Part of Global Pulse’s work is to catalyze and encourage new methods and approaches for analyzing and using information and data. In a world where we are saturated with data, the skillsets of information designers, infographic artists and visual thinkers will become increasingly valuable for presenting complex information in effective, memorable and easy to digest ways. In our ongoing quest to...
Originally posted by JustMeans on June 29, 2010.The Secretariat General has also launched the UN Global Impact Vulnerability Alert System (UN GIVAS) which has recently been re-named 'Global Pulse.' This new agency is using emerging technologies in ways never done before to do critical work: monitoring in as close to real-time as possible the changing conditions of vulnerable people. In it's own...