STOP THE TRAFFIK’s Traffik Analysis Hub empowers the fight to end human trafficking by bringing together businesses and organizations across industries and sectors to share trafficking information.
Global anti-trafficking nonprofit, The Exodus Road, joins the Traffik Analysis Hub bringing trafficking data from investigative work in countries like India, Brazil, Thailand and the Philippines.
In July, The Exodus Road began sharing trafficking data with and accessing data from STOP THE TRAFFIK’s Traffik Analysis Hub.
Utilizing the Traffik Analysis Hub is already enabling our teams to view global patterns and analyze trends. Data is critical to being able to disrupt human trafficking at all levels …”
— Andrew Hoskins, The Exodus Road’s Vice President of International Programs
COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, UNITED STATES, August 18, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — In the fight to end human trafficking, data is critical. Today, The Exodus Road announced a new collaboration with a UK-based nonprofit, STOP THE TRAFFIK, to share data and intelligence in the anti-human trafficking field. By joining the nonprofit’s Traffik Analysis Hub (TA Hub), The Exodus Road gained access to a powerful database that leverages and combines data sets from organizations around the world to provide a holistic picture of global trafficking trends.
In 2019, STOP THE TRAFFIK and their long-term partner, IBM, created TA Hub to facilitate the sharing of trafficking information across all industries and sectors. As well as running automated scrapes of international open source data feeds, the hub gathers data from a number of different organizations – including NGOs and law enforcement agencies. The system then pairs the data with cognitive, AI and ML technologies to identify patterns and provide insights to users – which includes financial institutions, banks, supply chain businesses, NGOs, researchers and law enforcement agencies.
The Exodus Road’s CEO and Co-Founder Laura Parker said: “One of the primary challenges in fighting human trafficking globally is understanding it. Data detailing criminal trends and survivor insights is difficult to collect, yet essential for making systemic change. We’re excited to join STOP THE TRAFFIK as they push forward the data-driven approach to ending human trafficking.”
With more than a decade of investigative work partnering with law enforcement agencies around the world, The Exodus Road has collected an extensive store of data and intelligence on human-trafficking crime through in-field and cyber operations. This data is securely stored and analyzed via a customized, law-enforcement-grade, encrypted case management software and represents hundreds of thousands of collective hours of front-line investigative work.
Now, with TA Hub, the larger counter-trafficking community will be able to access and learn from The Exodus Road’s 10 years’ worth of investigative data.
“We launched Traffik Analysis Hub to initiate a collaborative, data-sharing movement that empowers organizations globally in the fight to end human trafficking,” said Rebekah Lisgarten, STOP THE TRAFFIK’s Operations Director. “The NGO contribution is at the centre of Traffik Analysis Hub’s value proposition, and we are thrilled to have The Exodus Road collaborate with us and the growing community of Traffik Analysis Hub participants. As this global data accumulates, it will provide a highly detailed and granular global picture of trafficking. The Exodus Road and the stories of Survivors they have shared, continue to help us better understand the global picture of human trafficking and exploitation.”
The Exodus Road joined a community of over 350 analysts from over 100 participating multi-sector organizations from 16 countries, across every continent. By aggregating this data, STOP THE TRAFFIK is empowering organizations worldwide to better combat human trafficking.
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