[liberationtech] Elgorithm Intro: AI For Social Good

[Rand Strauss]

What does this mean?

> Elgorithm’s platform receives outsourced work involving training data from tech companies

What are the APIs?
-r

> On Aug 29, 2019, at 8:53 AM, Yosem Companys <ycompanys at gmail.com> wrote:
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> From: Luma Makari <lumamakari at gmail.com <mailto:lumamakari at gmail.com>>
> 
> I wanted to introduce you to Elgorithm <http://elgorithm.org/>, a social enterprise to lift Syrian and Palestinian refugees out of poverty by connecting them to the digital global job market. Elgorithm’s platform receives outsourced work involving training data from tech companies. Access to such work creates a wide scale social impact <https://www.elgorithm.org/our-impact> that provides our beneficiaries with life-sustaining income; with flow-on benefits of economic growth in local communities, as well as enhanced health and wellbeing outcomes and reduced poverty. 
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> We employ the latest digital trends such as AI and Blockchain to develop tech-driven solutions to humanitarian issues, such as the Refugee Crisis, to empower the displaced population, which has resulted in 2 million individuals living in poverty in Lebanon.
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> Our mission is to empower the refugee community by providing access to opportunities of technology, and increase the digital participation of underserved populations where we train and certify skilled labor to deliver high quality trained data. 
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> I was hoping to get your advice on how to receive a steady flow of outsourced work from tech companies, in the AI realm, involving training data to further Elgorithm’s social mission. 
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> All the best, 
> Luma 
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