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Sponsor: Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO)
Point of Contact: Santiago Stocker
Original Challenge:
CSO needs to
acquire more
information about
informal leaders.
Final Problem Solved:
American Diplomats
have this information,
but it is unstructured,
inefficient and difficult
to access.
MS Computer
Science
Software Engineer,
Machine Learning
NLP & Data Mining
Meet Our Team
Shutong Zhang
BS Computer Science
Front-End, UI/UX
Software Engineer
Christian Valadez
BA History
Minor Arabic
Regional Expert
Nathan Hausman
Start from a real story...
A Case Study : Crisis in Algeria
21 Days until shutdown....
Helicopter
Company
A Case Study : Crisis in Algeria
Embassy in
Algeria
18 Days until shutdown....
Helicopter
Company
A Case Study : Crisis in Algeria
Embassy in
Algeria
16 Days until shutdown....
Diplomat: “Who
Do I Talk To?”
Helicopter
Company
A Case Study : Crisis in Algeria
Embassy in
Algeria
0 Days until shutdown....
Diplomat: “Who
Do I Talk To?”
Helicopter
Compayny
Policy Maker:
Informed Diplomat
A Case Study : Crisis in Algeria
Embassy in
Algeria
0 Days until shutdown....
Diplomat: “Who
Do I Talk To?”
Helicopter
Company
Policy Maker:
Informed Diplomat
“Real people and real companies suffer
when diplomats can’t find the right people
at the right time.”
Our Journey
MVP 1: Connecting CSO to Embassy
MVP 1: Connecting CSO to Embassy
● Reviewed With 2 policy makers, 8 diplomats
Uniform feedback from Diplomats in Africa:
“I do not have time to reupload this information.”
x10
“Just make the policy makers read my cables.”
Our Journey
MVP 2: Summarizing Classified Cables
Use Natural Language
Processing to “scrape”
key
- Names
- Locations
- Dates
MVP 2: Summarizing Classified Cables
● Reviewed with 10 diplomats, 5 desk officers and 2
technologists
Diplomat: “Foggy Bottom is a cable monster.”
x10
Desk Officer : “Cables are classified,
unaggregated and unstructured.”
Policy Maker: “Cables don’t show
relationships I need to know.”
MVP 2: Summarizing Classified Cables
Technologists Diplomats
Customer Pivot
From Policy Makers to Diplomats
Our Journey
MVP 3: Contact Network Map
MVP 3: Contact Network Map
● Reviewed With 8 diplomats
Diplomats (Political/Economic):
“I really only need this to map
my 10 closest contacts.”
“Finally, a product that addresses the
needs of diplomats on the ground!
Contact
Management &
Suggestion
Diplomat (Public Affairs):
“Hey wait, can this thing
suggest people to invite to
diplomatic functions?”
Contact
Management &
Suggestion
Diplomat (Public Affairs):
“Hey wait, can this thing
suggest people to invite to
diplomatic functions?”
Beneficiaries
Mission AchievementMission Budget/Costs
Buy-In/Support
Deployment
Value PropositionKey Activities
Key Resources
Key Partners
CSO:
Santiago - Writing report about Boko Haram
Tyler - Analyzing relationship between known
members of BH and unclassified actors
Will Meeker - Travels to Nigeria for 2 years to
generate contacts for CSO, get Santiago data
Embassy Staff:
LES: Locally engaged staff
Caroline: Economic/ Political Officer at small
Embassy in stable country
James/Steve: Economic/ Political Officer at large
Embassy in an unstable country
Nick: Public Diplomacy Officer at busy Embassy
S/ES& Special Projects
Kapil Gupta: Commitment to show off our
demonstrate prototype
John Janek:Will send our prototype to
Mauritania Embassy friends w/DCM
Foreign Nationals:(OMS): Office
Management Specialists and LES
To implement and upkeep
program at each embassy with
updated information about
contacts from events/meetings
Individual FSO buy-in
DCM to okay program at 1
embassy as test case and
delegate time for FSO’s and LES
to test/use
Kapil Gupta: Commitment to
show off our demonstrate
prototype
CSO Sponsor: Santiago Stocker
IDEO team leader for QDDR
A Dev Garden Consulting: TAP,
SBIR, Accelerator/Combinator
and Angel Funding consulting,
connections, proposal writing
Beta starts in Nigeria
Embassy, with Vanguard
newspaper(English) and
twitter hexagon of Abuja
Target 8 Countries in MENA-
Saudi, Israel, Qatar... when
NLP+AI perfected, final
contract from DOS when
product 3.0 ready for
world-wide deployment
Need CSO to continue
connecting us upstream w/
former clients and
downstream with data
sources in field
DCM initial support, for 1 or
more POL/ECON sections
FSO to implement first 10
names that come to mind,
LES long term key holders
Source
Aggregation:
Gives organizations the ability to
identify most important actors in
rapidly evolving situations using
data mined from a breadth of
sources.
Hierarchy
visualization:ensure
people from all backgrounds can
analyze and filter relevant data
depending on their needs.
Extraction/
Suggestion: Perform
natural language processing
on news articles, twitter and
etc to extract categories and
information for informal
leaders. Suggest novel
contacts for each FSO based
on known network.
Improve CSO’s ability to write relevant reports by giving them tools for
passive “granular” data collection w/o Embassy involvement
Provide long-term contact management, node mapping software,
hierarchical ranking software, news feed of recent activity of known contacts
new contacts discovery
Contact suggestion that cuts reliable informant acquisition time in half
Current contact
management and
information collection
New contact discovery
and understanding
Previously published unclassified
reports commissioned by DOS
Nigerian news papers
gurdian, sahara Times, Punch,
Business day, Vanguard
Polis Backbone
SV companies /DOS projects who
are working in a similar space
aka SalesForce and Transparency
team
(partnerships)
Immediate: MVP--> Prototype that integrates w/ DOS Blackberry
Classic and Windows XP... sweat equity
FY1: Deployment to 1 Embassy: Travel to Target Embassy, Legal
Fees for DOS Cloud Review, 200 contract hours with AI & UIXUX
FY2-4: NLP Non-Latin Script- LinguaSys GlobalNLP, Full Time AI
expert to perfect contact suggestion, travel for sales/lobbying
Beneficiaries
Mission AchievementMission Budget/Costs
Buy-In/Support
Deployment
Value PropositionKey Activities
Key Resources
Key Partners
CSO:
Santiago - Writing report about Boko Haram
Tyler - Analyzing relationship between known
members of BH and unclassified actors
Will Meeker - Travels to Nigeria for 2 years to
generate contacts for CSO, get Santiago data
Embassy Staff:
LES: Locally engaged staff
Caroline: Economic/ Political Officer at small
Embassy in stable country
James/Steve: Economic/ Political Officer at large
Embassy in an unstable country
Nick: Public Diplomacy Officer at busy Embassy
S/ES& Special Projects
Kapil Gupta: Commitment to show off our
demonstrate prototype
John Janek:Will send our prototype to
Mauritania Embassy friends w/DCM
Foreign Nationals:(OMS): Office
Management Specialists and LES
To implement and upkeep
program at each embassy with
updated information about
contacts from events/meetings
Individual FSO buy-in
DCM to okay program at 1
embassy as test case and
delegate time for FSO’s and LES
to test/use
Kapil Gupta: Commitment to
show off our demonstrate
prototype
CSO Sponsor: Santiago Stocker
IDEO team leader for QDDR
A Dev Garden Consulting: TAP,
SBIR, Accelerator/Combinator
and Angel Funding consulting,
connections, proposal writing
Beta starts in Nigeria
Embassy, with Vanguard
newspaper(English) and
twitter hexagon of Abuja
Target 8 Countries in MENA-
Saudi, Israel, Qatar... when
NLP+AI perfected, final
contract from DOS when
product 3.0 ready for
world-wide deployment
Need CSO to continue
connecting us upstream w/
former clients and
downstream with data
sources in field
DCM initial support, for 1 or
more POL/ECON sections
FSO to implement first 10
names that come to mind,
LES long term key holders
Source
Aggregation:
Gives organizations the ability to
identify most important actors in
rapidly evolving situations using
data mined from a breadth of
sources.
Hierarchy
visualization:ensure
people from all backgrounds can
analyze and filter relevant data
depending on their needs.
Extraction/
Suggestion: Perform
natural language processing
on news articles, twitter and
etc to extract categories and
information for informal
leaders. Suggest novel
contacts for each FSO based
on known network.
Improve CSO’s ability to write relevant reports by giving them tools for
passive “granular” data collection w/o Embassy involvement
Provide long-term contact management, node mapping software,
hierarchical ranking software, news feed of recent activity of known contacts
new contacts discovery
Contact suggestion that cuts reliable informant acquisition time in half
Current contact
management and
information collection
New contact discovery
and understanding
Previously published unclassified
reports commissioned by DOS
Nigerian news papers
gurdian, sahara Times, Punch,
Business day, Vanguard
Polis Backbone
SV companies /DOS projects who
are working in a similar space
aka SalesForce and Transparency
team
(partnerships)
Immediate: MVP--> Prototype that integrates w/ DOS Blackberry
Classic and Windows XP... sweat equity
FY1: Deployment to 1 Embassy: Travel to Target Embassy, Legal
Fees for DOS Cloud Review, 200 contract hours with AI & UIXUX
FY2-4: NLP Non-Latin Script- LinguaSys GlobalNLP, Full Time AI
expert to perfect contact suggestion, travel for sales/lobbying
Value Proposition
Extraction/Suggestions
Perform natural language processing on
twitter and RSS feeds to extract categories
and information for informal leaders.
Suggest novel contacts for each FSO based
on known network.
Our Journey
IDEO
Aggregates
information and
facilitates sharing
- AMBITIOUS
prototype
IDEO
Same conclusion
State Department is in need of contact management
solution.
Did IDEO overreach?
IDEO wanted to gut and replace entire workflow, instead of
addressing specific pain points.
What we learned
Do not interrupt people’s existing workflow.
1
2
3
Your team learned in 9 weeks
what we did in 9 months.
”
“
Final MVP: Contact Management & Suggestion
Twitter
Known
Contacts
People You Should Connect
With
Connect
Rotimi Akeredolu, Governor-
Elect of Ondo State
Connect
Betty Akeredolu, founder and
president of BRECAN, married
to Rotimi Akeredolu
Connect
Simon Lalong, Nigerian lawyer
and politician
See More ->
https://github.com/USStateDept/Polis
Deploying AggregateDB to Fix Crisis in Algeria
Embassy in
Algeria
Shorten to 7 Days using AggregateDB
Diplomat: “Who
Do I Talk To?”
Helicopter
Companies
Policy Maker:
Informed Diplomat
Deploying AggregateDB to Fix Crisis in Algeria
Embassy in
Algeria
Shorten to 7 Days using AggregateDB
Diplomat: “Who
Do I Talk To?”
Helicopter
Companies
Policy Maker:
Informed Diplomat
Deploying AggregateDB To Fix
Diplomacy Crises
● Deployment to target embassy -
Mauritania
● Work w/ IIP for 8 embassy
deployment

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Aggregate db Lessons Learned H4Dip Stanford 2016

  • 1. 87Interviews AggregateDB Sponsor: Conflict and Stabilization Operations (CSO) Point of Contact: Santiago Stocker Original Challenge: CSO needs to acquire more information about informal leaders. Final Problem Solved: American Diplomats have this information, but it is unstructured, inefficient and difficult to access.
  • 2. MS Computer Science Software Engineer, Machine Learning NLP & Data Mining Meet Our Team Shutong Zhang BS Computer Science Front-End, UI/UX Software Engineer Christian Valadez BA History Minor Arabic Regional Expert Nathan Hausman
  • 3. Start from a real story...
  • 4. A Case Study : Crisis in Algeria 21 Days until shutdown.... Helicopter Company
  • 5. A Case Study : Crisis in Algeria Embassy in Algeria 18 Days until shutdown.... Helicopter Company
  • 6. A Case Study : Crisis in Algeria Embassy in Algeria 16 Days until shutdown.... Diplomat: “Who Do I Talk To?” Helicopter Company
  • 7. A Case Study : Crisis in Algeria Embassy in Algeria 0 Days until shutdown.... Diplomat: “Who Do I Talk To?” Helicopter Compayny Policy Maker: Informed Diplomat
  • 8. A Case Study : Crisis in Algeria Embassy in Algeria 0 Days until shutdown.... Diplomat: “Who Do I Talk To?” Helicopter Company Policy Maker: Informed Diplomat “Real people and real companies suffer when diplomats can’t find the right people at the right time.”
  • 10. MVP 1: Connecting CSO to Embassy
  • 11. MVP 1: Connecting CSO to Embassy ● Reviewed With 2 policy makers, 8 diplomats Uniform feedback from Diplomats in Africa: “I do not have time to reupload this information.” x10 “Just make the policy makers read my cables.”
  • 13. MVP 2: Summarizing Classified Cables Use Natural Language Processing to “scrape” key - Names - Locations - Dates
  • 14. MVP 2: Summarizing Classified Cables ● Reviewed with 10 diplomats, 5 desk officers and 2 technologists Diplomat: “Foggy Bottom is a cable monster.” x10 Desk Officer : “Cables are classified, unaggregated and unstructured.” Policy Maker: “Cables don’t show relationships I need to know.”
  • 15. MVP 2: Summarizing Classified Cables Technologists Diplomats
  • 16. Customer Pivot From Policy Makers to Diplomats
  • 18. MVP 3: Contact Network Map
  • 19. MVP 3: Contact Network Map ● Reviewed With 8 diplomats Diplomats (Political/Economic): “I really only need this to map my 10 closest contacts.” “Finally, a product that addresses the needs of diplomats on the ground!
  • 20. Contact Management & Suggestion Diplomat (Public Affairs): “Hey wait, can this thing suggest people to invite to diplomatic functions?”
  • 21. Contact Management & Suggestion Diplomat (Public Affairs): “Hey wait, can this thing suggest people to invite to diplomatic functions?”
  • 22. Beneficiaries Mission AchievementMission Budget/Costs Buy-In/Support Deployment Value PropositionKey Activities Key Resources Key Partners CSO: Santiago - Writing report about Boko Haram Tyler - Analyzing relationship between known members of BH and unclassified actors Will Meeker - Travels to Nigeria for 2 years to generate contacts for CSO, get Santiago data Embassy Staff: LES: Locally engaged staff Caroline: Economic/ Political Officer at small Embassy in stable country James/Steve: Economic/ Political Officer at large Embassy in an unstable country Nick: Public Diplomacy Officer at busy Embassy S/ES& Special Projects Kapil Gupta: Commitment to show off our demonstrate prototype John Janek:Will send our prototype to Mauritania Embassy friends w/DCM Foreign Nationals:(OMS): Office Management Specialists and LES To implement and upkeep program at each embassy with updated information about contacts from events/meetings Individual FSO buy-in DCM to okay program at 1 embassy as test case and delegate time for FSO’s and LES to test/use Kapil Gupta: Commitment to show off our demonstrate prototype CSO Sponsor: Santiago Stocker IDEO team leader for QDDR A Dev Garden Consulting: TAP, SBIR, Accelerator/Combinator and Angel Funding consulting, connections, proposal writing Beta starts in Nigeria Embassy, with Vanguard newspaper(English) and twitter hexagon of Abuja Target 8 Countries in MENA- Saudi, Israel, Qatar... when NLP+AI perfected, final contract from DOS when product 3.0 ready for world-wide deployment Need CSO to continue connecting us upstream w/ former clients and downstream with data sources in field DCM initial support, for 1 or more POL/ECON sections FSO to implement first 10 names that come to mind, LES long term key holders Source Aggregation: Gives organizations the ability to identify most important actors in rapidly evolving situations using data mined from a breadth of sources. Hierarchy visualization:ensure people from all backgrounds can analyze and filter relevant data depending on their needs. Extraction/ Suggestion: Perform natural language processing on news articles, twitter and etc to extract categories and information for informal leaders. Suggest novel contacts for each FSO based on known network. Improve CSO’s ability to write relevant reports by giving them tools for passive “granular” data collection w/o Embassy involvement Provide long-term contact management, node mapping software, hierarchical ranking software, news feed of recent activity of known contacts new contacts discovery Contact suggestion that cuts reliable informant acquisition time in half Current contact management and information collection New contact discovery and understanding Previously published unclassified reports commissioned by DOS Nigerian news papers gurdian, sahara Times, Punch, Business day, Vanguard Polis Backbone SV companies /DOS projects who are working in a similar space aka SalesForce and Transparency team (partnerships) Immediate: MVP--> Prototype that integrates w/ DOS Blackberry Classic and Windows XP... sweat equity FY1: Deployment to 1 Embassy: Travel to Target Embassy, Legal Fees for DOS Cloud Review, 200 contract hours with AI & UIXUX FY2-4: NLP Non-Latin Script- LinguaSys GlobalNLP, Full Time AI expert to perfect contact suggestion, travel for sales/lobbying
  • 23. Beneficiaries Mission AchievementMission Budget/Costs Buy-In/Support Deployment Value PropositionKey Activities Key Resources Key Partners CSO: Santiago - Writing report about Boko Haram Tyler - Analyzing relationship between known members of BH and unclassified actors Will Meeker - Travels to Nigeria for 2 years to generate contacts for CSO, get Santiago data Embassy Staff: LES: Locally engaged staff Caroline: Economic/ Political Officer at small Embassy in stable country James/Steve: Economic/ Political Officer at large Embassy in an unstable country Nick: Public Diplomacy Officer at busy Embassy S/ES& Special Projects Kapil Gupta: Commitment to show off our demonstrate prototype John Janek:Will send our prototype to Mauritania Embassy friends w/DCM Foreign Nationals:(OMS): Office Management Specialists and LES To implement and upkeep program at each embassy with updated information about contacts from events/meetings Individual FSO buy-in DCM to okay program at 1 embassy as test case and delegate time for FSO’s and LES to test/use Kapil Gupta: Commitment to show off our demonstrate prototype CSO Sponsor: Santiago Stocker IDEO team leader for QDDR A Dev Garden Consulting: TAP, SBIR, Accelerator/Combinator and Angel Funding consulting, connections, proposal writing Beta starts in Nigeria Embassy, with Vanguard newspaper(English) and twitter hexagon of Abuja Target 8 Countries in MENA- Saudi, Israel, Qatar... when NLP+AI perfected, final contract from DOS when product 3.0 ready for world-wide deployment Need CSO to continue connecting us upstream w/ former clients and downstream with data sources in field DCM initial support, for 1 or more POL/ECON sections FSO to implement first 10 names that come to mind, LES long term key holders Source Aggregation: Gives organizations the ability to identify most important actors in rapidly evolving situations using data mined from a breadth of sources. Hierarchy visualization:ensure people from all backgrounds can analyze and filter relevant data depending on their needs. Extraction/ Suggestion: Perform natural language processing on news articles, twitter and etc to extract categories and information for informal leaders. Suggest novel contacts for each FSO based on known network. Improve CSO’s ability to write relevant reports by giving them tools for passive “granular” data collection w/o Embassy involvement Provide long-term contact management, node mapping software, hierarchical ranking software, news feed of recent activity of known contacts new contacts discovery Contact suggestion that cuts reliable informant acquisition time in half Current contact management and information collection New contact discovery and understanding Previously published unclassified reports commissioned by DOS Nigerian news papers gurdian, sahara Times, Punch, Business day, Vanguard Polis Backbone SV companies /DOS projects who are working in a similar space aka SalesForce and Transparency team (partnerships) Immediate: MVP--> Prototype that integrates w/ DOS Blackberry Classic and Windows XP... sweat equity FY1: Deployment to 1 Embassy: Travel to Target Embassy, Legal Fees for DOS Cloud Review, 200 contract hours with AI & UIXUX FY2-4: NLP Non-Latin Script- LinguaSys GlobalNLP, Full Time AI expert to perfect contact suggestion, travel for sales/lobbying Value Proposition Extraction/Suggestions Perform natural language processing on twitter and RSS feeds to extract categories and information for informal leaders. Suggest novel contacts for each FSO based on known network.
  • 26. IDEO Same conclusion State Department is in need of contact management solution. Did IDEO overreach? IDEO wanted to gut and replace entire workflow, instead of addressing specific pain points. What we learned Do not interrupt people’s existing workflow. 1 2 3
  • 27. Your team learned in 9 weeks what we did in 9 months. ” “
  • 28. Final MVP: Contact Management & Suggestion Twitter Known Contacts People You Should Connect With Connect Rotimi Akeredolu, Governor- Elect of Ondo State Connect Betty Akeredolu, founder and president of BRECAN, married to Rotimi Akeredolu Connect Simon Lalong, Nigerian lawyer and politician See More -> https://github.com/USStateDept/Polis
  • 29. Deploying AggregateDB to Fix Crisis in Algeria Embassy in Algeria Shorten to 7 Days using AggregateDB Diplomat: “Who Do I Talk To?” Helicopter Companies Policy Maker: Informed Diplomat
  • 30. Deploying AggregateDB to Fix Crisis in Algeria Embassy in Algeria Shorten to 7 Days using AggregateDB Diplomat: “Who Do I Talk To?” Helicopter Companies Policy Maker: Informed Diplomat Deploying AggregateDB To Fix Diplomacy Crises ● Deployment to target embassy - Mauritania ● Work w/ IIP for 8 embassy deployment