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Can Artificial Intelligence help reducing urban informality? Discover MAIIA, the new IDB software

February 22, 2022 por Luz Adriana Moreno González - Véronique de Laet - Hector Antonio Vazquez Brust - Patricio Zambrano Barragán - Editor: Daniel Peciña-Lopez Leave a Comment

The expansion of informal settlements is one of the problems of Latin America and the Caribbean´s (LAC) cities. At least 25% of its population lives in one of them. Why does this phenomenon happen? Can it be reversed? Can technology help us reducing urban informality? In this blog we answer these questions, and, in addition, we will show how a project supported by the IDB … [Read more...] about Can Artificial Intelligence help reducing urban informality? Discover MAIIA, the new IDB software

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