Sociotech in practice: developing AI solutions to tackle societal challenges
What does it mean to adopt a sociotech approach to design and develop AI solutions aimed at tackling complex societal challenges? For Baxter and Sommerville, this means that the “underlying premise of socio-technical thinking is that systems design should be a process that takes into account both social and technical factors that influence the functionality […]
First responders, borders, and data – can shared data help build a more coordinated response to crises and disasters?
Disasters and crises often have an international, if not a global impact. Management of these crises involves the coordination of a number of organizations and authorities across countries. For this coordination, interoperability is key. This is the ability for a range of actors to share and understand strategies, processes, technology, and data used by each […]
CESIUM: Innovation in child safeguarding – An interdisciplinary journey
Child exploitation (CE) is a complex societal problem – there are many moving parts, many points of failure, and many vulnerabilities. Child exploitation includes, but is not limited to, child labour, forced begging, engagement in criminal activities and child prostitution and is often visible in cases of gang membership, “county lines” exploitation, human trafficking and […]
Exploring political bias in false information spread on social media
Social media has become a key source of online news consumption. However, at the same time, social media users are not passive news consumers. They can further distribute online information to their networks and beyond. It is easy then to understand how information that is not always factual or information that promotes hate and violence […]
Digging deep: The picture beneath the data on human trafficking
Initiatives to bring and use data in local government are emerging all around us. Calls for tenders, discussions in webinars and all-night hackathons are all deriving ways to use data to support better decision making around societal problems. Such problems that councils, townhalls and municipalities must deal with because they deeply affect their areas. How […]
Tackling child exploitation – Join the CESIUM webinar
We are delighted to announce that Trilateral Research, Lincolnshire Police and The NWG will be holding a free webinar on March 24 and March 25 to demonstrate the development of CESIUM, our cutting-edge partnership tool to tackle child exploitation and offer early intervention opportunities. The CESIUM application will be presented and demonstrated at two identical webinars […]
Unprotected children fighting adults’ wars
As part of our work in Human Security and Human Rights we study and unpack issues such as Human Trafficking. In this guest blog, Laura Bakx provides a valuable insight on gaps within the international legal framework prohibiting the use of child soldiers and its impact on the protection of children. Despite the plethora of […]
Enhancing analytical capability to support safeguarding professionals in tackling child exploitation – interview with Jon Betts, CESIUM application project manager
Jon Betts is the lead for public sector at Trilateral Research and has been developing the CESIUM application within Trilateral’s STRIAD cloud platform from concept stage through to production and delivery phases as the Project Manager. In this interview, we discuss the challenges that CESIUM solution will tackle and its impact as a game-changer in […]
Develop better early intervention strategies to combat child exploitation – interview with Sheila Taylor MBE, CEO of NWG Network
In this interview with Sheila Taylor MBE, the CEO of NWG Network, we discuss how Project CESIUM supports a better understanding of risks and develops early intervention strategies to combat child exploitation (CE). What is NWG? The NWG is a charitable exploitation organisation that is working in partnership with Trilateral Research and Lincolnshire Police to […]
The Role of Data in AI: Report for the Data Governance Working Group of the Global Partnership of AI
This is the final report of the project The Role of Data in AI, which was commissioned by the Data Governance Working Group (WG) of the Global Partnership of AI (GPAI). The overarching aim of the project was to highlight and describe the role of data in AI development processes and identify key challenges related […]
