‘We Do Not Know How Many Children Around The World Go Missing … The Data Doesn’t Exist’

The U.S.-based International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), was formed in 1999 to lead and coordinate a global effort to eradicate child abduction, sexual abuse and exploitation. Caroline Humer, the Director of ICMEC’s Global Missing Children’s Center, is at the forefront of their effort to continue to grow their global resource network, and use technology, including machine learning and facial recognition, to empower law enforcement and other first responders around the world to find missing children and their abductors. An impassioned advocate for using technology for the good, she spoke to us about some of the major challenges on the frontlines of the battle to prevent children going missing, the upcoming GMCNgine, using Amazon’s Rekognition, and much more.