Teaming with the European Federation for Missing and Sexually Exploited Children, the Hellenic Red Cross and the Smile of the Child, UBITECH is participating at the kick-off meeting, in Athens, Greece (January 18-19, 2018), of the ChildRescue CAPS Innovation Action, officially started on January 1st, 2018. The project is funded by European Commission under Horizon 2020 Programme (Grant Agreement No. 780938) and spans on the period January 2018 – December 2020. The ChildRescue project aims to explore patterns of interaction and awareness during the missing children investigations, leveraging the untapped potential of open-social-linked data to augment the background information of missing children through multi-layer (personal, psychological, social and activity) profiling and predictive analytics, respecting and protecting privacy and personal data.
ChildRescue will provide evidence-based insights for the network effect’s impact to the missing children response organizations and allow them make informed decisions for each case. Based on location-based mobile notifications that spread using an intelligent system, citizens close to points a missing child was last seen or where a missing child is probable to be found become “social sensors” for the investigation, paying attention to people passing by, contributing and validating potential evidence.