Obsalytics
Building Data-Informed Observatories and Knowledge Bases for Better Societies
Observatory + Analytics = Obsalytics
Obsalytics is a social enterprise incorporated under the Canadian Not-for-profit Corporations Act in 2020. Through its products and services, Obsalytics aims to achieve the following three main goals:
Inform
The Canadian public, private, and non-profit sectors on sanctioned and politically exposed persons involved in rebuilding war-torn regions
Empower
Refugees and displaced persons to pursue their rights and access justice in local and universal jurisdictions using data and knowledge
Support
Political and social change by promoting transparency and accountability of prominent entities across all sectors of society
Our Vision
We believe that the future of the deep change efforts exerted by all active forces in the modern societies responding to the complex challenges will pivot on decision support systems that harness the accumulated knowledge to have better comprehension for ecosystems and change trends.
Key Challenges Obstructing Progress
While addressing complex political, economic, or sociological problems, decision makers in governments and active forces in societies are expected to deal with formidable, entangled, and accumulated data in their pursuit to making wise decisions. In almost all cases, they are faced with four main challenges that could easily hinder their decisions:
- Poor realization of the historical roots of the contemporary scene
- Poor realization of the various aspects of the matter in question
- Poor realization of the ecosystem and stakeholders
- Implementing inappropriate solutions for the context, epoch, geography, or stakeholders
Our Solutions
Establish AI & big data-driven observatories and knowledge bases to empower the targeted segments of beneficiaries with interactive dashboards – geographical and temporal relationship-networks maps + system maps – supported by advanced strategic and operational analytics, to enable:
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- Better Understanding of Ecosystems and General Scenes
- Detect Power Centers and Gaps
- Develop Scenarios, Predict, & Develop Appropriate Action Plans to Handle the Complex Issues
Build a platform for communities of practice & interest empowered with well-designed collaborative activities that activates the collective intelligence to maximize the benefits of the observatories and knowledge bases.
Offer training packages to empower the targeted segments of beneficiaries to utilize the observatories and knowledge bases in the most effective ways to accomplish their missions.
Our Partners
Our Products
OPEN - Syria
Observatory of Political and Economic Networks (OPEN)-Syria Program: is a platform for visualizing the published, accumulated, and constantly changing data of people and organizations – and their inter-relationships – that are contributing in the political and economic scenes. OPEN will publish analytical reports targeting research, media, civil society, government, and private sectors.
Program Manager: Wael Alalwani
Wael Alalwani is a data scientist focusing on political economy analysis. An expert in artificial intelligence and data science and a financial crimes analyst. Specialist in graph technologies and social network analysis. Wael has published various data-driven projects in the Middle East and Canada, and has published and translated many articles and books on self-organization and self-management. Interested in systems thinking, investigative journalism, and data management.
He worked at Deloitte, TD Bank, and other companies in Canada and the Middle East. He worked as a technical manager at one of the top MENA organizations focusing on MDM studies, Arabi Facts Hub.
OPEN - Iraq
Observatory of Political and Economic Networks (OPEN)-Iraq Program: is a platform for visualizing the published, accumulated, and constantly changing data of people and organizations – and their inter-relationships – that are contributing in the political and economic scenes. OPEN will publish analytical reports targeting research, media, civil society, government, and private sectors.
Program Manager: Shermeen Sarbast
Shermeen Sarbast is a data researcher and international relations analyst with special focus on political economy trends. Her work focuses on leveraging data to approach geopolitical studies from a quantitative perspective. She has worked with several data-focused projects covering Iran, Syria, Iraq and other Middle Eastern countries.
She worked at Al Jazeera Media Network in global branding and outreach, during the onset of the Infodemic era of social media. She later worked as a project manager at one of the top MENA organizations focusing on MDM studies, Arabi Facts Hub. Where she oversaw and participated in research around information disorder in MENA and the scale of generative AI’s role.
In the last two years, she co-founded research initiatives that harness open source intelligence and process it into analysis-ready databases, which is later used to map networks, identify economic trends and conclude policy recommendations.
Generals of Gold
Generals of Gold is a project composed of 12 episodes where we present the intertwined relations of Egypt’s military generals and businessmen across kinship, affection, official positions, and benefit-based networks. Our network visualization and analytical articles show the various conflict of interests and a systematic exploitation of the Egyptian economy favoring the ruling elites
Our Team
We are a small group of passionate individuals with various skills covering: Data Analysis, AI, Graph Technologies, AML, OSINT, Economic Analysis, Socio-political Analysis, and Change Theories,
Contact Us
We would love to hear from you
Suite 500, 7030 Woodbine Avenue
Markham, ON, L3R 6G2
info@obsalytics.org