This primer - or "Big Data 101" specifically for the international development and humanitarian communities - explains the concepts behind using Big Data for social good in easy-to-understand language. Published by the United Nations' Global Pulse initiative, which is exploring how new, digital data sources and real-time analytics technologies can help policymakers understand human well-being and emerging vulnerabilities in real-time. www.unglobalpulse.org
Restaurants Industry: Social Media Benchmarks & Impact ReportTrackMaven
Who's serving up better social media: fast food or full-service restaurants? And which social strategies set today's leading restaurant brands apart?
We analyzed a year's worth of social media content from leading restaurant brands to find out. Learn which social networks drive the greatest impact for your peers, and see how your brand measures up against industry-specific benchmarks.
Global socio-economic, demographic and technological forces that HP calls Megatrends will have a sustained and transformative impact on businesses, societies, economies, cultures and our personal lives in unimaginable ways in the years to come.
Interested in learning more about Megatrends? Visit hpmegatrends.com.
**Please note this presentation was developed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, so although we don’t address it directly, we do speak to the innovations and solutions that exist beyond it. We hope this knowledge opens a window of hope and possibility to what awaits us on the road ahead.
This presentation is an updated and diluted version of an earlier slides deck (see http://bit.ly/2pbw2M8).
Is it really "sharing"?
Presentation of the so-called "Sharing" Economy, for a lecture about service innovation at Linköping University (LiU), during a course in Service Management and Marketing.
I talk about Unicorns; collaborative... consumption-production-finance-learning-governance; “platform cooperativism” and my research focus on shared mobility.
Digital 2022 April Global Statshot Report (Apr 2022) v01DataReportal
This report explores the global "state of digital" in April 2022. It contains all the latest stats, insights, and trends you need to make sense of how the world uses the internet, mobile devices, social media, and ecommerce. Read our complete analysis of these numbers here: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2022-april-global-statshot
For more reports, including the latest global trends and in-depth local data for more than 240 countries and territories around the world, visit https://datareportal.com/
Digital 2022 Singapore (February 2022) v01DataReportal
All the data, statistics, and trends you need to make sense of digital in Singapore in 2022. Includes the latest reported numbers for internet users, social media users, and mobile connections in Singapore, as well as key indicators of ecommerce use. For more reports, including the latest global trends and individual data for more than 230 countries around the world, visit https://datareportal.com/
Restaurants Industry: Social Media Benchmarks & Impact ReportTrackMaven
Who's serving up better social media: fast food or full-service restaurants? And which social strategies set today's leading restaurant brands apart?
We analyzed a year's worth of social media content from leading restaurant brands to find out. Learn which social networks drive the greatest impact for your peers, and see how your brand measures up against industry-specific benchmarks.
Global socio-economic, demographic and technological forces that HP calls Megatrends will have a sustained and transformative impact on businesses, societies, economies, cultures and our personal lives in unimaginable ways in the years to come.
Interested in learning more about Megatrends? Visit hpmegatrends.com.
**Please note this presentation was developed prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, so although we don’t address it directly, we do speak to the innovations and solutions that exist beyond it. We hope this knowledge opens a window of hope and possibility to what awaits us on the road ahead.
This presentation is an updated and diluted version of an earlier slides deck (see http://bit.ly/2pbw2M8).
Is it really "sharing"?
Presentation of the so-called "Sharing" Economy, for a lecture about service innovation at Linköping University (LiU), during a course in Service Management and Marketing.
I talk about Unicorns; collaborative... consumption-production-finance-learning-governance; “platform cooperativism” and my research focus on shared mobility.
Digital 2022 April Global Statshot Report (Apr 2022) v01DataReportal
This report explores the global "state of digital" in April 2022. It contains all the latest stats, insights, and trends you need to make sense of how the world uses the internet, mobile devices, social media, and ecommerce. Read our complete analysis of these numbers here: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2022-april-global-statshot
For more reports, including the latest global trends and in-depth local data for more than 240 countries and territories around the world, visit https://datareportal.com/
Digital 2022 Singapore (February 2022) v01DataReportal
All the data, statistics, and trends you need to make sense of digital in Singapore in 2022. Includes the latest reported numbers for internet users, social media users, and mobile connections in Singapore, as well as key indicators of ecommerce use. For more reports, including the latest global trends and individual data for more than 230 countries around the world, visit https://datareportal.com/
Digital 2022: Essential Facebook Stats for Q1 2022 v01DataReportal
This presentation contains DataReportal’s update on Facebook adoption and use around the world in January 2022, including the number of Facebook users by country, and insights into Facebook’s audience demographics (i.e. Facebook users by age and gender). Find similar reports for other top social platforms – and loads more great insights – at https://datareportal.com/social-media-platforms
Digital 2023 France (February 2023) v01DataReportal
All the data, statistics, and trends you need to make sense of digital in France in 2023. Includes the latest reported numbers for internet users, social media users, and mobile connections in France, as well as key indicators of ecommerce use. For more reports, including the latest global trends and individual data for more than 230 countries around the world, visit https://datareportal.com/
This report dives into the topic of consumer trends emerging under the sudden disruption of nearly all industries in the global marketplace due to COVID-19. Based on a number of studies and market research, how will consumer behaviors and preferences change in a post COVID-19 era?
How COVID-19 is Accelerating Digital Transformation in Health and Social Care?NUS-ISS
Without a doubt, COVID-19 has become the unexpected driver for digital transformation. It is accelerating the transformation, especially in the health and social care space, as we are forced to adapt to the new norm brought about by the crisis. Join us as we discuss the trends and what might be the new health and social care landscape in Singapore after 2020.
Digital 2022 France (February 2022) v02DataReportal
All the data, statistics, and trends you need to make sense of digital in France in 2022. Includes the latest reported numbers for internet users, social media users, and mobile connections in France, as well as key indicators of ecommerce use. For more reports, including the latest global trends and individual data for more than 230 countries around the world, visit https://datareportal.com/
Digital 2022: Essential Instagram Stats for Q2 2022 v01DataReportal
This presentation contains DataReportal’s update on Instagram adoption and use around the world in April 2022, including the number of Instagram users by country, and insights into Instagram’s audience demographics (i.e. Instagram users by age and gender). Find similar reports for other top social platforms – and loads more great insights – at https://datareportal.com/social-media-platforms
Digital 2022 July Global Statshot Report (Jul 2022) v02DataReportal
This report explores the global "state of digital" in July 2022. It contains all the latest stats, insights, and trends you need to make sense of how the world uses the internet, mobile devices, social media, and ecommerce. Read our complete analysis of these numbers here: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2022-july-global-statshot
For more reports, including the latest global trends and in-depth local data for more than 240 countries and territories around the world, visit https://datareportal.com/
Digital 2022: Essential TikTok Stats for Q1 2022 v01DataReportal
This presentation contains DataReportal’s update on TikTok adoption and use around the world in January 2022, including the number of TikTok users by country, and insights into TikTok’s audience demographics (i.e. TikTok users by age and gender). Find similar reports for other top social platforms – and loads more great insights – at https://datareportal.com/social-media-platforms
Shaping the Sustainable Organization | Accentureaccenture
Accenture helps companies unlock the business and environmental value of organizational sustainability by strengthening their sustainability DNA. Read more.
The ultimate challenge for the current generation of interaction designers is to create a cohesive ecosystem of devices, web-connected objects and cloud services. Designing products in isolation is not the right approach. New paradigms are emerging. It is a great time to be a designer. These are the slides I used in my three-hour workshop at UXPA China. Hope you like it!
Design Thinking and Innovation at Apple IncSHREYANSH VATS
The following presentation is based on a case on Apple Inc about how Apple goes about implementing innovation and design thinking at their firm, and how there's a shift with the arrival of Tim Cook. The case was a part of our course called BusinessInnovation in New Environment (BINE)
Digital 2022 Germany (February 2022) v02DataReportal
All the data, statistics, and trends you need to make sense of digital in Germany in 2022. Includes the latest reported numbers for internet users, social media users, and mobile connections in Germany, as well as key indicators of ecommerce use. For more reports, including the latest global trends and individual data for more than 230 countries around the world, visit https://datareportal.com/
Nachhaltige Finanzierung spielt für die EU eine Schlüsselrolle, um das notwendige Kapital zur Umsetzung des Green Deal und der internationalen Klimapolitik zu mobilisieren. Die EU plant, Investitionen in neue, moderne Gaskraftwerke ebenso als nachhaltig einzustufen. Ein guter Schritt: damit die Energieversorgung sicher bleibt, sind wir bis zum Ziel der Klimaneutralität auf Brückentechnologien wie Gas angewiesen.
As companies and governments around the world grapple with accommodating changes in the workplace, the workforce and the nature of work itself, we are pleased to be continuing our Future of Work foresight programme. Building on previous global research undertaken over the past few years, we are now looking in depth at six pivotal issues that have been prioritised as areas of major potential change. These are digital skills, soft skills, reinventing roles, the blurring of work, green jobs and digital productivity. Initially taking a European focus, with the support of Amazon, over the next couple of months a series of expert digital workshops are exploring the core shifts ahead and their implications for organisations and wider policy.
This PDF sets the scene for the dialogue both within the workshops and more widely. If you would like to be involved or have comments on the potential changes ahead, do let us know and we can accommodate. As always all discussions are under the Chatham House Rule and so there is no attribution and, as we progress with each area, we will be sharing a synthesis of all new insights and recommendations over the rest of the year.
EUBrasilCloudFORUM actively participated at Beyon2020 event. Professor Sergio Takeo Kofuji from the University of São Paulo (USP) discussed the importance of Open Data for cities.
The Beyond 2020 event took place at "Centro de Convenções de Pernambuco" from the 27th to the 29th of July, focusing on how urban innovation ecosystems can support citizens and what the future will look like for Cities, Politics, Citizens, Local Development, and Tourism, based on the use of Open data Platforms.
Gender Equality and Big Data. Making Gender Data Visible UN Global Pulse
This report provides background context on how big data can be used to facilitate and assess progress towards the SDGs, and focuses in particular on SDG 5 – “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. It examines successes and challenges in the use of big data to improve the lives of women and girls, and identifies concrete data innovation projects from across the development sector that have considered the gender dimension.
Digital 2022: Essential Facebook Stats for Q1 2022 v01DataReportal
This presentation contains DataReportal’s update on Facebook adoption and use around the world in January 2022, including the number of Facebook users by country, and insights into Facebook’s audience demographics (i.e. Facebook users by age and gender). Find similar reports for other top social platforms – and loads more great insights – at https://datareportal.com/social-media-platforms
Digital 2023 France (February 2023) v01DataReportal
All the data, statistics, and trends you need to make sense of digital in France in 2023. Includes the latest reported numbers for internet users, social media users, and mobile connections in France, as well as key indicators of ecommerce use. For more reports, including the latest global trends and individual data for more than 230 countries around the world, visit https://datareportal.com/
This report dives into the topic of consumer trends emerging under the sudden disruption of nearly all industries in the global marketplace due to COVID-19. Based on a number of studies and market research, how will consumer behaviors and preferences change in a post COVID-19 era?
How COVID-19 is Accelerating Digital Transformation in Health and Social Care?NUS-ISS
Without a doubt, COVID-19 has become the unexpected driver for digital transformation. It is accelerating the transformation, especially in the health and social care space, as we are forced to adapt to the new norm brought about by the crisis. Join us as we discuss the trends and what might be the new health and social care landscape in Singapore after 2020.
Digital 2022 France (February 2022) v02DataReportal
All the data, statistics, and trends you need to make sense of digital in France in 2022. Includes the latest reported numbers for internet users, social media users, and mobile connections in France, as well as key indicators of ecommerce use. For more reports, including the latest global trends and individual data for more than 230 countries around the world, visit https://datareportal.com/
Digital 2022: Essential Instagram Stats for Q2 2022 v01DataReportal
This presentation contains DataReportal’s update on Instagram adoption and use around the world in April 2022, including the number of Instagram users by country, and insights into Instagram’s audience demographics (i.e. Instagram users by age and gender). Find similar reports for other top social platforms – and loads more great insights – at https://datareportal.com/social-media-platforms
Digital 2022 July Global Statshot Report (Jul 2022) v02DataReportal
This report explores the global "state of digital" in July 2022. It contains all the latest stats, insights, and trends you need to make sense of how the world uses the internet, mobile devices, social media, and ecommerce. Read our complete analysis of these numbers here: https://datareportal.com/reports/digital-2022-july-global-statshot
For more reports, including the latest global trends and in-depth local data for more than 240 countries and territories around the world, visit https://datareportal.com/
Digital 2022: Essential TikTok Stats for Q1 2022 v01DataReportal
This presentation contains DataReportal’s update on TikTok adoption and use around the world in January 2022, including the number of TikTok users by country, and insights into TikTok’s audience demographics (i.e. TikTok users by age and gender). Find similar reports for other top social platforms – and loads more great insights – at https://datareportal.com/social-media-platforms
Shaping the Sustainable Organization | Accentureaccenture
Accenture helps companies unlock the business and environmental value of organizational sustainability by strengthening their sustainability DNA. Read more.
The ultimate challenge for the current generation of interaction designers is to create a cohesive ecosystem of devices, web-connected objects and cloud services. Designing products in isolation is not the right approach. New paradigms are emerging. It is a great time to be a designer. These are the slides I used in my three-hour workshop at UXPA China. Hope you like it!
Design Thinking and Innovation at Apple IncSHREYANSH VATS
The following presentation is based on a case on Apple Inc about how Apple goes about implementing innovation and design thinking at their firm, and how there's a shift with the arrival of Tim Cook. The case was a part of our course called BusinessInnovation in New Environment (BINE)
Digital 2022 Germany (February 2022) v02DataReportal
All the data, statistics, and trends you need to make sense of digital in Germany in 2022. Includes the latest reported numbers for internet users, social media users, and mobile connections in Germany, as well as key indicators of ecommerce use. For more reports, including the latest global trends and individual data for more than 230 countries around the world, visit https://datareportal.com/
Nachhaltige Finanzierung spielt für die EU eine Schlüsselrolle, um das notwendige Kapital zur Umsetzung des Green Deal und der internationalen Klimapolitik zu mobilisieren. Die EU plant, Investitionen in neue, moderne Gaskraftwerke ebenso als nachhaltig einzustufen. Ein guter Schritt: damit die Energieversorgung sicher bleibt, sind wir bis zum Ziel der Klimaneutralität auf Brückentechnologien wie Gas angewiesen.
As companies and governments around the world grapple with accommodating changes in the workplace, the workforce and the nature of work itself, we are pleased to be continuing our Future of Work foresight programme. Building on previous global research undertaken over the past few years, we are now looking in depth at six pivotal issues that have been prioritised as areas of major potential change. These are digital skills, soft skills, reinventing roles, the blurring of work, green jobs and digital productivity. Initially taking a European focus, with the support of Amazon, over the next couple of months a series of expert digital workshops are exploring the core shifts ahead and their implications for organisations and wider policy.
This PDF sets the scene for the dialogue both within the workshops and more widely. If you would like to be involved or have comments on the potential changes ahead, do let us know and we can accommodate. As always all discussions are under the Chatham House Rule and so there is no attribution and, as we progress with each area, we will be sharing a synthesis of all new insights and recommendations over the rest of the year.
EUBrasilCloudFORUM actively participated at Beyon2020 event. Professor Sergio Takeo Kofuji from the University of São Paulo (USP) discussed the importance of Open Data for cities.
The Beyond 2020 event took place at "Centro de Convenções de Pernambuco" from the 27th to the 29th of July, focusing on how urban innovation ecosystems can support citizens and what the future will look like for Cities, Politics, Citizens, Local Development, and Tourism, based on the use of Open data Platforms.
Gender Equality and Big Data. Making Gender Data Visible UN Global Pulse
This report provides background context on how big data can be used to facilitate and assess progress towards the SDGs, and focuses in particular on SDG 5 – “Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls”. It examines successes and challenges in the use of big data to improve the lives of women and girls, and identifies concrete data innovation projects from across the development sector that have considered the gender dimension.
The Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center asked digital stakeholders to weigh two scenarios for 2020, select the one most likely to evolve, and elaborate on the choice. One sketched out a relatively positive future where Big Data are drawn together in ways that will improve social, political, and economic intelligence. The other expressed the view that Big Data could cause more problems than it solves between now and 2020
What does “BIG DATA” mean for official statistics?Vincenzo Patruno
In our modern world more and more data are generated on the web and produced by sensors in the ever growing number of electronic devices surrounding us. The amount of data and the frequency at which they are produced have led to the concept of 'Big data'. Big data is characterized as data sets of increasing volume, velocity and variety; the 3 V's. Big data is often largely unstructured, meaning that it has no pre-defined data model and/or does not fit well into conventional relational databases.
Businesses, governments, and the research community can all derive value from the massive amounts of digital data they collect. Analyzing big-data application projects by governments offers guidance for follower countries for their own future big-data initiatives. Decision making in government usually takes much longer and is conducted through consultation and mutual consent of a large number of diverse actors, including officials, interest groups, and ordinary citizens. Governments deal not only with general issues of big-data integration from multiple sources and in different formats and cost but also with some special challenges. The biggest is collecting data, governments have difficulty, as the data not only comes from multiple channels but from different sources. Most governments operating or planning big-data projects need to take a step-by-step approach for setting the right goals and realistic expectations. Success depends on their ability to integrate and analyze information, develop supporting systems, and support decision making through analytics. Pravin Dattu Gangad | Pranay Pravin Gaikwad"Use of Big Data in Government Sector" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-4 , June 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd15676.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/computer-science/database/15676/use-of-big-data-in-government-sector/pravin-dattu-gangad
Los números más importantes del 2015 y las tendencias que hay que monitorear en el 2016
The numbers that mattered in 2015 and the trends to watch in 2016
Source: GlobalWebIndex
Big Data for Development: Opportunities and Challenges, Summary SlidedeckUN Global Pulse
Summary points from UN Global Pulse White Paper "Big Data for Development: Opportunities & Challenges." See: http://www.unglobalpulse.org/BigDataforDevelopment
Data privacy and security in ICT4D - Meeting Report UN Global Pulse
On May 8th, 2015 UN Global Pulse hosted a workshop on data privacy and security in technology-enabled development projects and programmes, as part of a series of events about the Nine Principles for Digital Development. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop. http://unglobalpulse.org/blog/improving-privacy-and-data-security-ict4d-projects
‘The State of Mobile Data for Social Good’ report is a collaboration between UN Global Pulse and the GSMA, the global mobile telecommunications industry association. The report, which identifies over 200 projects or studies leveraging mobile data for social good, aims to survey the landscape today, assess the current barriers to scale, and make recommendations for a way forward. It details some of the main challenges with using mobile data for social good and provides a set of actions that (i) can spur investment and use, (ii) ensure cohesion of efforts and of customer privacy and data protection frameworks and (iii) build technical capacity.
Intuit 2020 Report: The New Data DemocracyIntuit Inc.
Authored by Emergent Research. Explores emerging trends that are driving a data revolution. More information at: http://network.intuit.com/2012/12/13/the-coming-era-of-big-data-for-the-little-guy/
Step 2: Due Diligence Questionnaire for Prospective PartnersUN Global Pulse
UN Global Pulse has developed a two-part Due Diligence Tool for Working with Prospective Technology Partners. The questionnaire should be filled out by the prospective partner prior to any commitment to collaborate.
Step 1: Due Diligence Checklist for Prospective Partners UN Global Pulse
UN Global Pulse has developed a two-part Due Diligence Tool for Working with Prospective Technology Partners. The checklist should be completed by the UN organization and encourages research about the corporate and social nature of the prospective partner, including their data related practices, prior to any commitment to collaborate.
Using Data and New Technology for Peacemaking, Preventive Diplomacy, and Peac...UN Global Pulse
This guide offers an overview of e-analytics in the context of peacemaking and preventive diplomacy. It presents a summary of e-analytics tools as well as examples from the peace and security field. It includes a data project planning matrix that aims to help facilitate and motivate data-driven analysis. Part of the guide is a glossary on basic terminology related to new technologies.
In 2016-2017, Pulse Lab Kampala worked with various UN agencies and development partners in Uganda and the region to test, explore and develop 17 innovation projects. The Lab also furthered the development of tools and technologies that leverage data sources from radio content, social media, mobile phones and satellite imagery, and created technology toolkits. These toolkits can enhance decision-making by providing real-time situational awareness for project and policy implementation.
The 2018 Annual Report details exploratory research conducted by the Pulse Labs and presents solutions that were mainstreamed with partners.
It summarized the adoption of the first UN Principles for Personal Data Protection and Privacy, and showcases Global Pulse's contributions to develop standards and national strategies for the ethical and privacy protective use of big data and artificial intelligence.
Finally, the report highlights Global Pulse's engagement with the data innovation ecosystem through capacity building, collaborative research, and responsible data partnerships.
Risks, Harms and Benefits Assessment Tool (Updated as of Jan 2019)UN Global Pulse
The Data Innovation Risk Assessment Tool is an initial assessment of potential risks for data use that includes seven guiding checkpoints to understand: the "Data Type" involved in the data analytics process, the "Risks and Harms" of data use, the mode and legitimacy of "Data Access", the "Data Use", the adequacy of "Data Security", the adequate level of "Communication and Transparency" and the due diligence on engagement of "Third Parties". The Assessment contains guiding comments for each checkpoint and its questions are grounded in the key international data privacy and data protection principles and concepts such as Purpose Specification, Purpose Compatibility, Data Minimization, Consent Legitimacy, Lawfulness and Fairness of data access and use.
2015 was an eventful year for Pulse Lab Jakarta. The broader data innovation ecosystem within which the Lab operates has grown from a specialist network to include a broader range of public, social, and private sector actors who are interested in exploring insights from new data sources as well as learning how data innovation can complement existing datasets and operations. This report provides an overview of the work of Pulse Lab Jakarta in 2015, including the foundation blocks that will lead to an impactful 2016.
Embracing Innovation: How a Social Lab can Support the Innovation Agenda in S...UN Global Pulse
Pulse Lab Jakarta extended their support to UNDP Sri Lanka through a scoping mission to assess Sri Lanka's readiness to establish an Innovation Lab. This report presents the findings and outlines the suggested approaches for creating an innovation lab, and how to expand it in the years following its inception.
This toolkit provides the methodology for focusing the data-gathering power of existing communities, increasing their capacity to work together and building awareness of the potential of the data created by this work. It aims to help citizens identify and articulate their own problems using the supplementing data in their communities.
Navigating the Terrain: A Toolkit for Conceptualising Service Design ProjectsUN Global Pulse
Pulse Lab Jakarta participated in a service design initiative to develop a citizen-centric public transportation service in Makassar, Indonesia. Following the initiative, which was undertaken along with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Bursa Pengetahuan Kawasan Timur Indonesia (BaKTI), we chronicled our learnings on taking an idea from a design sprint to a ready-to-test prototype. Contextualised to help inform stakeholders working with or within the public sector, this resulting toolkit is useful for developing and delivering similar services.
Experimenting with Big Data and AI to Support Peace and SecurityUN Global Pulse
UN Global Pulse is working with partners to explore how data from social media and radio shows can inform peace and security efforts in Africa. The methodology, case studies, and tools developed as part of these efforts are detailed in this report.
Banking on Fintech: Financial inclusion for micro enterprises in IndonesiaUN Global Pulse
The Banking on Fintech: Financial Inclusion for Micro Enterprises
in Indonesia research was conducted by Pulse Lab Jakarta,
with the support of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
(DFAT) Australia and the Indonesia Fintech Association (AFTECH). It presents successful practices from early adopters and attempts to translate them into opportunities for other unbanked populations.
Pulse Lab Jakarta, in collaboration with the Government of Indonesia, developed ‘Haze Gazer,’ a crisis analysis tool that provides real-time situational information from various data sources to enhance disaster management efforts. The prototype uses advanced data analysis of sources including: satellite imagery, information on population density and distribution from government databases, citizen-generated data and real-time data from social media. The capability afforded by the tool can
enhance disaster risk management efforts to protect vulnerable populations as well as the environment.
Cite as: UN Global Pulse, “Haze Gazer: A crisis analysis tool,” Tool Series, no. 2, 2016.
Building Proxy Indicators of National Wellbeing with Postal Data - Project Ov...UN Global Pulse
This study investigated for the first time the potential of using the network of international postal flows to approximate socioeconomic indicators typically used to benchmark national wellbeing. The research used aggregated electronic postal records from 187 countries collected by the Universal Postal Union from 2010 to 2014 as a proxy indicator for real-world conditions.
Cite as: “Building Proxy Indicators of National Wellbeing with Postal Data”, Global Pulse Project Series, no. 22, 2016
Sex Disaggregation of Social Media Posts - Tool OverviewUN Global Pulse
Global Pulse collaborated with Data2X and the University of Leiden to develop and prototype a tool to infer the sex of users. The tool automates the process of looking up public information from Twitter profiles, in particular the user name and profile picture. Using open source software, the tool analyses user names from a built-in database of predefined names (from sources such as official statistics) that contain gender information.
Cite as: UN Global Pulse, 'Sex-Disaggregation of Social Media Posts,' Big Data Tools Series, no. 3, 2016
Using Big data Analytics for Improved Public Transport UN Global Pulse
Pulse Lab Jakarta collaborated with Jakarta Smart City on a project to enhance transport planning and operational decision-making through real-time data analytics. Using data from TransJakarta – the city’s rapid bus transit system – buses and passenger stations, the project mapped origin-destination trends and identified bottleneck locations, information which can be used to identify whether new routes are needed. The project also explored the possibility of using real-time data to determine passenger-waiting times in order to enhance the efficiency of the bus dispatching system.
Cite as: UN Global Pulse, ‘Using Big Data Analytics for Improved
Public Transport,’ Project Series, no. 25, 2017.
Pulse Lab Jakarta developed Translator Gator, a people-powered language game that creates dictionaries for recognising sustainable development-related conversations in Indonesia. The game builds taxonomies, i.e. sets of relevant keywords, by incentivising players to translate words from English into different Indonesian languages, including Bahasa Indonesia, Jawa, Sunda, Minang, Bugis and Melayu.
Cite as: UN Global Pulse, 'Translator Gator: Crowdsourcing
Translation of Development Keywords in Indonesia’, Tool
Series no. 4, 2017.
Big Data for Financial Inclusion, Examining the Customer Journey - Project Ov...UN Global Pulse
Pulse Lab Jakarta collaborated with the UNCDF Shaping Inclusive Finance Transformations (SHIFT) programme to undertake an
analysis of financial services usage, particularly among women in the ASEAN region. The project analysed customer savings and loan data from four Financial Service Providers (FSPs) in Cambodia to understand the factors that affect savings and loans mobilisation, as well as how usage of these products explains economic issues in Cambodia.
Cite as: UN Global Pulse, 'Big Data for Financial Inclusion, Examining The Customer Journey', Project Series, no. 27, 2017.
Understanding Perceptions of Migrants and Refugees with Social Media - Projec...UN Global Pulse
This project used data from Twitter to monitor protection issues and the safe access to asylum of migrants and refugees in Europe. In collaboration with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), Global Pulse created taxonomies that were used to explore interactions among refugees and between them and service providers, as well as xenophobic sentiment of host communities towards the displaced populations. Specifically, the study focused on how refugees and migrants were perceived in reaction to a series of terrorist attacks that took place in Europe in 2016. The results were used to develop a standardized information product to improve UNHCR’s ability to monitor and analyse relevant social media feeds in near real-time.
Cite as: UN Global Pulse, “Understanding Movement and Perceptions of Migrants and Refugees with Social Media,” Project Series, no. 28, 2017.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
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1. June 2013
BIG DATA
FOR DEVELOPMENT:
A PRIMER
Harnessing Big Data For Real-Time Awareness
WHAT IS BIG DATA?
Big Data is an umbrella term referring to the large
amounts of digital data continually generated by the
global population. The speed and frequency by which
data is produced and collected—by an increasing
number of sources
—is responsible for today’s data
deluge: the amount of available digital data is projected
to increase by an annual 40%.
A large share of this output is “data exhaust,” or records
generated as a by-product of everyday interactions with
digital products or services.
The private sector—including mobile phone carriers,
credit card companies and social media networking
sites—manages enormous data sets that hold rich
insights. Companies analyze this data to support
decision-making or provide market intelligence. More
recently, public sector institutions have begun leveraging
similar techniques to generate actionable insights for
policymakers.
DATA EXHAUST
Passively collected data deriving from daily
usage of digital devices.
HOW TO CITE THIS DOCUMENT: United Nations Global Pulse (2013) Big Data for Development: A primer.
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2. BIG DATA IN THE
DEVELOPING WORLD
VARIETY
VALUE
VOLUME
VELOCITY
Big Data is characterized by the “3 Vs:” greater volume, more variety,
and a higher rate of velocity. A fourth V, for value, can account for the
potential of Big Data to be utilized for development.
Advances in computing and data science now make
it possible to process and analyze Big Data in real
time. However, due to its size and often complex and
unstructured nature, Big Data presents several analytical
challenges that demand continually updated tools and
expertise. Legitimate concerns about privacy and the
digital divide also present new obstacles to harnessing
Big Data sets for public benefit.
The data revolution is not restricted to the industrialized
world. The spread of mobile phone technology to
the hands of billions of individuals may be the
single most significant innovation that has affected
developing countries in the past decade. Across the
developing world, mobile phones are used daily to
transfer money, buy and sell goods, and communicate
information including test results, stock levels and
prices of commodities. Mobile technology is used as a
substitute for weak telecommunications and transport
infrastructures as well as underdeveloped financial and
banking systems.
The numbers of real-time information streams and people
using social media are growing rapidly in developing
countries as well. Tracking trends in online news or social
media can provide insights on emerging concerns that
can be highly relevant to global development.
The Information Gap
This increasing volume of real-time data is driving a
global data revolution a phenomenon that is recent
—
(less than a decade old), extremely rapid (growth is
exponential) and immensely consequential for society.
Big Data is different from Open Data. Open Data
refers to data that is free from copyright and can be
shared in the public domain. That is not a defining
characteristic of Big Data, which can be privately
owned or have varying levels of access control.
Household-level data is challenging to collect on a real-time basis,
making development progress difficult to track. (Source: Millennium
Development Goals Report, 2011)
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3. The recent waves of global shocks food, fuel and
—
financial—have led to greater volatility, and policymakers
are increasingly aware of the costs. Despite greater
interconnectivity, local impacts of shocks like food crises
or natural disasters may not be immediately visible and
trackable.
In general, sources of Big Data for Development are those
which can be analyzed to gain insight into to human
well-being and development, and generally share some
or all of the following features:
These are important issues that often unfold beneath
the radar of traditional monitoring systems, and by the
time hard evidence finds its way to the front pages of
newspapers and desks of decision makers, it’s often too
late and more expensive to respond.
While Early Warning Systems and data collected through
“traditional” methods (surveys and statistics) continue
to generate relevant information, the Digital Revolution
presents a tremendous opportunity to gain richer
insight into the human experience, and Big Data can
complement the existing indicators.
WHAT IS “BIG DATA
FOR DEVELOPMENT”?
“Big Data for Development” is a concept that refers to
the identification of sources of Big Data relevant to policy
and planning of development programmes. It differs from
both “traditional” development data and what the private
sector and mainstream media call Big Data.
Big Data for Development is constantly evolving.
However, a preliminary categorization of sources may
reflect:
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
Online Content: International and local online news
sources, publicly accessible blogs, forum posts, comments
and public social media content, online advertising,
e-commerce sites and websites created by local retailers
that list prices and inventory.
WHAT PEOPLE DO
Data Exhaust: Passively collected transactional data from
the use of digital services such as financial services
(including purchases, money transfers, savings and loan
repayments), communications services (such as anonymized
records of mobile phone usage patterns) or information
services (such as anonymized records of search queries).
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4. Before it can be used effectively, Big Data needs to be
managed and filtered through data analytics—tools and
methodologies that can transform massive quantities
of raw data into “data about the data” for analytical
purposes. Only then it is possible to detect changes in
how communities access services that may be useful
proxy indicators of human well-being.
It is important to note that, for the purpose of global
development, “real time” does not always mean
occurring immediately, but rather refers to information
that is produced and made available in a relatively
short and relevant period of time and within a timeframe
that allows action to be taken in response, creating a
feedback loop.
If properly mined and analyzed, Big Data can improve the
understanding of human behavior and offer policymaking
support for global development in three main ways:
In general, the utility of Big Data for Development is
maximized when traditional data sets and statistics are
compared or correlated for context.
BIG DATA ANALYTICS
A type of quantitative research that examines
large amounts of data to uncover hidden
patterns, unknown correlations and other useful
information.
Big Data analytics is not a panacea for age-old
development challenges, and real-time information
does not replace the quantitative statistical evidence
governments traditionally use for decision-making.
However, it does have the potential to inform whether
further targeted investigation is necessary, or prompt
immediate response.
FURTHER READING
Big Data for Development: Challenges and Opportunities
(UN Global Pulse, 2012)
http://www.unglobalpulse.org/projects/
BigDataforDevelopment
Big Data: The Next Frontier for Innovation, Competition, and
Productivity (McKinsey Global Institute)
http://www.mckinsey.com/insights/business_technology/
big_data_the_next_frontier_for_innovation
Big Data, Big Impact: New Possibilities for International
Development (World Economic Forum)
http://www.weforum.org/reports/big-data-big-impact-newpossibilities-international-development
Data for the Public Good (O’Reilly Media)
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920025580.do
New Data for Understanding the Human Condition:
International Perspectives (OECD)
http://www.oecd.org/sti/sci-tech/new-data-for-understandingthe-human-condition.htm
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5. RESEARCH EXAMPLES
To evaluate the effectiveness of harnessing Big Data for Development, UN Global Pulse has worked on several research
projects in collaboration with public and private partners. Such proof-of-concept projects and prototypes
demonstrate how Big Data analysis can be beneficial to the work of policymakers in different contexts—from
monitoring early indicators of unemployment hikes to tracking fluctuations of commodity prices before they are
recorded in official statistics.
Social media as early indicator of an
unemployment hike
Monitoring the evolution of food
security issues through news media
PARTNER: SAS
PARTNER: COMPLEX SYSTEMS INSITUTE OF PARIS (ISC-PIF)
Can social media add depth to unemployment statistics?
Is it possible to track thematic shifts in media attention
through the automatic analysis of news articles?
Method:
1. Collect digital data (social media, blogs, forums and
news articles) related to unemployment.
2. Perform sentiment analysis to categorize the mood
of these online conversations.
3. Correlate volume of mood-related conversation to
official unemployment statistics.
Findings: Global Pulse and SAS International found that
increased social media conversations about work-related
anxiety and confusion provided a three-month early
warning indicator of an unemployment spike in Ireland.
Real-time tracking of commodity prices:
the e-bread index
Method:
1. Collect a corpus of news media on topics of interest
based on keywords (i.e. food security).
2. Cluster articles in theme-based categories through
semantic analysis.
3. Visualize the information both geographically
and over time.
Findings: Thanks to the machine classification of millions
of documents without human intervention, it’s possible
to visualize the shift in media attention related to a
specific topic (in this case, food security) over time and
thematically.
Twitter and perceptions of
crisis-related stress
PARTNER: PRICESTATS
PARTNER: CRIMSON HEXAGON
Can mining online food prices provide real-time information
on commodity price dynamics?
Can Twitter data be used to provide insight about how
people perceive issues related to food, fuel, housing and
the economy in Indonesia?
Method:
1. Use web scraping technologies to create a real-time
price index (“e-bread index”) by extracting bread
prices from online supermarkets and retail websites.
2. Compare this e-bread index with the official food price
index (CPI).
Findings: The relationship between web-extracted prices
and official statistics on food prices (i.e. bread) proved to
be closely correlated, allowing for price forecasting and
additional real-time indicators of inflation activity.
Method:
1. Develop a taxonomy of keywords related to food,
fuel, housing and the economy, as well as keywords
reflective of concern (i.e. “afford”).
2. Classify Twitter messages into categories and quantify
sentiment of relevant messages.
3. Correlate or compare the volume of keywords from
Twitter against official statistics (e.g. unemployment
or inflation statistics), and significant events.
Findings: The number of tweets discussing the price of rice
in Indonesia closely matched the official inflation statistics,
showing how the volume and topics of Twitter conversations
can reflect a population’s concerns in close to real time.
Detailed reports for these projects are available at www.unglobalpulse.org/research/projects.
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6. CHALLENGES
There are important issues specifically relevant to Big
Data for Development that must be acknowledged.
PRIVACY
Privacy, defined as the right of individuals to control
what information related to them may be disclosed, is a
pillar of democracy, and protections must be put in place
to avoid compromising this basic human right in the
digital age. Privacy is an overarching concern for anyone
wishing to explore Big Data for development, since it has
implications for all areas of work, from data acquisition
and storage to retention, use and presentation.
In many cases, the production of data itself raises
concerns, as people may be unaware of the sheer
quantity or types of data they are generating on a daily
basis, as well as that data they unknowingly consent to
the collection and usage of without understanding how it
may be used.
In this context, it is important to note that suitable
legal frameworks, ethical guidelines and technological
solutions for protected data sharing are at the center of
efforts to leverage Big Data for development.
The Big Data analyzed for development purposes
does not include personal or personally identifiable
information. Instead, data sets are anonymized and
aggregated to ensure full protection of individual privacy.
And, after all, policy decisions by definition must be
made to address issues at the community level.
DIGITAL DIVIDE
Although the data revolution is unfolding around the
world in different ways and at different speeds, the
digital divide is closing faster than many had anticipated.
The availability and types of digital data, however,
differ from country to country. For instance, countries
with high mobile phone and Internet penetration rates
will produce more data directly generated by citizens,
while nations with large aid communities will produce
more programme-related data. Data also varies between
age groups, economic income brackets, gender and
geographic location.
These types of biases must be addressed in the way
Big Data for Development research projects are designed
and conducted, and particular attention must be given
to the countries that are producing less data and/or have
less capacity in data analytics to avoid adding new facets
to digital divide.
ACCESS
Although much of the publicly available online data has
potential utility for development purposes, private sector
corporations hold a great deal more data that is valuable
for development. Companies may be reluctant to share
data due to concerns about competitiveness and their
customers’ privacy. It is therefore critical to ensure a
legal framework that defines rules for privacy-preserving
analysis and protect the competitiveness of the private
sector companies willing to share data. For example,
aggregating data belonging to companies operating in
a similar sector in a data commons may prevent the
attribution of a certain data set to a specific company.
ANALYTICAL CHALLENGES
The public sector cannot fully exploit Big Data without
leadership from the private sector. With this in mind,
the concept of “Data Philanthropy” has emerged as a
partnership by which private sector companies share
data for public benefit, taking the initiative to anonymize
their data sets and provide them to social innovators to
mine for real-time insights, patterns and trends.
The process of mining Big Data for Development
(using Big Data analytics techniques to extract relevant
information) contains certain analytical risks that may
reduce the accuracy of the results. Analyzing Big Data
for development poses different challenges that are in
part methodological, or related to interpretation accuracy,
methods of analysis, and detection of anomalies.
For more information on Data Philanthropy, visit
http://bit.ly/dataphil2013.
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7. DATA SCIENTISTS VS DATA ENGINEERS
Data scientists clean, organize and analyse data
through different techniques looking for patterns
that can generate actionable information.
Data engineers design and develop information
systems to scrap, collect, transfer and sort data.
Some methodological challenges may include:
•
Sentiment analysis (or opinion mining): Refers to the
study of emotions and opinions expressed in digital
messages and translating those sentiments to hard
data. Quantifying moods and intents is difficult, and
obstacles such as slang, sarcasm, hyperbole, and
irony may impede data analysis.
•
Text mining: Such as going beyond sentiment analysis
to extract keyword and events, text mining faces
difficulties the true significance of the statements
in which the facts are reported.
•
Falsification: Data can be false, fabricated with
the intention of providing misleading information.
•
Perceptions versus facts: Perceptions aren’t
necessarily accurate and may differ even
significantly from actual facts. For instance, this
happened with Google Flu Trends, an analytics
platform that was meant to predict actual flu, but
instead proved useful only for general public health
surveillance. Without recognizing this key insight,
doctors using Google Flu Trends may be inclined to
overstock vaccines or misdiagnose their patients.
•
Sampling selection bias: The people who use mobile
or digital services may not be a representative
sample of the larger population considered.
•
Beyond the availability of raw data alone, and beyond
the intention to utilize it, there needs to be capacity
to understand and use data effectively. Big Data for
Development is about turning imperfect, complex and
often unstructured data into actionable information. In
order to do so, there are specific requirements in terms
of skill sets and technologies, aside from getting access
to the right data sets.
Despite the many challenges that Big Data for
Development presents, understanding the growing
amount of digital information human communities
produce can be invaluable in providing them with
support and protection.
The technologies for data analysis are constantly
improving and developing, and it is difficult to share
a comprehensive taxonomy of tools with related costs
and benefits. Global Pulse is, however, available to
provide support and direction to UN offices willing to
embark in Big Data analysis and to advise them on the
most effective technologies and skills they should seek
according to their specific analytical needs.
The question is no longer if Big Data can provide insights
useful to global development and resilience, but how.
At this stage, it’s fundamental to focus on implementing
new norms and ontologies for the use and sharing of
data as well as forming innovative public-private sector
partnerships to facilitate analysis and research. This
will determine whether development organizations and
policymakers will be able to use Big Data to its full
potential to enhance the public good.
Apophenia: Seeing patterns and correlations where
none actually exists is a risk, and the massive
amount of data available for analysis intensifies
the search for interesting correlations that may not
actually exist.
•
CONCLUSIONS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Correlation does not mean causation: Even where
an actual correlation is found, it doesn’t necessarily
signify that there is a causation link between the
data and theory and context are relevant to reduce
the risk of self-fulfilling prophecies.
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8. ABOUT GLOBAL PULSE
Global Pulse is a United Nations innovation initiative of the Secretary-General exploring how new, digital data
sources and real-time analytics technologies can help policymakers gain a better understanding of changes in
human well-being and emerging vulnerabilities. Through strategic public-private partnerships, innovative analysis
and open source technology development across its network of Pulse Labs, Global Pulse is developing approaches
for applying Big Data to 21st century humanitarian and development challenges.
The three-fold project strategy includes:
1. Research & Development: Conducting research to discover new proxy indicators for tracking development
progress and emerging vulnerabilities in real time, and assembling a toolkit of technologies for analyzing
real-time data.
2. Big Data partnerships: Forging partnerships with companies, organizations, researchers and academic
institutions that have the data, technology and analytical expertise needed for Big Data for Development
projects and advocacy.
3. Pulse Lab network: Establishing an integrated network of country-level innovation centers that bring together
government experts, UN agencies, academia and the private sector to prototype and pilot approaches
at country level and support successful adoption.
For more information please visit www.unglobalpulse.org.
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