Artificial Intelligence Wants to Help Covid-Wary Biz Travelers Be Smarter About Flying
Photo Credit: Organisations have so far tended to steer away from using algorithms to measure the complexity of a traveler's risk profile. Unsplash / Ismail Mohamed Sovile
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With emotions likely to be high in 2021, it will be interesting to see how effective data crunching is when it comes to restarting travel.
It’s the question most global companies want an answer for: Can they finally restart their travel programs in 2021?
There's been a lot of progress over the past few months, with several digital health passport schemes launched and vaccines rolling out. Travel corridors also offer some hope, with different countries relaxing rules or establishing fast lanes.
But at the same time, it means employers are faced with overwhelming amounts of information to process.
Now one technology platform thinks it has the answer. Dataminr said it leverages artificial intelligence to provide the earliest indications of business-critical information about risks to staff.
It claims it can provide real-time insights from on-the-ground happenings, such as new international travel restrictions or reports of overcrowded airport terminals through social media, to help inform travel decisions.
Dataminr also said it first detected the outbreak of Covid-19 from public social media posts at 9:11AM
