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Can Technology End Poverty? - Boston Review
A ten-year-old boy named Dhyaneshwar looked up for approval after carefully typing the word “Alaska” into a PC. “Bahut acchaa!” I cheered—“very good.” It
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Combining satellite imagery and machine learning to predict poverty
The elimination of poverty worldwide is the first of 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals for the year 2030. To track progress towards this goal, we need more frequent and more reliable data on the distribution of poverty than traditional data collection methods can provide.
In this project, we propose an approach that combines machine learning with high-resolution satellite imagery to provide new data on socioeconomic indicators of poverty and wealth.
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Our recently published Science paper:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6301/790
A project website featuring poverty maps of Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, and Rwanda:
http://sustain.stanford.edu/predicting-poverty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DafZSeIGLNE
The #GlobalPOV Project: "Can Experts Solve Poverty?" With Khalid Kadir
We all have experts in our lives. Computer experts, plumbing experts, legal experts -- you name the problem, and there is someone out there who specializes in addressing that problem. Whether it's a broken car, a computer glitch, or even a broken heart - call the expert, they'll fix us right up.
So who do we call when society is broken? Who do we call when over a billion people live in poverty, unable to meet the basic requirements to sustain their lives? Or when the wealthiest 2% of the world owns 50% of the world's assets?
We call experts, of course: poverty experts. But -- who is a poverty expert, and can experts solve poverty?
The #GlobalPOV Project is a program of the Global Poverty and Practice (GPP) Minor. Based at the Blum Center for Developing Economies, University of California, Berkeley, the GPP Minor creates new ways of thinking about poverty, inequality and undertaking poverty action.
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Website: http://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/globalpov
Behind-the-Scenes Blog: http://blumcenter.berkeley.edu/global...
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GlobalPOV
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