Project description
Transforming citizen engagement in missing child searches
Annually, over 250 000 cases of missing children are reported in the EU. In response, the innovative ChildRescue project, funded by the EU, is actively addressing this issue. Collective awareness, resourcefulness, and action are leveraged, with a focus on the critical issue of missing unaccompanied refugee minors. Insightful patterns of interaction and open social linked data are used to enhance background information through multilayer profiling and predictive analytics, while privacy is always respected. As part of the solution, citizens near a missing child's last known location are transformed into "social sensors," receiving intelligent mobile notifications that enable their active contribution to investigations.
Objective
More than 250,000 cases of missing children are annually reported in the EU. Through an innovative approach on the missing children investigation cycle, ChildRescue will be instrumental in leveraging the collective awareness, resourcefulness and action for a humanitarian cause: to expedite more rapid and effective resolution of missing children cases. The project will also take special care for supporting the identification missing unaccompanied refugee minors, which is an emerging issue nowadays.
ChildRescue will explore patterns of interaction and awareness during the missing children investigations, leveraging the untapped potential of open-social-linked data to augment the background information of missing children through multi-layer (personal, psychological, social and activity) profiling and predictive analytics, respecting and protecting privacy and personal data. ChildRescue will provide evidence-based insights for the network effect’s impact to the missing children response organizations and allow them make informed decisions for each case. Based on location-based mobile notifications that spread using an intelligent system, citizens close to points a missing child was last seen or where s/he is probable to be found become “social sensors” for the investigation, paying attention to people passing by, contributing and validating potential evidence.
ChildRescue will deliver a modular, open source solution to be adopted by different voluntary organizations, according to their needs and the readiness of their systems. The project’s results will be piloted in (a) missing children cases by the partners who are responsible for the Amber Alert and 116 000 hotline in those countries; and (b) missing unaccompanied minors cases supported by the Hellenic Red Cross, in complementarity with existing models of operation. Missing Children Europe and Red Cross will ensure visibility of the results across all relevant response and volunteer organizations in Europe.
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- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
- social sciences sociology demography human migrations
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H2020-EU.2.1.1. - INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Leadership in enabling and industrial technologies - Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
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