Nirali Desai and Vera Lummis – GiveDirectly https://www.givedirectly.org Send money directly to people in need. Tue, 28 Jan 2025 15:29:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.givedirectly.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-GiveDirectly-Square-Logo-Green-Black-32x32.png Nirali Desai and Vera Lummis – GiveDirectly https://www.givedirectly.org 32 32 How to explain AI/ML across the digital divide https://www.givedirectly.org/explain_ai/ Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:54:28 +0000 https://www.givedirectly.org/?p=16043 When a crisis hits a low-income country, aid groups often struggle to quickly find and help those most in need because governments have incomplete or outdated information on their citizens (‘social registries’). This is why GiveDirectly has used mobile phone metadata and AI to predict people’s level of need and send them emergency cash quickly—often 4-8x faster than conventional aid.

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