When a natural disaster hits, rapid responses are essential to assess the damage quickly and to direct humanitarian relief efforts where they are needed the most. Experts and data scientists from...
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When a natural disaster hits, rapid responses are essential to assess the damage quickly and to direct humanitarian relief efforts where they are needed the most. Experts and data scientists from...
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Abstract: The spread of infectious diseases such as COVID-19 presents many challenges to healthcare systems and infrastructures across the world, exacerbating inequalities and leaving the world’s...
By Mike Pizzi, UN Global Pulse Human Rights Digital Fellow and JFI Fellow and Mila Romanoff, Privacy Specialist and Data Governance and Policy Lead at UN Global Pulse The AI governance challenge is...
Declaración conjunta de la OMS, las Naciones Unidas, el UNICEF, el PNUD, la UNESCO, ONUSIDA, la UIT, la iniciativa Pulso Mundial de las Naciones Unidas y la Federación Internacional Sociedades de la...
New York, 23 September 2020 -- The World Health Organization (WHO) together with the UN, specialised agencies and partners today called on countries to develop and implement action plans to promote...
Declaración conjunta de la OMS, ONU, UNICEF, PNUD, UNESCO, ONUSIDA, UIT, ONU Global Pulse e IFRC Manejo de la infodemia de COVID-19: promoción de comportamientos saludables y mitigación del daño de...
Déclaration conjointe de l’OMS, des Nations Unies, de l’UNICEF, du PNUD, de l’UNESCO, de l’ONUSIDA, de l’UIT, de l’initiative Global Pulse et de la FICR 23 septembre 2020 La maladie à coronavirus...
Joint statement by WHO, UN, UNICEF, UNDP, UNESCO, UNAIDS, ITU, UN Global Pulse, and IFRC The Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) is the first pandemic in history in which technology and social media are...
Approaches to data collection for development programming have commonly relied on official statistical data in combination with surveys to plan, implement and monitor progress and impact for...
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By Felicia Vacarelu, Communications Specialist, UN Global Pulse. Study by Katherine Hoffmann Pham and Miguel Luengo-Oroz Ships are an important means of transportation for both people and goods,...
By Felicia Vacarelu, Communications Specialist, & Tomaz Logar, Big Data Engineer, UN Global Pulse For the past three years, we, at UN Global Pulse, have been working with UNOSAT to build a software...
Felicia Vacarelu, Communication Specialist, UN Global Pulse Knowledge is power, and when it’s delivered in real time, it can save lives and help communities thrive. Dataminr’s product for first...
(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...
INTRODUCTION The Secretary-General emphasized in his Strategy on New Technologies (2018) the opportunities offered by digital technologies for accelerating the implementation of SDG 16 and enhancing...
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The volcanic eruptions over the past couple years on the island of Ambae in Vanuatu have forced hundreds of residents to evacuate. Through its partnership with Digicel(one of the local mobile network...
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PROGRAMME AREA: Humanitarian Action LAB: Pulse Lab New York SUMMARY: Despite policy and media attention and a significant increase in search and rescue efforts, the number of deaths of refugees and...
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Paula Hidalgo-Sanchis, Manager, Pulse Lab Kampala _Applying AI to transform public radio content into insights for development and humanitarian action _ Hosting over 1.2 million refugees from South...
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Authors/editor(s): Claudia Abreu Lopes and Savita Bailur This report outlines the value of big data (organic, unstructured data) for monitoring the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in relation to...
By Katherine Hoffmann The International Organization for Migration (IOM) recently released a new report on migrant deaths and disappearances entitled: Fatal Journeys Volume 3 - Part I: Improving Data...
UN Global Pulse and UNHCR published today a white paper entitled “Social Media and Forced Displacement: Big Data Analytics & Machine-Learning.” The paper is the result of an experimental project...