ChildPPa.
Technological solution to provide digital identity to unidentified minors.
What is ChildPPa.
ChildPPa is a technological solution that allows organizations in the humanitarian sector to protect unidentified minors, register their identity with high accuracy and manage their data in a more efficient, transparent and secure way.
Through facial biometric recognition software and artificial intelligence
Through facial biometrics and the use of artificial intelligence, it is possible to recognize children univocally and with high reliability, allowing to speed up their identification processes, as well as to increase the efficiency of the work with them while improving their protection.
Detected need:
Problems in identification and inefficiency in the protection work of street children in India.
Solution:
Creation of a user-friendly tool that allows social organizations to register their beneficiaries with high accuracy and manage their data efficiently, transparently and securely.
Technology that makes a difference for vulnerable children
High precision
The digital image processing technology and the artificial intelligence applied allow for a univocal identification of the child, even when a long period of time of months or even years elapses between different recording moments.
Portable
Our solution dispenses with the use of specific hardware and simply uses smartphones. This simplifies operations for social workers using everyday tools that they are already used to, minimizing the points of failure when using it.
Affordable
The reuse, adaptation and improvement of existing technologies in the market and the collaboration with different organizations allow us to offer sophisticated solutions at an affordable price for social entities
Projects and Use Cases.
10 million children live alone on the streets of India, prey to disease, malnutrition and child trafficking mafias that take advantage of their inability to provide their identity to exploit them through labor, sexual abuse, organ trafficking and drugs. Every day 174 children disappear in the country.
ChildMISS is a network of over 80 NGOs interoperating to identify and protect street children in India. We partnered with Don Bosco Youth at Risk since 2017 to increase their impact through technological innovation.
ChildPPa was co-created with Don Bosco, piloted in New Delhi and Bangalore and we are currently scaling the solution to other cities.
ChildPPa fue co-creada con Don Bosco, pilotada en Nueva Delhi y Bangalore y actualmente estamos escalando la solución a otras ciudades.
According to a Human Rights Watch study, there are more than 150,000 unprotected and exploited talibé children in Senegal.
A validation campaign of the first version of the tool was conducted in 2019 with a sample of 200 minors. Children targeted by a program for the protection and education of Talibé children, under a network of NGOs interested in creating an accurate database to improve interventions and policies for the protection of these minors.
Prizes and awards.
The EU Prize for Women Innovators celebrates the women entrepreneurs behind game-changing innovations. Arancha Martinez, Child PPa founder, received this recognition because of the innovation, impact and inspiration Child PPa represents.
UNICEF Lab Demo Day champion 2020 as best social innovation project for child protection.
Humanitarian Technology award 2019, which promotes the humanitarian use of technology in order to build a better world.
World Summit Award champion 2020 as one of the best 40 technological solutions worldwide to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.
Recognition go!ODS 2020 for its contribution towards the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 1: End of poverty.
Connecting for Good award for best social TIC 2017. Thanks to the award, the project was presented in the Mobile World Congress 2018.
Project ecosystem.
In the media.
- La Sexta
- Libertad Digital
- Fundación SERES
- iSocial Foundation
- Fundación Princesa Girona
- Economía de hoy
Frequently asked questions.
- 2017. Research on the reliability of biometrics in minors and other groups such as migrants, refugees or victims of trafficking to ensure scalability of the project.
- 2018. Pilot in India in 5 centers of the ChildMiss network.
- 2019. Pilot in Senegal in collaboration with Coopera ONDG and Maison de la Gare in St Louis, Senegal + Support for the creation of a Child Protection network in Sierra Leone with Child Heroes and Don Bosco Fambul.
- 2020. Stoppage of pilots due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Learning process and incorporation of tool improvements.
- 2023. Development of version 2.0 of the tool by AWS + implementation of the new version in the network of centers in India.
The big problem of identity.
There are around 166 million “invisible” children under 5 years of age in the world, without something as basic as identity (UNICEF, 2019) This prevents them from accessing a number of basic rights and resources for health, education or social support.
Even when registered, 237 million children under 5 lack a birth certificate (1 in 3).
Child PPa is a social venture led by it-willbe.org, designed in collaboration with multiple stakeholders with the shared mission of making every child in the world visible to count.
In India, more than 10 million minors live on the streets, victims of disease, malnutrition and human trafficking mafias. In addition, these minors usually have no documentation to prove their identity, so the system itself leaves them outside the government’s health care or education networks.
If they disappear in the hands of a mafia, it doesn’t matter, they didn’t exist either…
