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Pulse Lab Kampala

About

Pulse Lab Kampala combines traditional data sources with new technologies to gain greater insight into how to better serve people living on the African continent.

The Lab was established as an inter-agency initiative under the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Uganda. It contributes to the UN’s ‘Delivering as One’ process by supporting joint programming, monitoring and evaluation to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Research and Policy Impact

The first innovation lab in Africa, Pulse Lab Kampala brings together data scientists, data engineers, partnership specialists, academics and technical experts who create high impact tools to address local and regional challenges. These innovative tools support UN partners and government in monitoring and responding to the needs of vulnerable populations, and in anticipating the impacts of crises for early mitigation and warning response. Through its extensive network of partners, Pulse Lab Kampala advances rights-centric innovation to ensure a safe and equitable digital future and continuously engages in knowledge sharing through workshops, events, and learning sessions.

Become A Pulse Lab Partner

Pulse Lab Kampala works with companies and organizations to utilize data analytics and new technologies to benefit all people in Africa.

Organizations can join our efforts by:

Becoming a research partner and working on a project with the Lab
Becoming a Data Philanthropy partner and sharing data sets for analysis
Becoming a technology partner and building prototypes or testing new tools
Sponsoring a Data Fellow to join the Pulse Lab
Providing funding, or in-kind, support to Pulse Lab Kampala

To collaborate with the Lab, please contact us at: pulselabkampala@unglobalpulse.org.

Read Our Latest Annual Report

Pulse Lab Kampala Progress Report 2016-2017

In 2016-2017, Pulse Lab Kampala worked with various UN agencies and development partners in Uganda and the region to test, explore and develop 17 innovation projects. The Lab also furthered the development of tools and technologies that leverage data sources from radio content, social media, mobile phones and satellite imagery, and created technology toolkits. These toolkits

Recent Blog Posts

News, thoughts and ideas about big data and AI, data privacy and ethics from the lab in Kampala. Read posts from the whole network on the blog.

Building ethical AI approaches in the African context

The UN Secretary-General’s Strategy on New Technologies calls for the responsible adoption of artificial intelligence and other frontier technologies — like the Internet of Things,

28 August 2019

When Old Technology Meets New: How UN Global Pulse is Using Radio and AI to Leave No Voice Behind

This story is a contribution by UN Global Pulse to a new series launched by the UN Foundation. The #InnovationInAction series showcases the many ways the United Nations

23 April 2019

Using Big Data and AI to Support Peace and Security Efforts in Africa

UN Global Pulse is working with partners to explore how data from social media and radio shows can inform peace and security efforts in Africa.

26 December 2018

Projects

Below you can find our eight latest examples of our collaborative research, prototypes and experiments, where we analyse digital data to advance global development, support humanitarian action, and promote peace. For more, go to the research projects page.

Radio Data

The Kampala Team

Charles Okua

Driver

Eric Eyotre

Language Analyst

Frida Hojvall

Programme Analyst

Janet Ndagire

Project Associate

Joseph Kambarage

Language Analyst

Martin Gordon Mubangizi

Officer - Data Science

Morine Amutorine

Analytics Associate

Pius Kavuma Mugagga

Data Engineer

Silas Labedo

Senior Data Engineer

Viola Paulynn Akuma

Project Officer

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