Muhammed Idris: What refugees need to start new lives
محمد ادریس: پناهندگان برای شروع زندگی تازه به چه چیزی نیاز دارند؟
Muhammed Idris wants to improve social services delivery through collective and artificial intelligence. Full bio
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که زندگیام را تغییر داد.
30 first cousins,
was actually my mom's cousin
پسرعموی مادرم است
in Montreal as a refugee.
به مونترال آمده.
coming to Canada to apply for asylum
درخواست پناهندگی به کانادا آمدند
the clothes on their back.
since that phone call,
of technologists, researchers and refugees
محققان و پناهندگان را رهبری میکنم
self-help resources for newcomers.
را برای تازهواردان فراهم میکند.
language, cultural and other barriers
زبانی، فرهنگی و غیره غلبه کنند
control over their own lives.
زندگیشان را از دست دادهاند.
the rights and the dignity
به احیای حقوق و منزلتی کمک کند
کمک از دست میدهند.
is not unique.
منحصر به فرد نیست.
سازمان ملل
are newly displaced
بحرانهای اقتصادی
at a local YMCA shelter
اسکانهای محلی YMCA
and other relatives were sent to
فرستاده شده بودند
resettlement requires.
و هماهنگی نیاز دارد.
you need to find a lawyer
باید یک وکیل پیدا کنید
within two weeks.
مدارک قانونی را کامل کنید.
with a pre-authorized physician,
از پزشکان از قبل مشخص شده وقت بگیرید،
for a work permit.
for a place to live
any sort of social assistance.
کمک اجتماعی دریافت کنید.
over the past few years,
طی چند سال اخیر،
than there are resources to help them.
از منابع کمکرسانی بیشتر است.
with limited resources,
more time waiting in limbo,
to support resettlement efforts,
حمایت از اسکان مجدد،
still don't know
تازهواردان هنوز نمیدانند
from filling out paperwork
ار پر کردن فرم گرفته
that this information doesn't exist.
bombarded with so much information
با اطلاعات بسیار زیاد سر در گم میشوند
to make sense of it all.
just tell me what to do,"
فقط بگو باید چکار کنم،»
over and over again.
it could be to get your bearings
یافتن جای خود سخت است
when I got to Montreal,
مونترال شدم چقدر با همین مسائل درگیر بودم،
himself also a refugee, put it:
پناهنده است، اینطورعنوان میکند:
is more important than food,
resources and information
به منابع و اطلاعات درست
between life and death.
resources and information
به منابع و اطلاعات درست
between life and death.
through your first week
راهنماییتان میکند.
some basic questions
for resources.
برای دسترسی به منابع تعیین کند.
a place to stay tonight?
an all-women's shelter?
کاملا زنانه را ترجیح میدهید؟
a custom, step-by-step to-do list
و مرحله به مرحله تولید میکند
that you need to know,
به شما میگوید،
with a real person who does.
متصل میشوید که پاسخ را میداند.
and service organizations
و انساندوستانه کمک میکنیم
that's necessary to understand
پناهندگان همکاری میکنیم
campaigns in Arabic, English,
راه انداختهلیم.
displaced worldwide.
در سرتاسر دنیا جا به جا شدهاند.
an additional 140 million people
due to environmental degradation.
تخریب محیط زیست خواهند بود.
there are nearly one billion people
تقریبا یک میلیارد نفر
settlements and slums.
challenges of our time.
every single newcomer an advocate.
هرکدام از تازهواردان یک حامی فراهم کند.
can amplify existing efforts
تلاشهای فعلی را بیشتر کند
on a social safety net
اجتماعی را کاهش دهد
beyond imagination.
آسیب بسیار زیادی خورده.
the rights and the dignity
به احیای حقوق و منزلتی
resettlement and integration
و جذب شدن در جامعه از دست میدهند
they need in order to help themselves.
کمک به خود نیاز دارند.
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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