HuMEL Emerging Technologies in Humanitarian Settings Series: AI 4 MEL

Please join HuMEL for our third and final installation in our Emerging Technologies in Humanitarian Settings series. This session will highlight current use cases of AI for MEL beyond report drafting. What is the best way to trick a chatbot into thinking it's a MEL professional? How do you develop a custom chatbot to navigate the sea of MEL guidance? In this session we'll cover prompt writing tips, process steps, key data privacy considerations, and more.

Speakers

Linda Raftree: Linda has worked at the intersection of community development, gender, youth participatory media, rights-based approaches, and digital development since 1994. She’s been exploring the responsible use of digital approaches and digital data for the past 15 years. Linda is a well-known expert on responsible data policy and procedures, digital safeguarding, inclusive digital approaches, safe tech-enabled programming, digital SBCC, and MERL Tech. She leads sector-wide convenings on these topics through The MERL Tech Initiative, which she founded in 2014, and the New York City Technology Salon which she started in 2011. Linda is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP & CIPM).

Hanna Camp: Hanna is Director of MEL Technologies with Mercy Corps’ Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning team. She leads global strategy development, training, and technical support for MEL Tech, and works with Mercy Corps programs across the globe to implement more efficient and effective processes for collecting, processing, and using MEL data. She also leads or collaborates on grant-funded projects developing resources for specific thematic areas such as reduced access MEL, context analysis, and use of remote sensing data for MEL. Before joining Mercy Corps, Hanna worked as a data analyst and project manager for international development-focused organizations working in agricultural climatology analytics and in long-term scenario planning