Innovation
Below are all our blog posts with the tag "Innovation"
Alternative Use of Traditional Data in Times of COVID-19
Now nearing the end of September 2020, Indonesia has reported almost 275,000 COVID-19 cases since the first confirmed case in early March. Just in terms of the number of detected
Extending the Art of the Possible with Big Data to Better Inform COVID-19 Responses
Faizal, our humanitarian data advisor and one of the co-authors of this piece, often recounts what one of his supervisors said to him from his days as an information management
New decade, renewed priorities for UN Global Pulse
It’s been a decade since UN Global Pulse was set up inside the office of the UN Secretary-General to unearth the power of big data and analytics to protect vulnerable
At the world’s largest ML conference, UN Global Pulse co-hosts AI for Social Good workshop
This week, we’re attending the Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) conference in Vancouver, one of the premier machine learning gatherings in the world, with around 13,000 people joining this year.
Imagining The Year 2030
Dwayne Carruthers has been working as a communications specialist with Pulse Lab Jakarta for over two years. He recently came to our New York Lab to assist with UNGA 2019.
Data and AI for Progress during UNGA
Innovation activities across the UN today are looking to modernize how we operate, how we function more effectively in the digital landscape, and how we adopt a more proactive approach
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, cybersecurity, blockchain, robotics, autonomous vehicles,
UN Global Pulse, Dataminr Partnership Equips UN Teams with AI Tech to Keep Abreast of Crises
Photo credit: @UNHCR Innovation Knowledge is power, and when it’s delivered in real time, it can save lives and help communities thrive. Dataminr’s product for first responders is now in use
Global Pulse and Dataminr Partner to Use Artificial Intelligence for Humanitarian Response
(New York and Geneva, 28 May 2019) UN Global Pulse and Dataminr, the leading AI platform for first response, today announced a partnership at the AI for Good Global Summit in Geneva, Switzerland. The partnership
