Fighting Poverty with Satellites and AI | VOANews

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VOA explains how satellite imagery and artificial intelligence helped the government of Togo deliver COVID-19 relief to its neediest citizens.

Satellites can see poverty from space. Artificial intelligence can see it in patterns of mobile phone data.

Together, they helped the government of Togo target aid to the neediest in the COVID-19 pandemic.

And these tools may be useful in other crises.

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Mobile phone companies : 1. Those to disable to use a mobile phone: 0.

guff
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How Abt homeless, stranded on street, u can't completely relay on these AI system, will be unfair to them..‼️

yogbaba
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You mean to tell me with all the info you obtained you still missed the poorest. Hmmm, who were those you missed?

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