A computer system is much more than just code: it consists of technology, its users and the processes that they follow. User experience (UX) covers all aspects of users’ interaction with products and services and how they are perceived, learnt and used. UX design prioritizes human values and relationships in the development of technology, to derive maximum value from our interactions with it. It...
Last December, Global Pulse convened Pulse Camp, a workshop to kick off technology and process design for real-time vulnerability awareness. We already understood that to rapidly identify emerging crises, we needed a mechanism or ecosystem that would create information flows from the bottom up.
Establishing in-country innovation labs would be an important first step in building out local networks...
Our international development colleagues sometimes describe the Global Pulse tech work as “that weird stuff over there.” I suspect we do a little more than that, and that it’s worth explaining the tech every so often.
With that, these are the five big things going on with Global Pulse technology at the moment, and how to get involved in them:
Hunchworks
This is one of the most exciting projects...