Muhammed Idris: What refugees need to start new lives
Muhammed Idris: Ce dont les réfugiés ont besoin pour commencer une nouvelle vie
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
le cousin de ma mère
in Montreal as a refugee.
en tant que réfugié.
coming to Canada to apply for asylum
pour demander l'asile
the clothes on their back.
que les vêtements sur leur dos.
since that phone call,
of technologists, researchers and refugees
de technologues, chercheurs et réfugiés
self-help resources for newcomers.
pour les nouveaux arrivants.
language, cultural and other barriers
linguistiques, culturelles et autres
control over their own lives.
perdu le contrôle de leur propre vie.
the rights and the dignity
à rétablir les droits et la dignité
en demandant de l'aide.
is not unique.
dans ma famille n'est pas unique.
are newly displaced
personnes sont déplacées
at a local YMCA shelter
dans un YMCA local
and other relatives were sent to
et mes autres proches
resettlement requires.
que nécessite la réinstallation.
you need to find a lawyer
vous devez trouver un avocat
within two weeks.
sous deux semaines.
with a pre-authorized physician,
avec un médecin agréé,
for a work permit.
de permis de travail.
for a place to live
any sort of social assistance.
de l'aide sociale.
des États-Unis
over the past few years,
ces dernières années,
than there are resources to help them.
que de ressources pour les aider.
ne s'adaptent pas rapidement,
font de leur mieux
with limited resources,
avec des moyens limités,
more time waiting in limbo,
longtemps dans l'incertitude
to support resettlement efforts,
pour les efforts de réinstallation,
still don't know
ne savent toujours pas
from filling out paperwork
à remplir leurs documents
that this information doesn't exist.
l'information n'existe pas.
bombarded with so much information
sont bombardés de tellement d'informations
to make sense of it all.
just tell me what to do,"
dites-moi ce qu'il faut faire »,
over and over again.
it could be to get your bearings
difficile de trouver ses repères
when I got to Montreal,
lorsque je suis arrivé à Montréal,
himself also a refugee, put it:
de notre équipe, lui-même réfugié :
is more important than food,
est plus importante que la nourriture,
resources and information
et aux informations appropriées
between life and death.
entre la vie et la mort.
resources and information
et aux informations appropriées
between life and death.
entre la vie et la mort.
par une intelligence artificielle
through your first week
lors de votre première semaine
some basic questions
des questions basiques
for resources.
dont vous avez besoin.
a place to stay tonight?
un logement pour ce soir ?
an all-women's shelter?
a custom, step-by-step to-do list
une liste d'étapes personnalisée
that you need to know,
n'importe quand,
with a real person who does.
avec une vraie personne.
and service organizations
les organisations humanitaires
that's necessary to understand
pour comprendre
des réfugiés en temps réel.
campaigns in Arabic, English,
en arabe, en anglais,
de la question des réfugiés,
sur le nombre officiel
displaced worldwide.
dans le monde.
an additional 140 million people
due to environmental degradation.
des dommages environnementaux.
there are nearly one billion people
près d'un milliard de gens
settlements and slums.
et des camps illégaux.
challenges of our time.
de notre temps.
every single newcomer an advocate.
chaque nouvel arrivant.
can amplify existing efforts
amplifier les efforts existants
on a social safety net
d'un filet de sécurité social
beyond imagination.
the rights and the dignity
à rétablir les droits et la dignité
resettlement and integration
pendant leur réinstallation et intégration
they need in order to help themselves.
pour qu'ils puissent s'aider eux-mêmes.
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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