LifeForce with Economists for Ukraine
Support market resilience.
Get people what they need,
when they need it.
Over 9M people have left the country, but 25M+ non-combatants remain, among whom almost 50% are internally displaced. Many Ukrainians civilians are running low on the basic resources they need to survive and care for their family. Many are scared and confused about the options available to them—whether to go, where to go, and what information is reliable.
As the Ukrainian government and community groups tried to organize aid information for locals to find on the web and via telegram channels, the Russian military digital teams used them to plan deadly attacks against civilians—causing the Ukrainian government to ask for all such resources to be immediately removed from the open web.
Our philosophy is simple.
Give communities the tools to maximize the resilience of existing inventory and supply relationships, repair and boost the available network of suppliers, logistics, and outlets, and make it maximally simple to bring communities together to find what they need when they need it.
LifeForce ensures a coordinated and resilient response of market, government, and NGO resources, providing immediate support, advice and real time content on a secure platform to those who are most affected in Ukraine.
LifeForce / MySyla
A platform that makes it extremely secure and simple for individuals to ask for and find the things they need to survive.
How it works
Real-time information collection
Our teams of full-time humanitarian workers in each region are responsible for real-time information collection and liaising with community groups, stores, logistics, medical providers, shelters, etc.
Real-time matching
Individuals are able to find exactly what they need in 3-clicks, or submit a direct request for help from our team.
Multi-dimensional security ecosystem
We protect critical civilian infrastructure by only providing the exact information individuals need, when they need it, and protecting that data with the most sophisticated encryption and identity verification standards. No more lists of stores and pharmacies for the Russians to target.
Outreach & coordination team
Local teams are responsible for social media outreach and ensuring the platform’s visibility on official sites and community-wide promotional channels in all active regions.
How LifeForce
makes a real difference
Securing access to real-time, uninterrupted information about needs and available resources is key to the humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.
- Connects real time needs with available support and resources
- Informs civilians about supplies, shelters, transport, and dangerous situations in their vicinity
- Secures civilians, critical online infrastructure, and supply chains
- Protects humanitarian data, locational assets, and resources
The AI for Good Foundation has 40+ employees in Ukraine in the development and deployment of LifeForce and Svidok—both platforms being fully developed by Ukrainians in Ukraine, supporting local economic sustainability and reinvestment in the community. Each major deployment city has a team of 6+ responsible for the different need categories, government relations, and outreach. This hybrid human-technology approach is critical to the success of our interventions.
Our analyst teams are responsible for the timeliness and accuracy of all information stored in the platform, and delegate responsibility for individual store locations, hospitals, shelters, etc. to owners or local administrators who are incentivised to help the community get what they can supply, cut down on long lines waiting to be told the item is out of stock, and increase the safety of local infrastructure.
The LifeForce system, by seeing both sides of the market, is able to provide in-depth reports to the government highlighting items that are in critically low supply, over-supply, or may shortly become important. This can go some way to mitigating the sparse information landscape that often leads foreign providers of aid shipments to guess at what is needed, and disappointed communities near the front lines.
The LifeForce platform never reveals a list of pharmacies, supermarkets, or other important assets, and it automatically identifies and blocks behavior aimed at compromising the safety of information in the system.
Partner with us
Impact Partners
Our partners ensure the critical information & resources are available to make LifeForce impactful 24/7 across Ukraine.
Economists for Ukraine
The Economists for Ukraine initiative works hand in hand with the AI for Good Foundation to experiment, build, and scale solutions to the crisis in Ukraine. The LifeForce project is a direct initiative of Economists for Ukraine with the technology and operational backing of AI for Good.
Everest Effect
Everest Effect is a needs verification platform using Machine Learning and advanced data science to help organizations measure impact and make smarter decisions on the access and distribution of goods, services and capital.
Au10tix
Since 1982, Au10tix has provided critical, modular solutions to verify and link physical and digital identities so businesses and their customers can confidently connect.
AWS
Amazon Web Services is a leading cloud provider to gvernments and public entities around the world. They offer a complete range of storage and compute services with the highest level of security.
Advisory Network
Pomagam Ukrainie
#PomagamUkrainie is a government of Poland initiative helping match people fleeing the war with donors from across the world wanting to get involved.
Wovenware
Wovenware's technology provides custom AI and software solutions that solve real-world challenges for the most demanding environments.
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley is one of the world's leading research institutions and public universities.
Gov.Ua
Gov.ua is the official website of the Government of Ukraine and overseeing the relief efforts.
Nova Ukraine
Nova Ukraine has an established and proven network of partners on the ground in Ukraine providing humanitarian aid to ordinary people and families with children.
Makor Analytics
Makor Analytics is AI for Good's official quantitative research partner. Makor Analytics' AI survey insights help governments and companies understand the perceptions, feelings, and motivations that drive their audience's decision-making.
Viyna.net
Viyna.net is a crowdsourced initiative providing quick and easy information search in Ukraine during the war.
Economists for Ukraine
Leveraging expertise in macroeconomics, finance, behavioral economics, and game theory, we work on analyses of key factors behind the Russian aggression, understanding the consequences if the aggression is not stopped, coordination with international organizations on policy responses such as sanctions, and proactive planning to rebuild Ukraine after the war.
Publications
Economists for Ukraine
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Heartbreaking video from the frontline. A Ukrainian serviceman hides a frightened dog in a trench.
This watch is another symbol of Ukrainian resilience. A volunteer photographed this in Mykolaiv.
“The clock is counting down the minutes to victory. The Ukrainians are alive and will live”, the volunteer writes.
Tonight, Kharkiv shuddered at the Russian attack. The Russians hit a residential building in the city’s center with a missile. One older woman was killed.
The first columns of Russians in Kherson
“I remember how the Russians entered the city, walked in columns along the street, right under our window. And the worst thing about it is the feeling that you are powerless to do something about it…”
