Piali Mukhopadhyay – GiveDirectly https://www.givedirectly.org Send money directly to people in need. Fri, 03 Jan 2020 20:45:14 +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 Piali Mukhopadhyay – GiveDirectly https://www.givedirectly.org 32 32 How facial identification technology could help our field ops https://www.givedirectly.org/how-facial-identification-technology-could-help-our-field-ops/ Thu, 04 Apr 2019 22:15:33 +0000 https://www.givedirectly.org/blog_post.php?id=7870714216621244535 We’re not interested in tech for the sake of tech. So, there were plenty of skeptics on the team when the possibility of integrating facial identification into our operations came up. Good for iPhones? Yes. Necessary for enrolling recipients in our program? Not obvious. The jury is still out on whether we’ll pursue it at scale, but here is why we decided to run a pilot and what we’ve learned so…

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]]> Getting our bearings in Malawi https://www.givedirectly.org/getting-our-bearings-in-malawi/ Thu, 04 Apr 2019 20:25:00 +0000 https://www.givedirectly.org/blog_post.php?id=1602255523087198295 How big are villages in Malawi? The answer, our team has been learning, is not entirely straightforward. But it matters, for two key reasons: First, the randomized control trial we are running in partnership with USAID requires us to achieve a certain sample size (i.e. number of villages), within a budget constraint. If villages are the wrong size, we risk either overspending or being…

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