Muhammed Idris: What refugees need to start new lives
Muhammed Idris: Was Flüchtlinge für den Start in ein neues Leben brauchen
Muhammed Idris wants to improve social services delivery through collective and artificial intelligence. Full bio
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30 first cousins,
der Cousin meiner Mutter
was actually my mom's cousin
in Montreal angekommen.
in Montreal as a refugee.
drei weitere asylsuchende Verwandte
coming to Canada to apply for asylum
was sie am Leib trugen, nach Kanada.
the clothes on their back.
hat sich mein Leben komplett verändert.
since that phone call,
of technologists, researchers and refugees
Forschern und Flüchtlingen,
für Neuankömmlinge entwickelt.
self-help resources for newcomers.
und andere Barrieren zu überwinden,
language, cultural and other barriers
control over their own lives.
über ihr Leben verloren zu haben.
die Rechte und Würde zurückzugeben,
the rights and the dignity
auf der Suche nach Hilfe verlieren.
meiner Familie ist nicht einzigartig.
is not unique.
20 Menschen in die Flucht getrieben --
are newly displaced
Wirtschaftskrisen
bei einem christlichen Verein,
at a local YMCA shelter
und andere Verwandte geschickt wurden,
and other relatives were sent to
eine Eingliederung erfordert.
resettlement requires.
you need to find a lawyer
zunächst einen Anwalt finden
von zwei Wochen ausfüllen.
within two weeks.
with a pre-authorized physician,
durch einen autorisierten Arzt ist nötig,
for a work permit.
beantragen zu können.
for a place to live
in Anspruch nehmen kann.
any sort of social assistance.
Flüchtlinge aus den USA,
in Kanada Asyl suchten,
over the past few years,
than there are resources to help them.
als Mittel gibt.
mehr Menschen zu helfen,
with limited resources,
verstärkt im Ungewissen
more time waiting in limbo,
an wen sie sich wenden sollen.
to support resettlement efforts,
in Eingliederungsmaßnahmen --
kostenfreien Hilfsangeboten
still don't know
bis hin zur Jobsuche.
from filling out paperwork
dass keine Informationen vorliegen.
that this information doesn't exist.
so sehr mit Infos bombardiert,
bombarded with so much information
aus ihnen schlau zu werden.
to make sense of it all.
noch mehr Informationen,
just tell me what to do,"
hörten wir immer wieder.
over and over again.
it could be to get your bearings
die Orientierung sein kann,
als ich in Montreal ankam,
when I got to Montreal,
himself also a refugee, put it:
auch Flüchtling, sagte:
is more important than food,
wichtiger als Essen,
resources and information
richtigen Mitteln und Informationen
zwischen Leben und Tod bedeuten."
between life and death.
Mitteln und Informationen
resources and information
zwischen Leben und Tod bedeuten.
between life and death.
virtuellen Anwalt,
durch die ersten Wochen
through your first week
wofür man Hilfe braucht.
einige grundsätzliche Fragen,
some basic questions
for resources.
für Hilfsmittel zu entscheiden.
a place to stay tonight?
eine Übernachtungsmöglichkeit?
an all-women's shelter?
ein Frauenhaus?
schrittweise To-Do-Liste,
a custom, step-by-step to-do list
that you need to know,
und was zu erwarten ist.
with a real person who does.
und Service-Organisationen helfen,
and service organizations
und Analysen zu sammeln,
that's necessary to understand
der Neuankömmlinge
campaigns in Arabic, English,
auf Arabisch, Englisch, Französisch,
die Flüchtlingsproblematik,
displaced worldwide.
gewaltsam vertriebenen Flüchtlinge.
die Zahlen deutlich höher.
140 Millionen Menschen Gefahr laufen,
an additional 140 million people
due to environmental degradation.
vertrieben zu werden.
there are nearly one billion people
fast eine Milliarde Menschen
settlements and slums.
sind mit die größten Herausforderungen
challenges of our time.
every single newcomer an advocate.
jedem einzelnen Neuankömmling
can amplify existing efforts
bestehende Bemühungen verstärken
on a social safety net
beyond imagination.
die Rechte und Würde wiederherzustellen,
the rights and the dignity
und Integration verlieren,
resettlement and integration
they need in order to help themselves.
um sich selbst helfen zu können.
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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