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Understanding Gender Inclusion to Promote Equality

Around the world, women experience discrimination, inequality, and mistreatment in their public and private lives. This presents major human rights implications. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO): “For women to be able to fully exercise their human rights, gender perspectives have to be mainstreamed in all inclusive urban policies.”

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Data Analytics to Improve Public Deliberation in Colombia

Current Context

The management of the COVID-19 crisis reversed the country's socio-economic progress. One of the most affected groups has been the Colombian youth. Difficulties such as school dropouts, the lack of policies that promote their labor income, the sustained fall in occupied youth, and the general increase in unemployment rates have generated feelings of hopelessness, reflected in:

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Developing Models With Low Resources

Every day, our data science team tackles challenges to improve our product. To give you insight into the process, we will describe the development of our multilingual complaint detector for social media texts and explain how we solved implementation issues.

*DISCLAIMER* We tried to limit technical language to make this article approachable to a wider audience. 

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How Artificial Intelligence Gives a Voice to Vulnerable Migrant Populations

The COVID-19 pandemic has created countless challenges in the life and governance of cities. However, these challenges are not the same for all the inhabitants of Latin America and the Caribbean. The pandemic has hit the most vulnerable in particular. Migrants are exposed to the impacts of the pandemic through their work on the front line as well as vulnerabilities related to housing conditions, poverty, and discrimination.

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