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What progress has been made to date with Global Pulse since the first Voices of the Vulnerable Report last September?

  •  We have begun building a core team with expertise in global development, data analysis, and emerging technologies, including staff seconded from WFP, UNDP, UNICEF, and UNDPI.
  •  We have launched our new website, http://unglobalpulse.org, and have renamed GIVAS, the “Global Impact and Vulnerability Alert System,” to GLOBAL PULSE.
  •  We have released the Secretary-General’s second report on the impact of the economic crisis, Voices of the Vulnerable: Recovery from the Ground Up.
  • We have begun work on nine RIVAF (Rapid Impact and Vulnerability Analysis Fund) projects, which are multi-agency partnerships to drive innovation in cross-sectoral rapid analysis. These studies examine the impact of the crisis on sectors such as crime, health, gender, migration, children, and food security.
  •  We have partnered with NGO MobileActive on the creation of a global inventory of mobile data collection initiatives that has already identified more than 100 cases where mobile phones are being used to gather information in ways that might be useful to Global Pulse.
  •  We have partnered with NGO QuestionBox on a project to explore the potential of community information services as human sensor networks for detecting early impacts and emerging vulnerabilities.
  •  We have created a tagged and full-text searchable library of more than 100 reports from UN agencies UN country teams, and partners.