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Targeting Direct Cash Transfers to the Extremely Poor
Published on Oct 07, 20142384 Views
Unconditional cash transfers to the extreme poor via mobile telephony represent a radical, new approach to giving. GiveDirectly is a non-governmental organization (NGO) at the vanguard of delivering t
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Targeting Direct Cash Transfers to the Extremely Poor00:00
The DataKind DataCorps00:22
GiveDirectly is an NGO at the vanguard of delivering unconditional cash transfers via mobile telephony to reduce poverty.00:56
GiveDirectly takes an end-to-end operations model and does not outsource or subcontract work to other organizations.01:31
A key step in operations is the selection of extremely poor villages.02:05
Thatched//Metal02:59
Thatched//Metal03:46
Use image processing and machine learning to estimate the proportion of thatched roofs in a village.04:20
Crowdsource training data labeling.04:54
Template matching.06:48
Color histograms.08:25
Learn predictive model to estimate number of roofs and proportion metal in image patches.08:48
Number of roofs09:34
Number of roofs10:22
Piloted in February to select 50 Kenyan villages in GiveDirectly’s largest campaign thus far.11:12
Future work12:04
Thank you!13:30