Intelligent CIO Middle East Issue 50 | Page 61

CASE STUDY and the authority focuses on empowering them socially and financially. Our approach involves assessing their situation, to see what they have, what challenges they currently face and provide a plan of action that will enable them to overcome the challenges socially. Afterwards, we assess their ability about whether they can go back to work or to their own businesses. How are you using IT systems to deliver these services? IT systems enhance our efforts to collect social data. However, at present we are still working on this as a relatively new initiative because these are impact-based programmes. There is a need for us to develop our own model because there is no one-size-fits all programme for social behaviour monitoring and social change monitoring. As every country has their own model based on its own cultural and social performances, thus, it also has its own specific method of measuring change. We have implemented a three-stage programme, starting with the gathering of data and analysing it. We look forward to automating the entire case management in the future through Artificial Intelligence. Our empowerment team is working on an in-house programme called the Social Risk Matrix which identifies clients and www.intelligentcio.com WE CANNOT ANALYSE THE DATA BASED ON A SINGLE SOURCE, WHICH MAKES IT NECESSARY TO APPLY THE 360-DEGREE VIEW. categorises them and provides corrective as well as preventive action from a social level. It will read all the factors, identify them and automate the case management. In terms of changing people’s behaviour, there must be a representative from the government sector to monitor that change. We have appointed case managers that sit with these clients to address their need for support in terms of putting up a plan and the steps for them to implement change, from the stage where they depend on government funds to the point that they can depend on themselves. To monitor behaviour and change in the social sector takes a lot of focus, sustenance and monitoring. For this aspect, it is not possible to fully automate this type of service as the whole concept significantly requires a human element to effect the changes. We automate as much as we can up to the stage of automating the empowerment plan, the training, upscaling of the plan or even the timetable throughout this important journey. Empowerment focuses first on awareness, then upscaling and job placement, training and development and self-training. Within the plan, we put all these elements together and the plan works as a reminder and monitors the performance of the clients. In the future, we look to move towards implementing Machine Learning, where we plan to develop the KPIs from the social sector to measure the impact that we are creating within the community. INTELLIGENTCIO 61