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How can innovators leverage technology to improve and scale resources for survivors of modern slavery?

Supporting Survivors of Modern Slavery Challenge

Closed

Submissions are closed

Timeline

  • Applications Open

    May 1, 2024 9:00am EDT
  • Solution Deadline

    July 8, 2024 1:00pm EDT
  • Challenge Close [Extended Deadline!]

    July 8, 2024 1:00pm EDT
  • Solution Review

    July 22, 2024 11:59pm EDT
  • Semi-Finalists Under Review

    August 5, 2024 11:59pm EDT
  • Finalists Under Review

    September 8, 2024 11:59pm EDT

Challenge Overview

Over 50 million people are trapped in modern slavery worldwide, with women and children disproportionately affected. One in three human trafficking victims are children under the age of 18. While survivors include individuals of all ages and backgrounds, exploitation is more prevalent among migrants and those with lower socioeconomic status. Eighty percent of survivors are re-victimized if they do not have a safe place to go. While many groups are working to educate about and mitigate the risks of modern slavery and forced labor, improved solutions to provide resources and access to support are needed for survivors to thrive in society. 

Survivors of modern slavery face tremendous challenges in their efforts to rebuild their lives including alienation, lack of basic documents, and limited access to financial resources, shelter, and viable employment opportunities. Ethically designed and deployed technology, such as AI, has the potential to enable greater efficiencies, increase impact, and drive better solutions to the world’s most complex challenges. Yet, there is still a lack of support for scalable and tech-focused solutions and the organizations that provide services to survivors of modern slavery. 

Organizations across the world are innovatively leveraging technology and scaling resources to support survivors of modern slavery as they rebuild their lives and reintegrate into society – resources such as bank accounts and credit, affordable housing, childcare, trauma-informed health care, and career placement. We know that effective change requires not just support for individual solutions, but support for a thriving ecosystem of innovators united in a common purpose. 

This Challenge seeks exceptional solutions for and by survivors that leverage ethical technology – like AI – to improve and scale critical resources by: 

  • Bettering existing resources for legal, financial, physical, psychological, and social well-being  

  • Improving access to, and awareness of, critical survivor resources 

  • Strengthening the ecosystem of providers by enhancing efficiencies in communication, data collection and sharing, and coordination 

  • Training and supporting existing organizations and agencies in ways to reach out to and appropriately work with survivors.

Solutions

Selected

Story Mobile App

By Jessica Minhas
Jessica Minhas
Selected

Golden Dreams

By Lisa Rende Taylor
Lisa Rende Taylor Ana Maria  Soto Bernal
Selected

EverFree’s Freedom Lifemap

By Kelsey Morgan
Kelsey Morgan Hailey Barth
Selected

HT Fusion Center

By Rochelle Keyhan
Rochelle  Keyhan
Selected

ALIGHT: Mobilizing Justice

By Marianna Kosharovsky
Marianna Kosharovsky
Finalist

AttAIn

By Quintin Lake
Quintin Lake Phillip Clayton
Finalist

Mending Circle (MeCi)

By Tinia Apergi
Tinia Apergi Theo Theoharis
Finalist

SAFEHELP AI-POWERED APP

By Chioma Favour Uzoma
Chioma Favour  Uzoma Favour Ogedegbe Esther Amos Uchechi Ude
Finalist

AnnieCannons

By Laura Hackney
Laura Hackney
Finalist

Infrared

By Allison Cohen
Allison Cohen
Finalist

GLOW

By Diep Vuong
Diep Vuong
Submitted

Chatbot Sophia

By Rhiana Spring
Rhiana Spring
Submitted

Hybrid Survivor Support System

By Alemneh Tadele
Alemneh Tadele
Submitted

Justice Equality & Empowerment

By Smeeta K
Smeeta K Wally Meets Hari Suvarchala G Jeanny Lee Vanlalruat  Guite Neeta Khandalkar
Submitted

Pathways to Freedom

By Rantiade Idahosa
Rantiade Idahosa

Judges

Andrew Wallis

Andrew Wallis

Unseen, Chief Executive Officer
Adriana-Eufrosina Bora

Adriana-Eufrosina Bora

Mariam Onyachi

Mariam Onyachi

Azadi Community, Program Manager, Survivor Leadership and Advocacy Portfolio
Phil Bennett

Phil Bennett

Independent Anti-trafficking Technology Consultant
Hasina Kharbhih

Hasina Kharbhih

Impulse NGO Network, Founder & Chairperson
Eugenie

Eugenie

The Anti-Slavery Collective, Co-Founder
Julia de Boinville

Julia de Boinville

The Anti-Slavery Collective, Co-Founder
Jason Newman

Jason Newman

Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Vice President, Corporate Affairs
Rosi Orozco

Rosi Orozco

Kaleido Inc, Former Congresswoman & Volunteer
Ryan Berg

Ryan Berg

Aruna Project, Co-Founder & CEO
Philippa Southwell

Philippa Southwell

Southwell & Partners, Modern Slavery Lawyer + Managing Director
Jasmine O'Connor

Jasmine O'Connor

Anti-Slavery International, CEO
Taina Bien-Aimé

Taina Bien-Aimé

Coalition Against Trafficking in Women, Executive Director