Back to the Blog Citibeats is proud to join and support IDB Lab, the innovation laboratory of the Inter-American Development Bank Group, the leading source of financing for improving lives in Latin America and the Caribbean, in a bioeconomic project designed to foster the financial, social, cultural and environmental growth of the Amazon basin area. …
Back to the Blog The COVID-19 pandemic is a health crisis that has claimed the lives of nearly 4 million people worldwide. But this is not the only emergency we are facing as humanity. A WHO report points out that misinformation may generate the next crisis. From home remedies, self-medication, healing potions, anti-vaccine and conspiracy theories, among other hoaxes, disinformation …
Back to the Blog It seems clear that the Covid-19 pandemic has created great challenges in the life and governance of our cities. However, these challenges are not the same for all the inhabitants of Latin America and the Caribbean. The pandemic has hit the most vulnerable in particular. A part of the population of our …
How can Artificial Intelligence give a voice to vulnerable populations? Read More »
Back to the Blog The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has presented the conclusions of a study carried out thanks to the citizen observatory of ethical Artificial Intelligence CivicLytics in collaboration with Citibeats. By analyzing hundreds of thousands of comments from citizens on Twitter, forums, blogs, and digital media, the study seeks to understand people’s concerns …
Back to the Blog Migration is contentious issue, as it often leads to xenophobic behavior that is detrimental to social cohesion. It’s an issue that Latin America and the Caribbean have been forcefully confronted with over the last five years, primarily driven by the more than 5 million Venezuelans who have been displaced from their …
Back to the Blog It’s well known that last year inflicted upon us the greatest unanticipated risk of our generation. We can only expect that the coming year will result in after-shocks that will be felt worldwide, creating disruptions across business sectors. Social risks are often at the root of disruptions that later play out …
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Back to the Blog The United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Educational Organization (UNESCO) and Citibeats, an ethical artificial intelligence platform that focuses on the analysis of social data, announce a collaboration to curb misinformation about COVID- 19 in the Dominican Republic. The initiative was launched to make an analysis of public misconceptions …
Back to the Blog As companies and governments become more data-driven, there is one big problem: are they designing the world for men? The gender data gap refers to the fact that men are overrepresented in much of the data that organizations are using to take decisions. While Invisible Women (Criado-Perez) demonstrates how this bias …
Back to the Blog From the outset, Citibeats was founded on the belief that the application of Artificial Intelligence – and all of its immense power – is meant for benefitting society and making the world a better place. One of the pillars of our commitment to deliver ethical AI is that the Citibeats platform …
Project in collaboration with the Fundación ONCE about accessibility barriers Read More »
Back to the Blog Beyond tracing, testing and contagion of the immediate health crisis we are facing, there is high uncertainty on what will be the social and economic effects on people. The ‘second epidemic’ will see varied and fast-changing social needs across countries, and we are looking to help governments be highly responsive in …
Collective intelligence on social needs during COVID 19 Read More »
