Proof-of-Concept
Below are all our blog posts with the tag "Proof-of-Concept"
Understanding Population Movement After the 2018 Central Sulawesi Natural Disasters
Through a shared value partnership with mobile telecom Digicel, Pulse Lab Jakarta (PLJ) over the past few years has investigated how pseudonymised mobile network data from subscribers in the Pacific

Scaling Big Data Applications for Good – Global Pulse at the World Data Forum
UN Global Pulse hosted three sessions at the World Data Forum, including a plenary on how to scale big data applications for the SDGs, gathering more than 1,000 participants. Representatives

UN Global Pulse Hosts Big Data for Development Session at the UN World Data Forum
On Monday, 16 January 2017, UN Global Pulse hosted a session on ‘Big Data Innovations for Sustainable Development’ during the inaugural UN World Data Forum. This week, government representatives, along

UNDP and UN Global Pulse release practical guide to designing data innovation projects
A how-to resource for development practitioners to help advance data innovation efforts for the Sustainable Development Goals UNDP and UN Global Pulse today released a comprehensive guide on how to

10 big data science challenges facing humanitarian organizations
This article was originally published in the UN’s refugee agency UNHCR Innovation website: http://innovation.unhcr.org/10-big-data-science-challenges-facing-humanitarian-organizations/. Big data refers to the astonishing amount of information that is created as a by-product of the

Global Pulse at the 71st UN General Assembly
World leaders are gathering this week for the 71st UN General Assembly at UN Headquarters in New York. UN Global Pulse, along with collaborators and partners, is involved in a

Guest Post: Reflections on lessons learned from big data projects
This guest post is a Q&A with Meredith Blair Pearlman, Evaluation and Learning Manager at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. It is Part III of a series of posts

Learning Through Experimentation: A Look at Two New Big Data Innovation Projects
This is Part I of a series of posts on a collaboration between UN Global Pulse and the Packard Foundation. The collaboration emphasized the “learning by doing” process of designing a

Engaging citizens to collect daily food prices in rural Indonesia – a proof of concept project
Pulse Lab Jakarta has just wrapped up the first phase of a food security monitoring deployment in collaboration with Premise and in close cooperation with World Food Programme & Food