Hunger devastates people,
their dreams and their future.
Many people worldwide suffer from hunger.
Right now? At this moment? Above 800 million people -
- 15,000 children die every day.
By 2030 we don't want a single person in this world
to suffer from hunger.
To solve this problem, we use new digital technologies
and we trust in artificial intelligence.
Malnutrition has a significant impact
on the economic development of a country,
on the education of the children and on their future income.
Malnutrition, food insecurity and economic instability
are very often a vicious circle.
Only if we know exactly which people are starving,
we can help some effectively.
But it's often not obvious
that someone is suffering from hunger.
At this moment we try to reliably identifiy
malnourished children under five years.
Help for these children is particularly important
because cognitive and physical development
in this period is crucial.
Until recently, children have been measured manually by hand.
But that's unpleasant for them,
the data is incaccurate, and it takes a long time
until the data reaches us - to intervene and to help.
We started the pilot project in India.
The "Child Growth Monitor"-App enables us
to scan children in three dimensions.
An infrared sensor provides us with exact measured values
of the body and we can derive the nutritional staus.
The process only takes one minute
and thanks to Microsoft, the data is instantly available
to us, in the cloud, from anywhere.
Data becomes more and more important,
and if we want to solve future problems,
we have to master the data.
And Artificial Intelligence is the only solution to do that.
The "Child Growth Monitor" shows that new technologies
enable reliable data collection in developing economies
and even higher-quality data analysis, thanks to Microsoft AI.
Our innovative project, the "Child Growth Monitor",
can generate relevant efficiency gains
of hundreds of millions of euros per year in India alone.
This money can be reinvested on saving children's lives.
It's not only hunger. Our children will face many challenges,
such as climate change or ocean plastic pollution.
To give them the chance to solve their future problems,
we have to fight hunger now.
We need committed people who join us in the fight against hunger.
It's not them out there in Africa, in Asia, who suffer.
It's not them, the NGOs, who can really fulfil
and achieve that goal.
It's basically a society movement
we need in order to get to zero hunger by 2030 -
- and we have ten years to go.
So, it's worthwhile starting.