Real-time event and risk detection company Dataminr Inc. today announced its 2024 tranche of AI for Good partners that aim to turn compelling ideas with social impact into tailored artificial intelligence solutions.

The 2024 AI for Good partners include the Danish Refugee Council, Data Friend Space and Mnemonic.

Founded in 2022, Dataminr’s AI for Good program partners with social good organizations to develop tailored AI solutions that drive transformational impact for people and the planet. Through the program, Dataminr’s AI scientists collaborate with nongovernmental organizations and multilateral organizations to address complex humanitarian challenges, such as enhancing data analysis for humanitarian response and processing multimedia content to support human rights investigations. Following a competitive process, two projects were selected for development this year.

The first project involves Dataminr collaborating with the Danish Refugee Council and Data Friendly Space to enhance the Data Entry and Exploration Platform. Through the integration of user feedback, Dataminr is aiming to develop personalized tagging recommendations and improve data analysis outcomes.

DEEP is a collaborative tool designed for humanitarian analysts that facilitates knowledge-sharing across the sector. The platform has more than 6,000 users in 90 countries and enables the rapid analysis of reports, such as situation assessments from various entities responding to humanitarian crises.

Humanitarian organizations use DEEP to swiftly process reports, such as situation reports and needs assessments, from multiple entities involved in crisis response. The analysis provides a more complete understanding of the operational context, informing and enhancing response efforts.

The second project sees Dataminr partnering with Mnemonic to process multimodal data, including photographs and videos, to label content linked to human rights violations, such as explosions and shootings. Mnemonic’s digital archive contains millions of data pieces critical for prosecuting war crimes and addressing violations of international law.

Through leveraging Dataminr’s AI capabilities, the project aims to streamline the processing and categorization of this vast dataset. The effort will allow human rights lawyers to more efficiently identify and access evidence crucial to their investigations and, in doing so, advance justice and accountability efforts.

“This year, we are focused on force-multiplication,” Sirene Abou-Chakra, director of Dataminr’s Social Innovation Lab, commented on the choice of projects. “We have selected two incredible partners who have built digital tools that support not only their own work but the efforts of organizations across the human rights and humanitarian sectors.”

The 2024 project announcements follow in the footsteps of AI for Good partners from 2023, who made strides in addressing critical challenges.

The 2023 participants included Insecurity Insight, which used AI to automate the detection of attacks on food systems, while the United Nations Development Programme enhanced its ability to identify inter-communal and gender-based violence. The third project from last year saw Ushahidi collaborate with Dataminr to improve the categorization of crowdsourced data to deliver faster and more efficient communication with impacted communities.

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