On any given day, tens of millions of people find themselves trapped in instances of modern slavery. The Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is organizing a visioning workshop, in collaboration with Code 8.7, on March 3-4th, 2020 in Washington, DC that will bring together members of the computing research community along with anti-slavery practitioners and survivors to lay out a research roadmap aimed at applying AI to the fight against human trafficking. Building on the kickoff Code 8.7 conference held at the UN in February 2019, the focus for this event will be to link the ambitious goals outlined in the 20-Year Community Roadmap for AI Research to challenges vital in […]
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The goal of the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) is to catalyze the computing research community to debate longer range, more audacious research challenges; to build consensus around research visions; to evolve the most promising visions toward clearly defined initiatives; and to work with the funding organizations to move challenges and visions toward funding initiatives. The purpose of this blog is to provide a more immediate, online mechanism for dissemination of visioning concepts and community discussion/debate about them.
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CCC / Code 8.7 Workshop on Applying AI in the Fight Against Modern Slavery
January 22nd, 2020 / in AI, Announcements, CCC, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Helen WrightCode 8.7: Towards a Pipeline – Technology, Techniques and Training
May 1st, 2019 / in Announcements, pipeline / by Khari DouglasThe following blog post was contributed by Nadya Bliss (Director, the Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University & CCC Council Member) and is reposted from the Delta 8.7 website. You can view the original post here. Advances in computational science and artificial intelligence offer opportunities to advance Target 8.7 of the Sustainable Development Goals, but the anti-trafficking community must first establish some core building blocks that can serve as the foundation upon which new technologies can be developed and shared. Simply throwing flashy new tech at the problem is neither strategic nor effective. Key components of this foundation include a shared strategy, a common infrastructure that allows for better and […]
Code 8.7: How We Can Advance Collaborative Problem Solving
April 12th, 2019 / in Announcements, policy, research horizons, Research News / by Khari DouglasThe following blog is reposted from the Delta 8.7 website. You can view the original post here. Contributions by: James Cockayne | Project Director – Delta 8.7 Nadya Bliss | Director, the Global Security Initiative at Arizona State University Doreen Boyd | Head of the Rights Lab’s Data Programme, University of Nottingham Hannah Darnton | Programme Manager in Ethics, Technology and Human Rights, BSR Ann Drobnis | Director, the Computing Community Consortium James Goulding | Deputy Director of N-LAB, the University of Nottingham Daniel Lopresti | Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Lehigh University Anjali Mazumder | Rutherford Fellow, the Alan Turing Institute of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Zoe Trodd | Director of the Rights Lab, the University of Nottingham Code 8.7: How […]
NSF Dear Colleague Letter: Disrupting Operations of Illicit Supply Networks
April 2nd, 2019 / in AI, Announcements, big science, NSF / by Khari DouglasThe National Science Foundation (NSF) has released a Dear Colleague Letter (DCL) calling for proposals “to the Operations Engineering program into operational methods to discover, disrupt and disable illicit supply networks,” such as those that enable human trafficking and the sale of illegal weapons, drugs, and animals. While this call is lead by the NSF’s Engineering Directorate, proposals will require expertise in social and computational science and the DCL includes NSF’s Directorates for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) and Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). Related to this fight against illicit supply networks, the Computing Community Consortium (CCC) recently cosponsored the Code 8.7: Using Computation Science and AI to […]
Catalyzing Computing Podcast – Code 8.7: Using Computation Science and AI to End Modern Slavery
March 18th, 2019 / in Announcements, podcast / by Khari DouglasA new episode of the Catalyzing Computing podcast is out now. In this episode Khari Douglas interviews CCC Council Members Dan Lopresti (Lehigh University), Nadya Bliss (Arizona State), and James Cockayne (Centre for Policy Research at UN University) following the Code 8.7: Using Computation Science and AI to End Modern Slavery conference, which was co-sponsored by the Computing Community Consortium (CCC), United Nations University Centre for Policy Research, The Alan Turing Institute, Tech Against Trafficking, University of Nottingham Rights Lab, and Arizona State University Global Security Initiative. Code 8.7 brought together computer science researchers and technologists with policy researchers, law enforcement officials, and activists involved in the fight against human trafficking. Stream the episode below or listen through iTunes | Spotify | Stitcher | Google Play and subscribe […]
