Calling all researchers! “Data for Development” – an unprecedented open data challenge led by global telecommunications company France Telecom-Orange, in partnership with GSMA Development Fund, MIT MediaLab, University of Louvain (UCL), Université de Bouaké, the World Economic Forum and UN Global Pulse - is open for applications.
Orange will make 2.5B anonymized records of 5 million mobile...
Description:
This project finds emerging trends and organizes thematic clusters in news related to food security issues in French language media from the last 8 years using automated text analysis, semantic clustering and networks theory.
Partners:
The Complex Systems Institute of Paris Île-de-France (ISC-PIF, www.iscpif.fr) - CAMS, CNRS, CorText, CREA, Ecole Polytechnique, ESIEE, Formism, IFRIS...
Sitting at the regularly jam-packed Mobile Monday events here in Kampala it’s always astounding to see how vibrant the technology scene is in Uganda. The group that meets almost every month represents a wonderful cross-section of what’s going on here: from students overflowing with ideas about how mobile technology can change the world, to leaders from multi-national telcos pushing their networks...
For the past five months, UN Global Pulse has had a team of two Innovation Officers on the ground in Uganda. The team has been working closely with the Global Pulse staff in New York to lay the groundwork for establishing a Pulse Lab, located in Kampala. This work comes from a request by the Permanent Mission of Uganda to the UN General Assembly that Uganda to be the host country for the first...
To support the international community in combating the criminal exploitation of migrants, UNODC conducted research aimed at monitoring smuggling in different regions of the world. This study, conducted as part of Global Pulse's "Rapid Impact and Vulnerability Assessment Fund" was carried out in Central America and Mexico, and assesses the risks, social costs and hardships of migrants seeking a...
The World Food Program (WFP) and the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) undertook several steps to enhance their food security and nutrition monitoring capacities in response to the high commodity food and fuel process and global financial crises. Since the onset of the global crises, both WFP and UNICEF have significantly contributed to country-wide initiatives piloting more consistent,...
As part of Global Pulse’s “Rapid Impact and Vulnerability Assessment Fund,” United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) conducted three case studies in Colombia, Jordan and Ethiopia with a focus on how the global economic crisis impacts health and poverty.
In Jordan, while government expenditures to reproductive health services had not changed, focus group discussions indicated that increases in...
As part of UN Global Pulse’s “Rapid Impact and Vulnerability Assessment Fund,” UNESCO researched the implications of the global financial crisis on school conditions and resources by examining how primary schools, teachers and households adapt and cope with global crises.
While there have been numerous studies on the effects of macroeconomic shocks on households and the demand for schooling,...