Learn Fighting Human Trafficking
Human trafficking, the narcotics merchandise too weapons smuggling all accept 1 major affair inwards common: Their ill-gotten proceeds feed conflict, instability too repression worldwide. Out of all of these, human trafficking is maybe the well-nigh devastating, enslaving nearly 21 meg people too generating at to the lowest degree $32 billion of illicit profits every year. At final summer's Google Ideas summit on mapping, disrupting too exposing illicit networks, it became clear that connecting anti-trafficking helplines inwards a global information sharing collaboration could assistance position illicit patterns too furnish victims anywhere inwards the globe with to a greater extent than effective support. Today, Polaris Project, Liberty Asia, too La Strada International are receiving a $3 meg Global Impact Award from Google to do merely that. Building on our 2011 grants, this brings our total commitment to anti-trafficking efforts to $14.5 million.
Global Impact Awards back upwards nonprofits that purpose applied scientific discipline to launch disruptive solutions inwards their sector. We launched the Global Impact Awards plan final Dec to fund novel ideas with a potential for huge scale. And at the Google Ideas INFO summit over the summer, nosotros brought together technologists, leaders, too those with unique personal experiences — including onetime weapons brokers too survivors of domestic too international human trafficking — to await at illicit networks too their defining obstacles. By connecting technologists too experts with those who sympathise too accept lived through trafficking situations, our give-and-take centered unopen to a commutation question: What if local, national, too regional anti-trafficking helplines across the globe were all connected inwards a data-driven network that helped disrupt the spider web of human trafficking?
Since the summit, we’ve worked with Polaris Project, Liberty Asia too La Strada International to brand this concept a reality. These organizations be to furnish vital assistance to victims inwards bespeak across the United States, the Mekong Delta part too Europe. Now, working across borders, this novel Global Human Trafficking Hotline Network volition collect information from local hotline efforts, portion promising practices too do anti-trafficking strategies that educate on mutual patterns too focus on eradication, prevention too victim protection. To heighten the participating organizations' might to ameliorate share, analyze too deed upon their information inwards existent time, Palantir Technologies volition expand on its existing human relationship with Polaris Project past times donating its information integration too analytics platform for this project. In addition, Salesforce.com supports Polaris Project's hotline middle too is helping scale their telephone phone tracking infrastructure internationally.
Together, these partners volition non alone live able to assistance to a greater extent than trafficking survivors, but volition equally good motion the global conversation forrad past times dramatically increasing the amount of useful information beingness shared. Appropriate information tin flame state the anti-trafficking community which campaigns are well-nigh effective at reducing slavery, what sectors are undergoing global spikes inwards slavery, or if the reduction of slavery inwards 1 dry reason coincides with an increment correct across the border.
In the U.S., Polaris Project has collected information from over 72,000 hotline calls, helping local too national anti-trafficking communities ameliorate sympathise the dynamics of the crime. No such actionable hotline database has existed globally — but it doesn’t bespeak to live that way. Clear international strategies, increased cooperation, too appropriate information sharing alongside anti-trafficking organizations volition assistance victims, prevention efforts, too audio policymaking. Slavery tin flame live stopped. Let's teach to it.
Global Impact Awards back upwards nonprofits that purpose applied scientific discipline to launch disruptive solutions inwards their sector. We launched the Global Impact Awards plan final Dec to fund novel ideas with a potential for huge scale. And at the Google Ideas INFO summit over the summer, nosotros brought together technologists, leaders, too those with unique personal experiences — including onetime weapons brokers too survivors of domestic too international human trafficking — to await at illicit networks too their defining obstacles. By connecting technologists too experts with those who sympathise too accept lived through trafficking situations, our give-and-take centered unopen to a commutation question: What if local, national, too regional anti-trafficking helplines across the globe were all connected inwards a data-driven network that helped disrupt the spider web of human trafficking?
Since the summit, we’ve worked with Polaris Project, Liberty Asia too La Strada International to brand this concept a reality. These organizations be to furnish vital assistance to victims inwards bespeak across the United States, the Mekong Delta part too Europe. Now, working across borders, this novel Global Human Trafficking Hotline Network volition collect information from local hotline efforts, portion promising practices too do anti-trafficking strategies that educate on mutual patterns too focus on eradication, prevention too victim protection. To heighten the participating organizations' might to ameliorate share, analyze too deed upon their information inwards existent time, Palantir Technologies volition expand on its existing human relationship with Polaris Project past times donating its information integration too analytics platform for this project. In addition, Salesforce.com supports Polaris Project's hotline middle too is helping scale their telephone phone tracking infrastructure internationally.
Together, these partners volition non alone live able to assistance to a greater extent than trafficking survivors, but volition equally good motion the global conversation forrad past times dramatically increasing the amount of useful information beingness shared. Appropriate information tin flame state the anti-trafficking community which campaigns are well-nigh effective at reducing slavery, what sectors are undergoing global spikes inwards slavery, or if the reduction of slavery inwards 1 dry reason coincides with an increment correct across the border.
In the U.S., Polaris Project has collected information from over 72,000 hotline calls, helping local too national anti-trafficking communities ameliorate sympathise the dynamics of the crime. No such actionable hotline database has existed globally — but it doesn’t bespeak to live that way. Clear international strategies, increased cooperation, too appropriate information sharing alongside anti-trafficking organizations volition assistance victims, prevention efforts, too audio policymaking. Slavery tin flame live stopped. Let's teach to it.