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Visual Senses AI platform allows practitioners to get the most actionable insights without spending months on data analysis, and without compromising on data security and ethics. www.

Visual Senses AI platform allows practitioners to get the most actionable insights without spending months on data analysis, and without compromising on data security and ethics. [Photo/Modern Diplomacy]

Visual Senses AI platform to help with development aid delivery

Rural Senses has launched a new AI platform for development aid delivery focusing on evaluation in low and middle-income countries.

by Martin Mwita
March 8, 2022
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  • Only 20 per cent of aid practitioners have sufficient data to ensure success
  • The AI-driven data platform allows aid practitioners to listen to vulnerable community members at scale
  • Visual Senses enables vulnerable communities and consumers to speak up about their stories and needs

Social enterprise Rural Senses has launched Visual Senses – An AI-driven data platform that allows aid practitioners to listen to vulnerable community members at scale, and act based on what they most care about.

The platform enables vulnerable communities and consumers to speak up about their stories and needs.

In the background, AI-powered algorithms translate the stories to actionable and customized insights.

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Companies and nonprofits already use Visual Senses to create sustainable projects and products.

Accurate and reliable data is at the heart of effective development.

While the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) reports US$300 billion of annual investments in developing countries, only 20 per cent of the implementing practitioners have the sufficient data required to successfully meet the needs of the communities they work with.

According to Rural Senses CEO Yau Ben-Or, this is because most projects are still built solely on quantitative data.

“Although necessary, quantitative data doesn’t reveal what success looks like for the local communities. Existing tools for the collection and analysis of qualitative data are time-consuming, costly and often introduce biases and ambiguous results,” Ben-Or notes.

As a result, important insights are missed, organisational learning is compromised, and projects’ sustainability is limited, he added.

Rural Senses’ says it’s mission is to position the priorities of community members early and high in the decision-making process.

“Our goal is to make data available, user-friendly and affordable through the Visual Senses platform. This will allow organizations to design a project in a human-centric way. Stakeholders can then continue to use the platform to ensure the intended impact is delivered, ” Ben-Or says.

The new platform allows practitioners to get the most actionable insights without spending months on data analysis, and without compromising on data security and ethics”

“We are happy to see more donors and impact investors that require proof that the target community is involved in the design process. Our platform will allow organizations to engage with the local communities and raise funds more effectively, ” concludes Ben-Or.

The Visual Senses dashboard leverages a unique data collection method deemed User Perceived Value (UPV).

The UPV was developed by Co-Founder Dr Stephanie Hirmer after five years of research at The University of Cambridge.

The Visual Senses dashboard leverages a unique data collection method deemed User Perceived Value (UPV). www.theexchange.africa
The Visual Senses dashboard leverages a unique data collection method deemed User Perceived Value (UPV). [Photo/Global Open Data for Agriculture and Nutrition]
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“The purpose of this unique data collection method is to uncover the benefits of initiatives as understood by local community members themselves, whilst seeking to identify their true wants, values and needs. This really helps when designing a new project, or when seeking to increase adoption. We work with local data collectors ensuring nothing is lost in translation,” says Dr Hirmer.

Head of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Lauren Newbould explains further: “Qualitative data can be a task to analyse and represent. However, our proprietary AI-based algorithm – stories to insights (S2I) can automatically analyze huge volumes of qualitative data while staying true to the local context. Results can be processed based on gender, geography, age, intervention type and more. “

The S2I was designed as a complete suite for the UPV and has been scaled to analyse different qualitative data formats collected by different organisations.

Further endorsement comes from Professor Sir Brian Heap, at the University of Cambridge who has extensive experience in the developing world aid sector: “Rural Senses’ framework is the best existing tool to measure actual impact as it is perceived by the beneficiaries themselves.”

Rural Senses is a social enterprise that originated from research conducted at the University of Cambridge.

It helps companies and non-profits who work in developing countries to build more targeted products and projects and raise more funding.

Rural Senses data platform allows to collect, analyse and visualize qualitative data about the changing perceptions of people in developing communities.

Their use of AI and standard processes, allows their solution to be faster, more personalized and to require less technical skills than the alternatives.

The company was founded by Yau Ben-Or and Dr Stephanie Hirmer in 2018.

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Tags: AI-driven data platformAI-powered algorithmsAid practitionersDr Stephanie HirmerOECDOrganisation for Economic Co-operation and DevelopmentRural Sensessocial enterpriseUniversity of CambridgeVisual SensesVulnerable community membersYau Ben-Or

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