{"id":1110,"date":"2020-12-20T02:09:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-20T02:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1110"},"modified":"2020-12-20T02:14:42","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T02:14:42","slug":"how-togo-does-covid-economic-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/?p=1110","title":{"rendered":"How Togo does covid economic aid"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/clever-strategy-distribute-covid-aid-satellite-data\/\">https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/clever-strategy-distribute-covid-aid-satellite-data\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ok, this is amazing. Togo, in 10 days in April, rolled out a program to pay it&#8217;s poorest citizens a bi-weekly amount directly through their phones. The program identified the neediest recipients through a combination of a machine learning algorithm that associated satellite imagery of roof materials, road types and so on with phone usage stats like amount of credit top-ups, etc to send text messages to the neediest inviting participation and asking a couple of verification questions. It matched the phone to voter id records, then within three minutes or so made the first direct payment to the recipient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Three minutes. Four or five questions over SMS. Micro-targeted to those who needed it most. Fully automatic, trackable, auditable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the collaboration of a team from uc berkeley, northwestern, and a non profit cash distribution service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is Togo, people.  Let&#8217;s get these people to port the system to the US and throw out all the paper checks, overstressed unemployment systems, Congressional bickering, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/clever-strategy-distribute-covid-aid-satellite-data\/ Ok, this is amazing. Togo, in 10 days in April, rolled out a program to pay it&#8217;s poorest citizens a bi-weekly amount directly through their phones. The program identified the neediest recipients through a combination of a machine learning algorithm that associated satellite imagery of roof materials, road types and so on with phone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1110"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1110\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ifmbanm.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}