Feature article on GOL’s collaboration with Togo
Togo and UC Berkeley: A data science alliance to build a dynamic West African nation Forged in the crisis of COVID, a relationship between the small but innovative country and the Center for Effective Global Action has blossomed into a... Read More →
Article on GOL’s Humanitarian work in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, AI targeted aid faster, cheaper, and often more accurately than manual methods. Read the full article here: https://www.givedirectly.org/ai-targeting-bangladesh/
PhD student Emily Aiken and Prof. Blumenstock quoted in Economist article, “In poor countries, statistics are both undersupplied and underused”
“Emily Aiken of the University of California, Berkeley, and her colleagues have tested whether a machine-learning algorithm can identify the poorest households in 80 Afghan villages based on mobile-phone data, such as the duration of their calls, their network of... Read More →