AI for Humanitarian Action Project Submission Intake Form

Project proposals can be submitted from 23 March until 31 May. All projects will be evaluated first in June and July, with clarifying questions and follow up to the top prospects in July. All projects will be decided and announced once the evaluation process is completed,currently planned for the end of August 2021.

Please answer every question in the form below for your application to be considered. The most important part of your application is a project proposal that relates to developing AI solutions which address challenges in Disaster Response, Human Rights, Needs of Women and Children, and Refugees and Displaced persons. Please review the project criteria, and attach any additional documentation for your proposal in the application below.

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What is the name of your organization?

Please provide email address for person submitting the proposal

Please identify your type of organization?

If Other, please identify type of organization?

If For Profit, please identify your humanitarian partner

Please provide your organization's website

What country is your organization based? (Please click on Search icon to update)

What is the title of your project?

In which country does the project take place?

Provide a short description of the challenge your organization is looking to address:[max 100 words]

Provide a description of the project: [max 500 words]

Which AI for Humanitarian Action pillar does the project address?

What outcomes would this project achieve?

How might these outcomes be measured?

In bullet form, list the project deliverables expected from Microsoft's support:

What Microsoft resources are being requested?

Do you require Azure Engineering for deployment support?

NoYes

What is your estimate of Azure Consumption for 2 Years?

Are you requesting Microsoft Data science Support?

NoYes

Are there any Microsoft contacts or collaborators whom you are working with? If yes, who?

What type of data will be used for this project (e.g. Images, Direct Data, etc.)?

What is the size of the data which will be used for this project (size of dataset and/or # of TeraBytes etc.)?

Do you currently have access to the data?

Does the data include labels (for example tied to known outcomes, labeled images, etc)?

Does the data contain any personally identifiable information? If "Yes", is the data anonymized?

Where is the data now? Is the data accessible through the cloud?

Do you have data sovereignty requirements which require you to process data in certain geographies?

How would your organization publicly communicate this engagement and outcomes? If successful, would you consider a research paper in collaboration with us?

What are the plans for sharing results (e.g. open source code, data, services, results, publications, etc.)?

Would you be wiling to publicly share the training data used?

What is your sustainability plan once Microsoft support ends?

Who will be the Project Manager for the organization?

Email for Project Manager of the organization

Please provide any additional documentation if available (upload all documents once): [each max 5 MB]

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