Societal Resilience
Building a more resilient society through mission-driven research and applied technology
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In the news | Microsoft AI Lab
AI Lab: Synthetic Data Showcase
Sharing data from sensitive sources is critical to research but can put vulnerable data subjects at risk of being identified. We created an open-source pipeline that generates synthetic data to preserve privacy when sharing and analyzing sensitive datasets.
In the news | Microsoft News Center
Hart and Microsoft announce partnership to make elections more secure, verifiable
AUSTIN, Texas, and REDMOND, Wash. — June 3, 2021 — On Thursday, Hart InterCivic and Microsoft Corp. announced a partnership to incorporate ElectionGuard software developed by Microsoft into Hart’s Verity® voting systems. The partnership makes Hart the first major voting…
Anticipate, absorb, and adapt—introducing the societal resilience research agenda
| Peter Lee
The genetic sequence for COVID-19 was first published in January 2020. Before the end of the year, new vaccines—which typically take five to ten years to develop—were approved for emergency use in multiple nations. This astounding achievement is emblematic of…
Our goal with this project was to create a conversational chatbot to streamline the determination of vaccine eligibility in the United States, aggregating policies across regions and policy updates over time.
Case study: Tech Against Trafficking
Only through the proper coordination of partners spanning the public and private sector, coupled with the mutual evolution of technology and policy, can the human effort to combat trafficking be most effective.
How can we help organizations to understand their capacity for resilience before it is needed, and how can we help them to increase that capacity before it is too late?
In the news | Microsoft Innovation Stories
Q&A: Peter Lee on the COVID-19 pandemic, societal resilience and crisis-response science
The COVID-19 pandemic has upended every aspect of society and, at the same time, the urgent need for a response has spurred collaboration, innovation and creativity. Microsoft has created a Resilience series to highlight some of the research projects, technologies…
In the news | The Hill
Funding Black and Latinx community institutions is the key to vaccine equity
When our team at Duke Health launched a bilingual COVID-19 symptom monitoring program last March, we noticed over 90 percent of participants enrolling were white. We quickly started collaborating with nonprofit design studio IDEO.org on the question: how can we…
Advancing organizational science using network machine learning to measure innovation in the workplace
| Carolyn Buractaon, Amber Hoak, David Tittsworth, Neha Shah, and Jonathan Larson
Is innovation another loss due to the global COVID-19 pandemic? Indicators reveal challenges to overcome—as well as opportunities to build on our collective experience gained in the last year. Measuring collaboration using network machine learning provides a powerful diagnostic tool…