a work permit.
uma autorização de trabalho.
for a place to live
um local para viver,
any sort of social assistance.
tipo de assistência social.
over the past few years,
nos últimos anos,
than there are resources to help them.
do que recursos para os ajudar.
não aumentam rapidamente
fazerem o melhor que podem,
with limited resources,
com recursos limitados,
more time waiting in limbo,
muito tempo à espera no limbo,
to support resettlement efforts,
para apoiar o esforço de realojamento,
still don't know
ainda não sabem
from filling out paperwork
desde o preenchimento da papelada
that this information doesn't exist.
que essas informações não existam.
bombarded with so much information
são bombardeados com tantas informações
to make sense of it all.
just tell me what to do,"
digam-me só o que devo fazer"
over and over again.
que ouvíamos a toda a hora.
it could be to get your bearings
orientarmo-nos
pela primeira vez.
when I got to Montreal,
quando cheguei a Montreal
himself also a refugee, put it:
também um refugiado:
is more important than food,
é mais importante que comida,
resources and information
e às informações adequadas
between life and death.
entre a vida e a morte.
resources and information
e às informações adequadas
between life and death.
entre a vida e a morte.
criámos Atar,
alimentado por Inteligência Artificial
through your first week
durante a primeira semana
que é preciso ajuda
algumas perguntas básicas
some basic questions
as circunstâncias individuais
for resources.
para os recursos.
a place to stay tonight?
onde passar esta noite?
an all-women's shelter?
só para mulheres?
personalizada, passo a passo,
a custom, step-by-step to-do list
that you need to know,
sempre que se quiser.
with a real person who does.
que responde.
and service organizations
humanitárias e de serviços
that's necessary to understand
necessárias para compreender
dos recém-chegados,
com a UNHCR,
no Canadá
campaigns in Arabic, English,
campanhas em árabe, inglês,
no problema dos refugiados,
nas estatísticas oficiais
displaced worldwide.
a migrar, a nível mundial.
é muito maior do que isso.
an additional 140 million people
140 milhões de pessoas
due to environmental degradation.
devido à degradação do ambiente.
there are nearly one billion people
há quase mil milhões de pessoas
settlements and slums.
ilegais e em bairros de barracas.
challenges of our time.
da nossa época
every single newcomer an advocate.
forneça um advogado a cada recém-chegado.
can amplify existing efforts
possa ampliar os esforços existentes
on a social safety net
de segurança social
beyond imagination.
para além da nossa imaginação.
the rights and the dignity
os direitos e a dignidade
resettlement and integration
aquando do realojamento e da integração
they need in order to help themselves.
de que eles precisam para sobreviverem.
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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