How do you find indicators for changes human well-being in “big data”? How do you know which “digital signals” are relevant enough to warrant further investigation? These questions are at the core of Global Pulse’s research.
The video below, from Global Pulse’s 8 November briefing to the UN General Assembly, provides a succinct overview of five research projects we completed with our partners (...
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...
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...
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...
Over the years, governments, development organizations and the private sector have invested untold billions in creating mobile phone-powered programs and services with the potential to help people lift themselves out of poverty and realize their dreams.
Wherever people are using mobile phones to access digital services and participate in development programs, they are leaving trails behind in the...
Many members of the development and technical communities seem to share a common vocabulary when it comes to the values and priorities that information and communication technologies (ICTs) need to serve. Many of us talk about participation, supporting communities and relief organizations in responding effectively to crises, improving lives of the poor and marginalized with solutions adapted to...
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Global Pulse Director Robert Kirkpatrick spoke today at a panel discussion at the UN Week Digital Media Lounge in New York City.
New technologies are tackling old challenges. Innovative information and communication technologies are accelerating progress toward meeting the MDGs. Join this discussion with ICT for development experts as they look at who is pushing the innovation envelope, and how...