March 23, 2020

Data for Humanity: Geospatial AI for Public Health

This blog post puts the spotlight on our new initiative called Data for Humanity and our new geospatial dashboard to measure the movement patterns of people across 11 countries.

Data for Humanity: Geospatial AI for Public Health

This is an unprecedented moment for humankind. The world is faced with a viral pandemic of enormous proportions. As the saying goes, when the going gets tough, the tough get going. And that exactly sums up CITYDATA's approach to our global crisis.

We consider it our civic duty to provide our government leaders, medical experts, researchers, and epidemiologists with the best possible data to help them make the most timely decisions to battle COVID-19. To that end, CITYDATA.ai has launched the Data for Humanity initiative.

Data for Humanity

CITYDATA.ai pledges, to the best of our ability and our limited resources, to offer the CITYDASH.ai geospatial platform to government agencies, non-profits, researchers, and academic institutions, with:
  • Free consulting services until the pandemic is contained
  • Free monthly data insights about anonymized people movement

COVID-19 is a community spread pandemic. Social distancing, sheltering in place, and self-quarantining are critical to contain the spread of the pathogen and flatten the transmission curve. Our data insights about the anonymized movement patterns of people can provide essential inputs for governments to measure the effectiveness of their lockdown or stay-at-home policies.

At CITYDATA.ai, we collect, analyze, and produce weekly and daily anonymized data sets for 1450 cities on a global scale to infer aggregated people-presence, activity, and movement across 60 countries, including US, Canada, Italy, Spain, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, Japan, South Korea, India, and Taiwan.

Please reach out to your local, regional and national government leaders to let them know about CITYDASH.ai and spread the word about our Data for Humanity initiative. Help us save lives.

Stay safe. Be well.

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CITYDATA.ai is a San Francisco based startup that has been featured in the GovTech 100 list for 2018, 2019, and 2020, an exclusive list of innovative companies that provide technology products and solutions for the public sector. We provides People Intelligence™ as a service for smarter cities and real-world businesses. By combining public and private data, our technology platform unlocks deep insights that were previously inaccessible to city departments. CITYDATA.ai makes it easy for city leaders to make data-driven decisions to create social impact and engage with local communities. Our AI platform, technology, and service are designed to make cities smarter, safer, and sustainable.