Elastic Announces Honorees of Inaugural Elastic Cause Awards; Celebrates Passion and Devotion of Elastic Community and Their Projects Advancing the Greater Good - Seite 2

IST Research
IST Research is building technology to help fight human trafficking, slave trade, child soldier recruitment, and similar activities occurring around the world. Pulse is an Elastic-powered technology platform that identifies and communicates with at-risk populations in the two-thirds of the world that are not connected.

"The Elastic Stack enables us to deliver on our mission of protecting human security by delivering decision support to the edge, anywhere in the world," said Ryan Paterson, CEO and Founder of IST Research. "Because data streams can be collected and interpreted at large scale with the Elastic Stack, we're able to raise awareness and help shape responses to the global nature of the human security problems and demonstrate how at-risk individuals are being exploited everywhere in the world."

NoSchoolViolence.org
NoSchoolViolence.org is committed to reducing the near million incidences of U.S. cases of school bullying, fighting, drug use, sexual harassment, vandalism, gang activities, stealing, weapons use, threats, intimidation, ostracizing, and cyber-bullying annually. Its web-based app, The Lantern^TM, is an Elasticsearch-powered database, designed to help parents, students, school staff, researchers, and counselors translate a knowledge of how student behavioral patterns are related to specific forms of violence into new intervention programs.

"From day one, we knew we needed a search solution that could ingest a wide range of data formats and grow with us as we conducted more complicated search and analytics activities while providing important data visualization capabilities," said Dr. Paul Privateer, Founding Director of NoSchoolViolence.org. "Elasticsearch drives The Lantern school security database, providing a straightforward way for users to eventually query millions of databases, police records, journal articles, school records, media reports, medical data, student journals, social media, and miscellaneous information since 1955 to illuminate connections between hidden behaviors and most forms of student violence."

Elastic Cause Award finalists include:

• Computer Science Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid: Simplifying drug package leaflets
• Full Visibility and cloudpainter: Capturing artistic style with painting robots
• Guide Dogs Association and Microsoft: Built a prototype application to improve independent mobility and navigation for people with sight loss
• Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders): Improving staff information sharing, decision making, and organizational efficiency
• Middlesex University: Helping police intelligence analysts make better sense of their data
• National Centre for Flora Conservation / Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden: Assessing flora extinction risk
• The Nature Conservancy: Network security monitoring for global conservation projects
• Public Ministry of the State of Goias, Brazil: Staff document search, aggregation and efficiency

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