Global Pulse Labs: Building Innovation Hubs at the Country Level
LabsMobile PhonesData VisualisationData CollectionData AnalysisTechnologyAuthor: Global PulseIn an increasingly interdependent and fast-changing world where crises emerge without warning, speed around...
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Digital Smoke Signals
ResearchCrowdsourcingData AnalysisData ExhaustInnovationMobile PhonesPovertyPulse LabsSocial MediaTechnologyVulnerabilityDigital Smoke SignalsAuthor: Robert KirkpatrickOver the years, governments,...
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"Reading List": Innovation, Intent and Capacity
ResearchSocial MediaMobile PhonesData AnalysisTechnologyReading ListAuthor: Emmanuel LetouzeOn a recent subway ride to work, I decided to catch up with some reading on my iPhone (instead of aimlessly...
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Laying the Groundwork for Pulse Lab Kampala
Uganda LabLabsMobile PhonesTechnologyPulse LabsInnovationPulse Lab KampalaAuthor: Chris Fabian For the past five months, UN Global Pulse has had a team of two Innovation Officers on the ground in...
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Exploring the Ecosystem for Pulse Lab Kampala
Uganda LabLabsAgricultureMobile PhonesData CollectionTechnologyGeospatial DataPulse LabsAuthor: Patrick Adengo and Gabriel WhiteSitting at the regularly jam-packed Mobile Monday events here in Kampala...
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Global Snapshot of Wellbeing - Mobile Survey
Description:The objective of this ongoing collaborative project is to experiment with new tools that can replicate the standards of traditional household surveys, in real-time on a global scale. In...
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Future of Real-Time Report
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...
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New iPad App Explores the Potential of Mobile Surveys
ResearchNewsData CollectionData VisualisationMobile PhonesmobilesurveyAuthor: Anoush Rima TatevossianGlobal Snapshot of Wellbeing - Mobile SurveyGlobal Pulse is excited to announce its contribution to...
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The Power of Big Data & Global Pulse Research (VIDEO)
ResearchNew York LabNewsData AnalysisData CollectionData ExhaustEconomics/FinanceInnovationMDGsMobile PhonesAuthor: Anoush Rima Tatevossian How do you find indicators for changes human well-being in...
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Enhancing Public Policy Decision Making using Large-Scale Cell Phone Data
ResearchData AnalysisData ExhaustEconomics/FinanceHealthMobile PhonesPovertymobilebig dataCDRdigital signalsAuthor: Vanessa Frias-Martinez and Enrique Frias-Martinze This article is part of a special...
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Inventory: Mobile Phone-Based Data Collection Projects
The use of mobile phones for quick-time data collection is proliferating around the world. To get a better understanding of the scale and scope of these new data collection efforts, the Global Pulse...
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A Visualization Challenge
ResearchNewsCopingData AnalysisData VisualisationMobile PhonesResilienceVisualizationAuthor: Anoush Rima Tatevossian2010 Mobile Phone Survey We are very excited to announce "Giving Voice to the...
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Information Seeking Behavior
ResearchSocial MediaMobile PhonesData CollectionData AnalysisAuthor: Miguel Luengo-OrozGlobal Pulse is looking for signals that could be used as proxy indicators for collective changes in human...
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“Visualize the Voices of the Vulnerable” Design Challenge Winners
ResearchCopingData AnalysisData VisualisationMobile PhonesResilienceAuthor: Miguel Luengo-Oroz2010 Mobile Phone Survey Last year, we launched a large-scale mobile phone based survey to ask people from...
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The New Data Landscape
ResearchData AnalysisData CollectionData ExhaustGeospatial DataMobile PhonesRemote SensingSocial MediaTechnologyAuthor: Global PulseGlobal Pulse is predicated on the understanding that today “new data”...
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