Lab joins colleagues on an HAI Seed grant addressing forced labor in supply chains

The Billington Lab will collaborate on a project titled ‘Identifying Forced Labor in the Construction and Food Industries’ together with the colleagues from the GSB and the Woods Institute for the Environment.

Twenty-eight million people are trapped in forced labor worldwide, and the supply chains for the construction and agriculture sectors are among those where the practice is most prevalent. This project seeks to assemble unified datasets that combine structured and unstructured data stemming from diverse sources including supply chain databases, governmental surveys, social media, or remote sensing tools, and use these to develop more robust and more equitable predictive models for assessing the risk of forced labor across distinct geographic and industry contexts.

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