Crowdsourcing for Social Good

Since 2012, LISH has worked with foundations and government agencies to provide proof of concept data models for humanitarian needs. These projects helped advance solutions to problems in an increasingly digital world. LISH has received recognition for providing a bridge to connect solvers to problems, including a nomination for the Secretary of the Navy’s Innovation Award in 2018 for the Fishing for Fishermen challenge series.

Fishing for Fishermen

Sponsored by CoECI in 2016-2017, this series of challenges was to develop an algorithm to help identify and react to illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU) (see the problem statement for contest 1; problem statement for contest 2). The first contest drew in 77 competitors who submitted 1,206 submissions while competing for $18,000 in prizes. The top five competitors submitted... Read more about Fishing for Fishermen

Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention

In 2013, USAID and Humanity United tasked competitors to develop an algorithm to predict where and when atrocities would happen in the near future — within the next 30 days — based on the atrocity pre-history from the Political Instability Task Force Data and sociopolitical activities from Global Database of Events, Language, and Tone (see the problem statement). In all, 93 competitors... Read more about Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention

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