Projects
Crisismapping / Crowdsourcing / Data Collection / Geospatial Data / Global / Innovation / Mobile Phones / Remote Sensing / Social Media / Technology
Future of Real-Time Report
Prepared for the United Nations Global Pulse team, the Future of Real-Time Report identifies key trends emerging around the capture and transmission of real-time information streams. Evolving data-... Read More Coping / Data Collection / Global / Mobile Phones
Global Snapshot of Wellbeing - Mobile Survey
Description: The objective of this ongoing collaborative project is to experiment with new tools that can replicate the standards of traditional household surveys, in real-time on a global scale. In... Read More Coping / Global / Vulnerability
RIVAF Research: "Monitoring Household Coping Strategies During Complex Crises"
With support through Global Pulse’s “Rapid Impact and Vulnerability Assessment Fund,” United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) undertook a study to... Read More Data Analysis / Data Collection / Global / Vulnerability
Rapid Impact and Vulnerability Analysis Fund (RIVAF)
Under the umbrella of the Rapid Impact and Vulnerability Analysis Fund (RIVAF), Global Pulse supported a series of studies and research projects, which were undertaken by eleven UN agencies, between... Read More Data Collection / Global / India / Iraq / Mexico / Mobile Phones / Uganda / Ukraine
2010 Mobile Phone Survey
Global Pulse in partnership with MobileActive.org is conducting a mobile phone survey across multiple countries including Uganda, India, Mexico, Ukraine and Iraq. The survey is being conducted via... Read More Coping / Data Analysis / Data Collection / Economics/Finance / Global / Labour / Poverty / Trade / Women
RIVAF research: "Economic crisis, tourism decline and its impact on the poor"
As part of Global Pulse’s “Rapid Impact and Vulnerability Assessment Fund,” the United Nations World Tourism Organization (UNWTO) and the International Labour Organization (ILO) evaluated the direct... Read More Data Analysis / Data Collection / Global / Technology
Consultation: Bellagio Blue Sky Thinkers Workshop
The Global Pulse initiative has begun a series of consultations to solicit new and creative thinking for the development of the Global Pulse platform. As part of this series of consultations, the... Read More Global
Conceptual research: "Scoping of Vulnerability Definitions"
As part of the Global Pulse initiative's design and development phase, UNU-EHS prepared a series of expert studies to help the project gain a better understanding of how different communities of... Read More Data Collection / Global / Mobile Phones