Participatory Research

During this meeting we will be hearing a talk from Ivan Caballero, the founder and CEO of Citibeats

Talk: Collective intelligence on social needs during COVID 19

Citibeats is a fast and easy social data intelligence platform using NLP & machine-learning to turn speech into insights. In 2019, Citibeats was recognized by the World Summit Awards as the best project in the world for governance and civic engagement by the World Economic Forum as ‘the first AI for measuring the SDGs’. bySAP as a universal tool to foster civic responsiveness, and by Twitter as a lead case study of using open data for civic good.

In the days following the outbreak of COVID 19 in Europe, Citibeats has begun launching collective intelligence ‘observatories’ in more than 12 countries, to bring real-time views on social needs to governments, companies and people. By analyzing millions of opinions every week, it is possible to use ‘citizens as a sensor’ for where there are unmet, rising, or outlier social needs that should be a priority to respond to.