The Network’s goal is to defeat trafficking in the illicit massage industry. Integral to that is enabling a research ecosystem capable of achieving greater analytic sophistication than the strategies used by traffickers themselves. By combining infrastructure, domain-specific data engineering, and academic rigor, we aim to accelerate the pipeline from intelligence to insight to decision to measurable defeat against this target.
By concentrating first on a single form of trafficking – the illicit massage industry – they created a focused testing ground to develop and refine a scalable disruption methodology. The results suggest this approach may be adaptable to other forms of trafficking as well. Ian believes trafficking is not inevitable, but the solutions are rarely obvious. They emerge through ruthless focus, disciplined collaboration, and iterative learning.
Presenter: Ian Hassell
