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.
Organizations can join our efforts by:
To collaborate with the Lab, please contact us at: pulselabkampala@unglobalpulse.org.
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
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.
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,
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
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.
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.
Below you can find the newest digital tools and microsites from Pulse Lab Kampala. For more, go to the microsites & tools page.
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