On May 20th 2020 at 2.00 pm, the kick off meeting of the H2020 Crowd4SDG project will be held online in the framework of the AI for Good Webinar on combining crowdsourcing and AI to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic.

The AI for Good Webinar Series is a free, live series of talks, interviews and panels, featuring inter-disciplinary experts whose ideas, insights and solutions can help humanity leverage AI for good. The series will draw upon expertise from the AI for Good Global Summit community to share the latest developments in AI, unique insights and promising use cases on global challenges from health to the environment and reducing inequalities.

In the afternoon at 2.00 pm the launch of Crowd4SDG project will be held.

Crod4SDG is a Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Action supported by the European Commission’s Science with and for Society (SwafS) programme.

The goal of Crowd4SDG is to research how citizen science can provide data for tracking progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals and to study how grassroots innovation can help achieve such progress.

Prof. Barbara Pernici of DEIB will discuss her research on extracting visual evidence about events from social media and discuss its application to natural emergency events within the E2mC project (https://www.e2mc-project.eu/) and for collecting evidence about the impact of COVID-19 proposed recently in the Swiss VersusVirus and European EUvsVirus hackathons (https://lab.citizenscience.ch/en/)

The full program of the event is attached.

Registration is required at https://aiforgood.itu.int/events/covid-19-combining-crowdsourcing-and-ai-to-tackle-the-pandemic/

For further information please visit the website: http://www.crowd4sdg.eu/