UN global pulse lab Kampala

1. Pulse Lab Kampala
A Data Revolution
for Sustainable Development
In Action

2. Paula
Hidalgo-Sanchis, PhD
Manager, Pulse Lab Kampala
!

3. Global Pulse
“…now is the
time to take
innovation to
the next
level…”
Pulse Lab
NYC
Est. 2010
Pulse Lab
Jakarta
Est. 2012
Pulse Lab
Kampala
Est. 2013
a lab network

4. Data Revolution = Opportunity
“...Using big data…offers
major opportunities for
designing and implementing
both the post-2015 agenda
and humanitarian
responses…” (Helen!Clark)

5. Big Data: data, data, everywhere!
Taking the Pulse

6. Cost of data
collection
Risk of data
collection
Speed of
response
Adaptive
execution
New insights
Use for development?
A real-time map
of poverty in Cote d’Ivoire?

7. How do we work?

8. UN Delivering
as One!

9. at
Pulse Lab Kampala…

10. Responding to disease outbreaks with CDRs

11. Understanding human mobility with GPS data

12. Gulu!district!2012!
Gulu!district!2014!
Monitoring poverty with “machine counting”

13. Monitoring the environment with satellite imagery

14. Implementing community reporting

15. Analyzing people’s voices with radio mining

16. Analyzing people’s voices with radio data

17. Resources!needed!to!handle!“the!high!cases!of!
domes=c!violence!in!this!country.”!
Poli=cian!condemned!violence!against!women!by!
saying!that!“men!are!the!custodians!of!women”!
Call!for!a!dedicated!police!unit!to!handle!cases!of!
gender!based!violence.!
Filter:
violence and (gender or women or
sexual or domestic)!
Filter:
disease or health
!
There!has!not!previously!been!much!focus!on!cancer!
in!Uganda.!
Reloca=on!of!health!centers!in!Mbarara!district.!
Overuse!of!an=bio=cs!for!chicken!is!reducing!their!
effec=veness!for!humans.!

18. Inthepipeline…
Poverty trends - roof counting
Vulnerability - mobile top ups
Next elections – online digital print

20. Thank you!
Visit us:
http://www.unglobalpulse.org/
kampala