Muhammed Idris: What refugees need to start new lives
Muhammed Idris: Quello che serve ai rifugiati per iniziare la loro nuova vita
Muhammed Idris wants to improve social services delivery through collective and artificial intelligence. Full bio
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che mi ha cambiato la vita.
30 first cousins,
di primo grado,
che si chiamasse Hassen.
era in realtà un cugino di mia madre
was actually my mom's cousin
in Montreal as a refugee.
coming to Canada to apply for asylum
in Canada a chiedere asilo,
the clothes on their back.
che avevano addosso.
since that phone call,
da quella telefonata,
of technologists, researchers and refugees
ricercatori e rifugiati
self-help resources for newcomers.
su misura per i nuovi arrivati.
language, cultural and other barriers
linguistiche, culturali e di altro tipo
control over their own lives.
perso il controllo delle loro vite.
the rights and the dignity
i diritti e la dignità
quando chiedono aiuto.
is not unique.
della mia famiglia non è unica.
delle Nazioni Unite per i rifugiati,
are newly displaced
crisi economiche
in un centro per rifugiati YMCA,
at a local YMCA shelter
and other relatives were sent to
mio cugino Hassen e altri parenti,
resettlement requires.
richiede il reinsediamento.
you need to find a lawyer
within two weeks.
entro due settimane.
with a pre-authorized physician,
con un medico autorizzato,
for a work permit.
di permesso di lavoro.
for a place to live
any sort of social assistance.
tipo di assistenza.
negli ultimi anni dagli Stati Uniti
over the past few years,
che hanno bisogno di aiuto
than there are resources to help them.
non si adeguano velocemente,
fanno del loro meglio
with limited resources,
con risorse limitate,
more time waiting in limbo,
a rimanere in un limbo,
to support resettlement efforts,
per sostenere il reinsediamento,
still don't know
non sa ancora
from filling out paperwork
per la compilazione dei moduli
that this information doesn't exist.
di informazioni.
bombarded with so much information
è bombardato da così tante informazioni
to make sense of it all.
just tell me what to do,"
ditemi solo cosa devo fare",
over and over again.
it could be to get your bearings
estremamente difficile orientarsi
per la prima volta in una nazione.
when I got to Montreal,
queste difficoltà arrivato a Montreal,
himself also a refugee, put it:
del nostro team, anch'egli rifugiato:
is more important than food,
più importante del cibo,
resources and information
risorse e informazioni
between life and death.
tra la vita e la morte.
resources and information
risorse e informazioni
between life and death.
tra la vita e la morte.
a questi problemi,
di intelligenza artificiale
through your first week
durante la prima settimana
some basic questions
for resources.
all'accesso alle risorse.
a place to stay tonight?
dormire questa notte?
an all-women's shelter?
per sole donne?
a custom, step-by-step to-do list
that you need to know,
with a real person who does.
con una persona che la conosce.
and service organizations
umanitarie e di servizio
that's necessary to understand
che servono a comprendere
con il Commissariato per i rifugiati
campaigns in Arabic, English,
in arabo, inglese,
del problema dei rifugiati,
le statistiche ufficiali
displaced worldwide.
an additional 140 million people
140 milioni di persone in più
due to environmental degradation.
per problemi ambientali.
there are nearly one billion people
c'è quasi un miliardo di persone
settlements and slums.
illegali e baraccopoli.
challenges of our time.
every single newcomer an advocate.
un consigliere per ogni nuovo arrivato.
can amplify existing efforts
amplificare gli sforzi esistenti
on a social safety net
beyond imagination.
the rights and the dignity
a ridare dignità e diritti
resettlement and integration
di reinserimento e integrazione
they need in order to help themselves.
necessarie per cavarsela da soli.
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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