Human Rights Technology
Helping communities take evidence-based action in the fight against human rights violations
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Empowering NGOs with generative AI in the fight against human trafficking
| Darren Edge, Ha Trinh, and Dayenne Souza
Intelligence Toolkit was built to help fight human trafficking and is applicable to a broad range of societal challenges. Learn how Microsoft researchers worked with global experts to develop generative AI tools that could help tackle urgent issues at scale.
IOM and Microsoft release first-ever differentially private synthetic dataset to counter human trafficking
Microsoft is home to a diverse team of researchers focused on supporting a healthy global society, including finding ways technology can address human rights problems affecting the most vulnerable populations around the world. With a multi-disciplinary background in human-computer interaction, data…
Real-world evidence and the path from data to impact
| Darren Edge and Jonathan Larson
From the intense shock of the COVID-19 pandemic to the effects of climate change, our global society has never faced greater risk. The Societal Resilience team at Microsoft Research was established in recognition of this risk and tasked with developing open technologies that enable a scalable response in times of crisis. And just…