Humanitarian AI Today

Preeti Adhikary, seasoned tech executive, startup advisor, emerging venture professional, and former Vice President of Marketing at Fusemachines, and Ahmad Tafti, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern Maine and Director of the HexAI Research Lab discuss the future of AI education with Mia Kossiavelou and Brent Phillips, producers of the Humanitarian AI Today podcast series. Preeti and Ahmad offer their thoughts on AI education, challenges facing the field and the emerging focus on opening up AI education for all, as well as investment in AI education, the relationship between education and applications, and responsibility and ethics in AI.

Tyler Radford, Executive Director of Humanitarian OpenStreetMap, speaks with Ewan Oglethorpe, Executive Director of Data Friendly Space (DFS) and co-creator of theDEEP and Brent Phillips, producer of the Humanitarian AI Today podcast series about the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap initiative, the evolution of the team and technology, artificial intelligence in the humanitarian sector and the war and mapping in Ukraine.

The podcast was recorded in Geneva at The Humanitarian Networks & Partnerships Weeks, where both Tyler and Ewan were presenting their works to the humanitarian community. Brent joined remotely from the Roux Institute in Portland, Maine.

Laura McGorman, Director of Data for Good at Meta speaks with Andrew Schroeder and Ewan Oglethorpe about data sharing for good today and in the future in the Metaverse, the types of sophisticated datasets her team makes available to researchers, humanitarian actors and others, and how Meta is collaborating with the humanitarian community around Ukraine and around improving the use and impact of data for good. Andrew Schroeder is the VP of Research and Analysis at Direct Relief and Co-Director of CrisisReady and Ewan Oglethorpe is the Executive Director of Data Friendly Space (DFS) and co-creator of theDEEP.

Juan Lavista Ferres, Chief Scientist and Lab Director at Microsoft’s AI for Good Research Lab, speaks with Humanitarian AI Today's host Sarah Spencer about how his team is aiding NGOs by leveraging data to address a variety of global humanitarian issues, and shares his thoughts on the future of data-based solutions for increasingly complex humanitarian efforts.

Jakub Parusinski, Editor at The Fix Media, speaks with Humanitarian AI Today guest host Jodi Hilton about the war and humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, the work of Ukrainian journalists and how to support them, and about journalism and crisis reporting in the AI Age.

Allison Fine and Beth Kanter speak with Humanitarian AI Today's host Mia Kossiavelou about their work advising nonprofits leaders on digital transformation. Allison and Beth have collaborated on books such as The Networked Nonprofit and The Smart Nonprofit and have written on Unlocking Generosity with Artificial Intelligence.

Jennifer Chan and Andrew Schroeder discuss the war in Ukraine and putting data to use to support humanitarian operations with Humanitarian AI Today guest hosts Natasha Freidus, Jean-Martin Bauer and Brent Phillips. Jennifer Chan is an Associate Professor and Director Of Global Emergency Medicine at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine. Andrew Schroeder, VP of Research and Analysis at Direct Relief and Co-Director of CrisisReady and Jennifer are collaborating on using human mobility data to map the displacement of refugees and internally displaced persons fleeing the war in Ukraine.

Joanna van der Merwe, a Defense Tech Fellow from The Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) speaks with Sarah Spencer about the war and escalating humanitarian crisis in Ukraine, hybrid warfare and the challenges and threats humanitarian actors face in the age of AI.

Natasha Freidus, Co-founder and CEO of NeedsList speaks with Humanitarian AI Today host Mia Kossiavelou about the evolution of NeedsList, humanitarian crises, needs reporting, and about open data sharing, futuristic humanitarian AI applications and what’s holding back advances in humanitarian applications of artificial intelligence.

Ewan Oglethorpe, Executive Director of Data Friendly Space (DFS) and co-creator of theDEEP, speaks with Mia Kossiavelou, host of the Humanitarian AI Today podcast series, about DFS and theDEEP, the Metaverse and humanitarian applications of artificial intelligence.