Project Consolidate II

Global migration reached a staggering record of over 280 million migrants in 2020, a number that has almost quadrupled over the past 60 years. The share of the world’s population that are migrants has also markedly increased, now nearing 4% of the global population. As these numbers continue to rise, it is increasingly unsustainable for researchers in the population migration modeling (PMM) community to continue to operate in siloed efforts that lead to either inefficient rework or poor knowledge sharing. Project Consolidate will address these challenges by designing and building a collaboration-focused and AI-enabled recommender system that allows PMM researchers to discover, build, and share models more efficiently and effectively. It will build on top of a suite of mature technologies, such as Aptima’s Seek and AidData’s GeoQuery platforms, to combine automated structured and unstructured annotation of content relevant for PMM (e.g., publications, datasets, surveys), and provide project-oriented recommendations of resources to individual researchers and teams through an intuitive interface designed with PMM users in mind. The resulting Phase II prototype system will be implemented in a manner that increases the likelihood of transition to government and industry use through robust sustainability and accreditation considerations.