HNPW Session: Making IATI Data AI Ready - A Partnership Approach

Our meetup group is partnering with the Humanitarian AI meetup community and Neo4j on organizing a virtual discussion for Humanitarian Networks and Partnerships Week, a hybrid event held in Geneva gathering participants from the UN, NGOs, Member States, the private sector, academia and beyond to discuss and solve common challenges in humanitarian affairs.

On Friday, March 21st from 18:00-20:00 CET we will report on how volunteers, humanitarian actors and private sector technology companies are coming together to study ways of aggregating and loading aid activity information streaming through IATI’s open data sharing framework into a graph database tailored for use by emerging AI applications.

Humanitarian AI members will provide an overview on the project, Neo4j staff will elaborate on data loading and technical challenges and showcase how the IATI graph can be queried, while staff from the International Rescue Committee’s Signpost AI lab will outline possible database use cases based on Signpost’s work and experimentation with AI applications. Other guests will talk about their related work and offer input on the project. Notably, Amy Hodler, founder of the GraphGeeks forum, and James Haithcoat representing the NASA Lifelines initiative will participate in the discussion.

The interactive session will showcase how teams and individuals are coming together to discuss IATI and work on tackling complex challenges associated with making IATI data accessible to consumer grade AI applications operating at scale.

The session can be viewed on the HNPW website here: https://vosocc.unocha.org/Report.aspx?page=o0t9pExuBwO6B8fFbsqXtYaNeR5D2xxxslashxsrV9Qv726wyKMbirxfT7CNQxxxequalxxxequal