AI Solutions for Effective Development Decisions
what we offer
AI solutions for Disaster Risk Management (DRM)
With ever-changing risks, new technologies, and political uncertainties, Insight Commons offers custom AI-driven solutions for identifying and quantifying critical risks, and for finding the optimal risk management strategies. We draw on a unique repository of humanitarian and DRM knowledge, to help organizations to navigate an increasingly risky world.
Support to critical decision-making processes
Insight Commons is pioneering new approaches to support decentralized decision-making by making expert knowledge easily and affordably accessible to communities. We also provide tools to ensure that community perspectives are effectively integrated into policies and project designs. Additionally, we are developing methods to correct biases in both human and AI-driven decision-making, while addressing areas of disagreement among stakeholders.
Support for project design and MEL
Insight Commons has developed AI-driven technology for designing projects and policies that are informed by the latest available research, experiences of similar projects, and the opinions of stakeholders. We support monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) and decision-making processes that are agile, adapting project designs to new information, risks, and opportunities.
A wealth of global resources at your fingertips
Insight Commons has developed a vast document and data lake relating to global developmental, humanitarian, and environmental challenges. Each day, scrapers check for new publications from specialized local, national and global institutions. Millions of documents have been converted into an easily searchable repository with a rich set of tools for managing data and document repositories and for running analytical models..
Our mission is to unlock the positive power of AI to support human decision-making around critical global challenges, while limiting the downside such as algorithmic bias, hallucination, and the unimaginative recycling of dubious common knowledge.
Based in Washington DC and Nairobi, we are a small team of technology enthusiasts who have dedicated their careers to data analytics for tackling global challenges, including famine and food insecurity and management of catastrophic disasters. Our technical experience is in both conventional and AI-driven analytics, big data management, and modeling of complex systems.
The Insight Commons team members have implemented decision-support systems across the globe. We have learned how to tackle resistance to change and to ensure that our clients embrace and adopt appropriate technologies.