Projects
PAIDIT: Private Anonymous Identity for Digital Transfers
Partner: ICRC, funded by HAC Partner contact: TBD EPFL laboratory: Decentralized Distributed Systems Laboratory (DEDIS) EPFL contact: Prof. Bryan Ford To serve the 80 million forcibly-displaced people around the globe, direct cash assistance is gaining acceptance. ICRC’s beneficiaries often do not have, or do not want, the ATM cards or mobile wallets normally used to spend or withdraw cash digitally, because issuers would subject them to privacy-invasive identity verification and potential screening against sanctions and counterterrorism watchlists. On top of that, existing solutions increase the risk of data leaks or surveillance induced by the many third parties having access to the data generated in the transactions. The proposed research focuses on the identity, account, and wallet management challenges in the design of a humanitarian cryptocurrency or token intended to address the above problems.
Topics • Privacy Protection & Cryptography • Blockchains & Smart Contracts • Device & System Security • Finance • Government & Humanitarian
ViewHarmful Information Against Humanitarian Organizations
Partner: ICRC, funded by HAC Partner contact: Fabrice Lauper EPFL laboratory: Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (LSIR) EPFL contact: Prof. Karl Aberer, Rebekah Overdorf In this project, we are working with the ICRC to develop technical methods to combat social media-based attacks against humanitarian organizations. We are uncovering how the phenomenon of weaponizing information impacts humanitarian organizations and developing methods to detect and prevent such attacks, primarily via natural language processing and machine learning methods.
Topics • Machine Learning • Government & Humanitarian
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