Muhammed Idris: What refugees need to start new lives
Мухаммед Идрис: Пособие по началу новой жизни для беженца
Muhammed Idris wants to improve social services delivery through collective and artificial intelligence. Full bio
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30 first cousins,
двоюродных родственников,
was actually my mom's cousin
двоюродный брат моей мамы,
in Montreal as a refugee.
в статусе беженца.
coming to Canada to apply for asylum
в Канаду в поисках убежища,
the clothes on their back.
первой необходимости.
since that phone call,
of technologists, researchers and refugees
исследователей и беженцев,
self-help resources for newcomers.
ресурсы для помощи вновь прибывшим.
language, cultural and other barriers
культурный и другие барьеры,
control over their own lives.
что потеряли контроль над своей жизнью.
the rights and the dignity
восстановить права и достоинство,
прося о помощи.
is not unique.
are newly displaced
вынуждены покидать свой дом
экономического кризиса,
at a local YMCA shelter
в местном приюте для беженцев,
and other relatives were sent to
и других моих родственников,
по достоинству ценить то,
resettlement requires.
you need to find a lawyer
необходимо найти адвоката
within two weeks.
юридические документы.
with a pre-authorized physician,
с предварительно уполномоченным врачом,
for a work permit.
для разрешения на работу.
for a place to live
any sort of social assistance.
какую-либо социальную поддержку.
бежали из США
over the past few years,
than there are resources to help them.
намного больше, чем имеющихся ресурсов.
не справляются с такими объёмами,
делают всё возможное
with limited resources,
нуждающихся людей,
more time waiting in limbo,
времени в неопределённости,
to support resettlement efforts,
выделенных на поддержку переселенцев,
still don't know
всё ещё не знают
from filling out paperwork
that this information doesn't exist.
что информация отсутствует.
bombarded with so much information
«засыпают» информацией,
to make sense of it all.
just tell me what to do,"
просто скажите, что делать», —
over and over again.
it could be to get your bearings
сложно ориентироваться,
when I got to Montreal,
проблемами, когда попал в Монреаль,
himself also a refugee, put it:
член нашей команды, тоже беженец:
is more important than food,
resources and information
ресурсам и информации
between life and death.
между жизнью и смертью.
resources and information
ресурсам и информации
between life and death.
между жизнью и смертью.
с искусственным интеллектом,
through your first week
через первую неделю
какая помощь вам нужна.
some basic questions
простых вопросов,
for resources.
вы можете получить доступ.
a place to stay tonight?
an all-women's shelter?
приют для женщин?
a custom, step-by-step to-do list
that you need to know,
можете задать ему вопрос,
with a real person who does.
у которого будет ответ.
and service organizations
гуманитарным организациям и службам
that's necessary to understand
необходимые для понимания
campaigns in Arabic, English,
кампании на арабском, английском,
и испанском языках.
на официальной статистике:
displaced worldwide.
перемещённых в мире.
an additional 140 million people
due to environmental degradation.
из-за ухудшения окружающей среды.
there are nearly one billion people
около миллиарда человек
settlements and slums.
поселениях и трущобах.
challenges of our time.
проблемам современности.
every single newcomer an advocate.
каждому вновь прибывшему адвокатом.
can amplify existing efforts
дополнить уже имеющиеся средства
on a social safety net
на системы социальной защиты,
beyond imagination.
чем можно себе представить.
the rights and the dignity
восстановить права и достоинство,
resettlement and integration
в процессе переселения и интеграции,
they need in order to help themselves.
инструментами для помощи самим себе.
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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