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The Tech Challenge For Atrocity Prevention - via SciDevNet

Algorithms that use existing socio-political data to predict when are where future mass atrocities might happen could soon inform governments and NGOs to take preventative measures. The algorithms were developed by the participants of the Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention, a competition run by the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and NGO Humanity United. 

The competition started from the premise that certain social and political measurements are linked to increased likelihood of atrocities. The algorithms use sociopolitical indicators and data on past atrocities as their inputs. The data was drawn from archives such as the Global Database of Events, Language and Tone, a data set that encodes more than 200 million globally newsworthy events, recording cultural information such as the people involved, their location and any religious connections.