How AI helped deliver cash aid to many of the poorest people in Togo
- Written by Emily Aiken, Doctoral Student of Information, University of California, Berkeley
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Governments and humanitarian groups can use machine learning algorithms and mobile phone data to get aid to those who need it most during a humanitarian crisis, we found in...
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