Welcome to the Community Crisis Intelligence course: Elevating Community Voices with AI

Community crisis intelligence (CCI) is the collection of tools and practices that combines crowdsourced data gathered from affected communities and frontline responders with artificial intelligence (AI) for more effective crisis mitigation, response or recovery. 

This course is an introduction to ‘Community Crisis Intelligence’ and its potential to improve crisis mitigation, response, and recovery efforts.


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Is this course for me?


This course is designed for anyone in the humanitarian sector who wants to learn more about leveraging the potential of community intelligence and artificial intelligence (AI).


This is an introductory course and it does not require any prior knowledge of AI. 


You may be in a management role trying to understand the business case for these approaches; in a technical role looking for ideas to improve current processes using Community Crisis Intelligence, or in a front-line role wanting to understand how to work with community data safely.

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How will I benefit from this course?


The course is organised into four core modules: 

  • Module 1 - Community Crisis Intelligence: Introducing the basics of Community Crisis Intelligence - including examples of the most common collective intelligence and AI techniques.

  • Module 2 - The Value of CCI:  Learn how Community Crisis Intelligence can support humanitarian priorities, from situational awareness and resource management to monitoring & evaluation.  

  • Module 3 - How to Assess and Manage AI risks: An overview of how to manage the main risks of AI technology 

  • Module 4 - CCI in Practice: Learn how participatory approaches can help you to implement Community Crisis Intelligence responsibly


After this course you will be able to: 

  • Articulate the potential opportunities for using Community Crisis Intelligence in humanitarian operations

  • Explain the benefits for crisis-affected communities and humanitarian staff

  • Recognise the potential risks of working with AI and how they can be mitigated

  • Describe how to use participatory approaches to implement Community Crisis Intelligence

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How long will it take?
 

The course has 4 core modules and each module is approximately 20 mins in length. The whole course will take approximately 1 hour and a half to complete. However you do not need to complete the course in one go, you can always continue later from where you left off.

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How much does it cost?
 This course is free!

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Will I get a certificate or digital badge at the end?
 Yes - you will be able to download a certificate and a digital badge once you have completed all 4 modules of the course and provided feedback in the evaluation form.

The word START and a question mark in a circleHow do I start?
 Scroll to the top of the page and click on the   I agree - join course   button. This will take you through to the course content. You don't need to complete the course in one go - you can always continue later from where you left off.


This course was created in collaboration between: 


Funded by:

 UK Humanitarian 

Innovation Hub (UKHIH)



UK International Development





Disclaimer
This course was created and is administered by the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design - Nesta, Data Friendly Space, CDAC Network, and Humanitarian Leadership Academy. By joining this course you are consenting to the Centre for Collective Intelligence Design - Nesta, and Humanitarian Leadership Academy being given access to your Kaya profile information, including your name and email address, so that they can provide the course. This may require them to contact you. Your data will be anonymised before it is used for any analysis or reporting purposes. If you have any questions about this, please email digitallearning@savethechildren.org.uk