Jun 15, 2023 | Humanitarian Agencies, Humanitarian AI, Social Impact, Technology, WhatsApp
Think about the way Facebook recognizes your friends’ faces when you upload a photo. To do it, computers had to learn to see like us, to understand and interpret what’s going on in a picture or video. This is called computer vision—a part of the larger...
Feb 12, 2023 | Humanitarian Agencies, Research Universities, WhatsApp
Research on Humanitarian WhatsApp Surveys: An Overview of Papers and Reports We all know WhatsApp as an easy-to-use chat app. But did you know that WhatsApp also plays an increasing role in research and humanitarian projects? For a couple of years now, universities...
Jan 27, 2023 | Humanitarian Agencies, Social Impact, Technology
6 Examples How Humanitarian AI Increases Impact Around the World As the ChatGPT news makes the round, articles pop up discussing what role similar AI tools can play in the humanitarian sector. However, while ChatGPT might be the new shiny tool that made the news,...
Nov 27, 2022 | Humanitarian Agencies, Monitoring and Evaluation, Social Impact
How do you make sure that your intervention actually benefits the constituents you’re trying to serve? How do you make sure that it has maximum impact? These and related questions usually have one answer: M&E—Monitoring and evaluation. Recently, USAID—that...
Jun 27, 2022 | IVR (interactive Voice Response), Market Research, SMS, Surveys
With social media all the buzz traditional mobile technology doesn’t always get the limelight, particularly in high-income, highly industrialized countries. Yes, you can and should consider chat bots built with WhatsApp and other chat technologies—that’s...
