DATE: 04.09.2013
POSTED BY: Jason
It is estimated that there are 21 million people enslaved worldwide.[1] Human trafficking is the third largest global illicit trade and is growing at a higher rate than weapons and narcotics. Men, women, and children are victims of trafficking internationally as well as within the United States. Polaris Project, Liberty Asia, and La Strada International are recipients of [...]
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DATE: 03.22.2013
POSTED BY: Kyle
Like the other domains in which our software is deployed, investigative journalism relies on the insight and judgment of human experts. Armed with the right technology and enough data, these experts can achieve extraordinary outcomes. On the Philanthropy Engineering team, we’ve been fortunate to collaborate with passionate, truth-seeking journalists on several inspiring projects, many of which [...]
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DATE: 11.14.2012
POSTED BY: Jason
Since 4 November, Palantir’s Philanthropy Engineering team has been supporting Team Rubicon’s Hurricane Sandy relief efforts. We have engineers on the ground in Brooklyn and Far Rockaway who are standing up, operating, and training volunteers on our software, while others provide reachback support from our offices across the country. This is an exciting time for Philanthropy Engineering at Palantir not only because we are supporting such an inspiring mission, but because it is the first time that we’ve deployed engineers to a disaster area to support relief efforts directly. Several of our Philanthropy Engineers have been writing up reports from the field, and we want to share them here since they best communicate what this effort is all about.
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DATE: 10.16.2012
POSTED BY: Zach
Disputes between Sudan and newly independent South Sudan led to a halt in oil production in early 2012, bringing an economic crisis to both countries. On June 16, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir and his National Congress Party imposed austerity measures, including the withdrawal of wheat and fuel subsidies. Demonstrations against the regime broke out at [...]
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A Grameen Foundation Community Knowledge worker speaks with a Ugandan farmer. A piece recently published on both the Scientific American and Fast Company’s CoExist websites highlights our most recent work with the Grameen Foundation. We participated in Hacking for Hunger, a first-of-its-kind hackathon held by the Office of Innovation & Development Alliances at USAID, which [...]
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Since our earliest days, the people that make up Palantir have always been passionate about two things: building the best technology to change the way that people relate to data and deploying that technology to the organizations with the data and mission to make a real difference. As we built our business, we started looking [...]
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DATE: 08.02.2012
POSTED BY: Ashling
Palantir donated software to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) in support of a four-part investigative series on the global trade and illegal trafficking of human tissue. ICIJ broke the story at the Google Ideas Summit on Illicit Networks on July 17, 2012. The series investigates how human tissue is taken from the dead, [...]
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DATE: 01.24.2011
POSTED BY: Brandon
The Center for Public Integrity (CPI), in conjunction with Georgetown University, just completed a three and a half year project identifying the intricate network of co-conspirators in the kidnapping and beheading of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. Palantir provided its software platform to the investigators to support analysis of the data and help identify [...]
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DATE: 02.26.2010
POSTED BY: Jason
As we enter the beginning of the rainy season in Haiti, one of the biggest problems facing relief organizations today is the spectre of flooding and mudslides destroying Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) Camps. In this video, we integrate data from many sources to determine high risk aid locations. Palantir Technologies is continuing to contribute to [...]
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DATE: 05.08.2009
POSTED BY: Rosco
We had the opportunity to work with the Center for Public Integrity to analyze almost 5 million home mortgage loans originated between 2005 and 2007. The Center’s investigation found that the top subprime lenders whose loans are blamed for triggering the global economic meltdown were owned or backed by the same banks now collecting billions [...]
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