A number of recently published studies and articles suggest that mining the Web may impact public health in ways that bear significance on Global Pulse’s approach to social impact monitoring in the digital age. Here is a recap of some of the most relevant studies and articles:
Syndromic Surveillance and More
One potential application is syndromic surveillance as part of an emerging field known...
Global Pulse is excited to announce its contribution to a unique new iPad app, called “PopTech: World Rebalancing,” which is available now from the Apple app store. The interactive app was developed by PopTech, and incorporates some of the preliminary results from Global Pulse’s Global Snapshot of Wellbeing project, a collaboration with Jana to experiment with replicating the standards of...
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-rich technologies are providing organizations, governments and businesses with a rapid way to monitor the well-being of communities and individuals without significant infrastructure or spend. For...
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 particular, Jana and Global Pulse are testing the potential of deploying mobile surveys, over SMS, in multiple countries. The project will also explore the feasibility of conducting longitudinal...
This weekend I was in Toronto at the 3rd global event of Random Hacks of Kindness (a global community of software developers and designers building practical open technology to solve international development problems), thinking about humanitarian innovations.Innovation starts when someone has an idea, a sense that they can make something in the world work better. So far so good, but an idea...
2011: What's ahead
2011 will be the year that Global Pulse moves from design into implementation.
Technology developmentSara Farmer will join the team this month as Chief Platform Architect and will spearhead the design and development of the core architecture for our technology platform, with considerable assistance coming through a series of public events in collaboration with the global...
On December 3rd 2010, Global Pulse co-hosted a reception for the second Random Hacks of Kindness hackathon in New York City. Speakers included United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon; NASA Deputy Adminstrator Lori Garver; Alfred Spector, VP of Research & Special Initiatives, Google Inc.; Patrick Svenburg, Director of Government Innovation, Microsoft; and Joel Towers, dean of Parsons The...
The first day of Pulse Camp was rainy and dark, but the mix of technology experts, UN agency experts, and academics from around the world showed up with energy, ready to lend their expertise to the Global Pulse to start brainstorming on how the Pulse platform can be built in a collaborative and open manner.
Soon-Hong Choi, the Chief Information and Technology Officer of the UN, opened the day...
Following up on yesterday’s post on Platform Requirements for Global Pulse, I wanted to talk about our Open Architecture strategy. A few observations:
We really don’t want to build this platform from scratch.
There are great tools out there that we could integrate to get us quite far along toward an end-to-end implementation. If we come up with some sensible, workable APIs, many existing...