Is the city safe? Mine Crime tells you

THE STARTUP INCUBATED BY B4I, HEADED BY GIACOMO SALVANELLI, USES AI TO CREATE RISK INDICATORS ON CRIME IN NEIGHBORHOODS, WHICH THEN SELLS TO THE MARKET

Creating a network of commercial activities and citizens who share a participatory and circular conception of urban security: this is the aim of Mine Crime, a startup born at the end of 2020 and incubated and accelerated by B4i – Bocconi for Innovation, which transforms Big Data in risk indicators thanks to Artificial Intelligence (AI), then proposes them to the market as a new service with the intention of reiterating the social advantages AI can bring. The long-term idea is to incentivize large companies and especially SMEs to feed data on the level of security in urban neighborhoods. By providing information to local news, businesses are rewarded through Mine Crime by receiving a preferential treatment from customers who register on the system. "Italy is at the bottom of the European rankings for the use of open data according to the Open Data Barometer. It is difficult for a citizen and for a company to access certified and clear information”, explains Giacomo Salvanelli, General Manager of Mine Crime.

“On the corporate front, in particular, we study further solutions for SMEs but also for large companies, for example those that manage shopping malls or are present in areas such as railway stations. Thanks to their data”, concludes the co-founder of the start-up which works on 16,000 data sources, “the AI learns to know any pockets of illegal activity that may exist even in neighborhoods considered peaceful or, conversely, indicates there are safe transit areas and malls even in areas considered risky". Artificial Intelligence therefore evolves, increasing its ability to analyze reality and translating its results into various knowledge tools available to civil society for money or for free. It ranges from maps of neighborhoods with data on criminal activities recorded and safety ratings for individual areas or more in-depth, organic reports. After transforming big data into risk indicators thanks to AI, the newborn company also offers among the publication of reports, the planning of crime prevention events, as well as training courses.

by Camillo Papini
Translated by Alex Foti