Big data site helps groups assist homeless people
The most vulnerable do need help.
It will help identify areas where homeless and in-need locals are struggling to find help. The idea is indeed to connect service providers with those who need support with housing, a meal, money help, health and well being services, support as well as counseling and much more.
The new open data platform will make use of anonymous, location-based search data to find where people are looking for support in areas where services are lacking.
Big data site helps groups assist homeless people
- The idea is to make better decisions and drive better outcomes for people who do need support.
- Services are provided for mobile laundry and shower services to people experiencing homelessness that have made use of the platform to understand where their vans are most needed.
- Efforts are also on to better understand the needs of the people they are helping.
- The ideas are to become more informed and also to provide the opportunity for volunteers to better support friends.
- Information and technology can also better connect people with the community and to use the data to help friends in need.
- These technologies do decide who gets public services and who are denied public services. The idea is to monitor and police the most marginalized people in the society.
- Data-based technologies have changed the way public services are indeed managed.
- Technologies are meant to produce the results that are required.
- And marginalized groups are indeed more exposed to this system of surveillance precisely because they do need to access the benefits and programs.
- The idea is to create better technologies for public services and to deal with poverty.
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