Big Data has quickly become an industry buzz term and with it promises of exciting opportunities for consumer intelligence. However, increasing privacy concerns and the logistics associated with data refinement bring their own unique set of challenges for marketers. In his session, Cam will outline some emerging solutions to address these concerns as well as innovative opportunities for social good through real-time data analysis.
Which megatrends are important to understand when digitizing the public sector? Here are 3 trends as presented on the Digitize Denmark conference on April 7th. 2011.
Get the latest announcements on Microsoft and NVIDIA's HGX-1 platform for artificial intelligence cloud computing, Facebook's new AI server, and the launch of Jetson TX2 for AI computing in cameras, sensors, and more.
Big Data make us with superpowers: keep it in mind when thinking how to use itSkender Kollcaku
We will be producing more data every year than in the previous 100,000 years (faster and faster). Data will be mostly processed by machines, a lot of machines.
Data will generate more data (think about engines, self-driving cars, sensors, wearables, unstructured data). New types of data require new interdisciplinary approach (how do you index
a personal mood or humor?)
Use Data to Deliver Better Results and Drive Revenue in B2B PublishingHubSpot
Originally presented at HubSpot's 2015 Inbound Publishers Summit by John Yedinak
What if you could aggregate your audience data into a unified database? John examines how you can make the most of your audience data through segmentation and personalization to drive engagement and revenue.
Put yourself in your consumers' shoes. Building personas allow us to empathize and build an understanding. As you begin defining consumer personas, capture and analyze data in these two ways.
Which megatrends are important to understand when digitizing the public sector? Here are 3 trends as presented on the Digitize Denmark conference on April 7th. 2011.
Get the latest announcements on Microsoft and NVIDIA's HGX-1 platform for artificial intelligence cloud computing, Facebook's new AI server, and the launch of Jetson TX2 for AI computing in cameras, sensors, and more.
Big Data make us with superpowers: keep it in mind when thinking how to use itSkender Kollcaku
We will be producing more data every year than in the previous 100,000 years (faster and faster). Data will be mostly processed by machines, a lot of machines.
Data will generate more data (think about engines, self-driving cars, sensors, wearables, unstructured data). New types of data require new interdisciplinary approach (how do you index
a personal mood or humor?)
Use Data to Deliver Better Results and Drive Revenue in B2B PublishingHubSpot
Originally presented at HubSpot's 2015 Inbound Publishers Summit by John Yedinak
What if you could aggregate your audience data into a unified database? John examines how you can make the most of your audience data through segmentation and personalization to drive engagement and revenue.
Put yourself in your consumers' shoes. Building personas allow us to empathize and build an understanding. As you begin defining consumer personas, capture and analyze data in these two ways.
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Social Media Group SMWTO: The New Wave of Visual Content CurationSocial Media Group
With less time and more content to sift through, new emerging visual curation platforms have taken off in a big way. Tapping into our desire for authentic and personal inspiration, Instagram, Tumblr and Pinterest have changed the way we explore and share content. Find out how brands get on board and ride the wave.
An introductory presentation about possibilities that Big Data opens to public safety company like e.g. taking advantage of smart city grids, crime and accident databases
This presentation will discuss the ways in which barriers to entry for anyone to create content have dissolved in the age of affordable technology. How can your content make an impact when it’s competing with nearly everyone on the planet? Brandon talks about Pop Culture and the importance of taking the road less traveled to make an impact in the digital age.
The amount of data in our world today is substantially outsized. Many of the personal and non-personal aspects of our day-to-day activities are aggregated and stored as data by both businesses and governments. The increasing data captured through multimedia, social media, and the Internet are a phenomenon that needs to be properly examined. In this article, we explore this topic and analyse the term data ownership. We aim to raise awareness and trigger a debate for policy makers with regard to data ownership and the need to improve existing data protection, privacy laws, and legislation at both national and international levels.
Data Alchemy, Mythology and the Quest for the Perpetual Data Machine. Gam Dias
Like ocean currents and trade winds, data, big and small is continuously circulating. It is being created, harvested and processed by Data Refineries that add value and provision it.
EDF2013: Invited Talk Daragh O'Brien: The Story of Maturity – How data in Bus...European Data Forum
Invited talk of Daragh O'Brien, Managing Director of Castlebridge Associates, at the European Data Forum 2013, 9 April 2013 in Dublin, Ireland: The Story of Maturity – How data in Business needs to pass the ‘So What’ tests
Business considerations for privacy and open data: how not to get caught outtheODI
When all around you seems to be going "open", what should you know and bear in mind to avoid a privacy debacle. Unless your data is solely about inanimate objects, there will be privacy considerations for your business or organisation. Done properly, suitable consideration may be trivial; done badly, it can be catastrophic, and hindsight is always better when the stories are about a different organisation.With kittens and hopefully some humour, Sam Smith of Privacy International covers how your organisation can avoid a future audience laughing (uncomfortably) at the privacy choices you should have made for your users, your customers and citizens.
Presentation: Big Data 101, What It Means for Business
Presented by: David Ray, Corporate Vice President, Corporate Internet, New York Life Insurance Company
Big Data is the latest buzzword inside the C-suite, but what does it mean, how are other industries using it to competitive advantage, and what are the real opportunities for business? Does big data require massive amounts of data to be considered or is there success to be found in unifying myriad data sources? Join us for an interesting peek.
www.bdionline.com
The enterprise software stack is undergoing once in a generation refresh largely driven by virtualization, data explosion, infrastructure commoditization, socialization, unlimited connectivity, and online services. With ever growing security parameter and attack vectors, enterprises are looking for ways to secure information access without compromising the business agility unleashed by the abovementioned forces. This presentation focuses on the emerging opportunities in the enterprise space that entrepreneurs can leverage to build the technology giants of tomorrow.
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Social Media Group SMWTO: The New Wave of Visual Content CurationSocial Media Group
With less time and more content to sift through, new emerging visual curation platforms have taken off in a big way. Tapping into our desire for authentic and personal inspiration, Instagram, Tumblr and Pinterest have changed the way we explore and share content. Find out how brands get on board and ride the wave.
An introductory presentation about possibilities that Big Data opens to public safety company like e.g. taking advantage of smart city grids, crime and accident databases
This presentation will discuss the ways in which barriers to entry for anyone to create content have dissolved in the age of affordable technology. How can your content make an impact when it’s competing with nearly everyone on the planet? Brandon talks about Pop Culture and the importance of taking the road less traveled to make an impact in the digital age.
The amount of data in our world today is substantially outsized. Many of the personal and non-personal aspects of our day-to-day activities are aggregated and stored as data by both businesses and governments. The increasing data captured through multimedia, social media, and the Internet are a phenomenon that needs to be properly examined. In this article, we explore this topic and analyse the term data ownership. We aim to raise awareness and trigger a debate for policy makers with regard to data ownership and the need to improve existing data protection, privacy laws, and legislation at both national and international levels.
Data Alchemy, Mythology and the Quest for the Perpetual Data Machine. Gam Dias
Like ocean currents and trade winds, data, big and small is continuously circulating. It is being created, harvested and processed by Data Refineries that add value and provision it.
EDF2013: Invited Talk Daragh O'Brien: The Story of Maturity – How data in Bus...European Data Forum
Invited talk of Daragh O'Brien, Managing Director of Castlebridge Associates, at the European Data Forum 2013, 9 April 2013 in Dublin, Ireland: The Story of Maturity – How data in Business needs to pass the ‘So What’ tests
Business considerations for privacy and open data: how not to get caught outtheODI
When all around you seems to be going "open", what should you know and bear in mind to avoid a privacy debacle. Unless your data is solely about inanimate objects, there will be privacy considerations for your business or organisation. Done properly, suitable consideration may be trivial; done badly, it can be catastrophic, and hindsight is always better when the stories are about a different organisation.With kittens and hopefully some humour, Sam Smith of Privacy International covers how your organisation can avoid a future audience laughing (uncomfortably) at the privacy choices you should have made for your users, your customers and citizens.
Presentation: Big Data 101, What It Means for Business
Presented by: David Ray, Corporate Vice President, Corporate Internet, New York Life Insurance Company
Big Data is the latest buzzword inside the C-suite, but what does it mean, how are other industries using it to competitive advantage, and what are the real opportunities for business? Does big data require massive amounts of data to be considered or is there success to be found in unifying myriad data sources? Join us for an interesting peek.
www.bdionline.com
The enterprise software stack is undergoing once in a generation refresh largely driven by virtualization, data explosion, infrastructure commoditization, socialization, unlimited connectivity, and online services. With ever growing security parameter and attack vectors, enterprises are looking for ways to secure information access without compromising the business agility unleashed by the abovementioned forces. This presentation focuses on the emerging opportunities in the enterprise space that entrepreneurs can leverage to build the technology giants of tomorrow.
Tech For Good Meetup 10.11.14 The Good DataTech For Good
At the Tech For Good Meetup in London Marcos Mendendez introduced us to The Good Data, which is a service that helps you to take ownership of your personal data online by blocking browsing data that would otherwise be used by third party trackers. Then, with your consent, it puts some of your data to use for organisations that are working towards a good cause. What’s really cool, is that you can also choose to become an owner of The Good Data - so it’s possibly the first data coop in the world.
The REAL Impact of Big Data on PrivacyClaudiu Popa
The awesome promise of Big Data is tempered by the need to protect personal information. Data scientists must expertly navigate the legislative waters and acquire the skills to protect privacy and security. This talk provides enterprise leaders with answers and suggests questions to ask when the time comes to consider the vast opportunities offered by big data.
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Over the last few months, I've been asked to speak more and more about the emerging strategic role of marketing, particularly as it relates to technology, something I first started to explore in 2012. The explosion of customer data provided by social and digital have put extreme power in the hands of marketers, if only we'll learn how to wield it (this recent article in Harvard Business Review outlines the enormous opportunity for marketers as other parts of the business start to slow in their ability to deliver value). We're entering a new era of big data, automation and the ability to drive business strategy by delivering real-time access to the voice of the customer. Is your team is ready to let go of decisions made based solely on "gut feel" (though you shouldn't entirely, for our brains are the most advanced supercomputers on the planet) and get ready for the Chief Marketing Technologist, who's much more of a "quant" than a "qual"? Savvy, forward-thinking marketing leaders who "get it" can position themselves to deliver enormous business value and take a seat at the big table if they can figure this stuff out - fast.
Why Marketers Will Rule The World: Rise of the Marketing TechnologistSocial Media Group
Social and digital have put extreme power in the hands of marketers, if only they'll learn how to wield it. With Gartner research predicting that by 2017 the CMO will spend more on technology that the CIO, marketers are entering a new era of big data, automation and the ability to drive business strategy by delivering real-time access to the voice of the customer, all thanks to the Internet. Is your team ready for the era of the Chief Marketing Technologist? In this session we'll talk about emerging tech trends in marketing and how savvy, forward-thinking leaders can serve up enormous business value and position themselves to take a seat at the big table.
Social Marketing to B2B vs B2C: What's the Difference?Social Media Group
A quirky look at some differences between B2B and B2C Social Marketing, and opportunities to enhance touch-points along the Customer Decision Journey. Presented at Social Media Marketing in Feb/2012.
This presentation addresses a popular, but misguided request in social media marketing: making a piece of content “go viral.” This session will cover why “viral” isn’t a useful term, what executives really mean when they ask for content to go viral, and how we can design content so that users are likely to spread it throughout their networks.
The new online world and communication landscape has made consumer and market data ubiquitous. Marketers of all stripes have unprecedented access to consumer information and are looking to action that data in almost real time. The reality is that clients and agencies have always had access to data, but the real target is insights, not anecdotes.
This presentation explores the emerging trend of transmedia storytelling, which is storytelling across multiple platforms and formats using digital technologies. This talk will illustrate how, more than ever, brands have an opportunity to create a continuous content narrative that engages an audience through multiple media formats.
Disrupting Traditional Leadership: Flock Behavior in CommunitiesSocial Media Group
Leaders lead and followers follow, right? Not always. Researchers into bird behavior have identified that a few well-placed, co-ordinated "followers" can shift the direction of a flock of hundreds. What are the implications of that for businesses and online communities undergoing change. Can the followers lead?
Case Study: Yamaha's Conversation with Their CustomersSocial Media Group
It’s been two years since Yamaha Motor launched its corporate blog (www.snowmobiles.yamahablogs.ca) Sled Talk debuted in March 2007, but what has happened since? In this engaging case study, Chris Reid, National Manager, Product Planning and Research, Yamaha Motor Canada and Maggie Fox, CEO of Social Media Group, one of the world’s largest independent social media agencies, will walk you through the process of doing it right: getting executive buy in, proper planning and pitfalls to avoid. They’ll also share some of the many benefits Yamaha has realized across their organization as a result of their brave decision to be one of the first companies in Canada to open the doors to conversation with their consumers:
• Changing the rules of engagement: how establishing a blog dramatically changed consumer expectations, as one of Yamaha’s competitors found out, the hard way
• Knocking down barriers – how bypassing the traditional platforms and systems of communication has significantly reduced negative chatter among consumers around recall
and other issues
• Product development: how product development insights have been generated, and acted
upon, via interaction on Sled Talk
• How to do it right: Chris will share insights into addressing the issues that trouble most
executives: negative comments, legal issues and, of course, ROI
We’ll also explain how Yamaha established benchmarks for consumer engagement on the blog,
measured against them and established a value for the program that far exceeded the initial
investment – ensuring senior executive support for many years to come.
Case Study: Setting Content Free at Ford - Web 2.0 Expo PresentationSocial Media Group
In this case study, Maggie Fox, CEO of Social Media Group, Ford's Social Media Agency, describes the process and platforms Ford brought into play to aggregate their digital content and transform the walled garden into a firehose of Creative-Commons licensed assets available for use by anyone who was interested in talking about the company or their brands – good or bad.
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:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Encryption in Microsoft 365 - ExpertsLive Netherlands 2024Albert Hoitingh
In this session I delve into the encryption technology used in Microsoft 365 and Microsoft Purview. Including the concepts of Customer Key and Double Key Encryption.
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
3. Challenges: Big Oil Analogy - The oil analogy Highlights some “Oil needs to be refined before it can be useful. Big data startups are the new refineries.”- Refinement (Big Data Start ups)Storage (it’s getting cheaper by the day)
Challenge: Big Oil Analogy “Oil needs to be refined before it can be useful. Big data startups are the new refineries.”- Refinement (Big Data Start ups)- Storage (it’s getting cheaper by the day)
Challenge: Big Oil Analogy This data needs to be stored somewhere Good news though: Storage is becoming cheaper Companies are investing in having data centres for future storage requirements. Examples: Google, Apple, Amazon and Facebook
Challenge: Big Brother Privacy online has always been a concern, however recently it became top of mind for most with Google’s announcement For the purposes of this examination, I’m going to split privacy concerns into two categories
Facebook: provides the environment Google: Free suite of services (search, docs, YouTube, etc)
- The Big Data that is made of our activities online, mobile usage, location-based information, etc. is by its very nature open. - To - How can we use this information to better society?
Big data has traditionally been used for good. Innovation and technology have allowed for it to be leveraged in new ways.MIT researchers have found evidence that changes in mobile phone calling patterns can be used to detect flu outbreaks; A Telefónica Research team has demonstrated that calling patterns can be used to identify the socioeconomic level of a population, which in turn may be used to infer its access to housing, education, healthcare, and basic services such as water and electricity; and researchers from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute and Columbia University have used data from Digicel, Haiti’s largest cell phone provider, to determine the movement of displaced populations after the earthquake, aiding the distribution of resources.”
Global Pulse is an innovation initiative of the UN Secretary-General, harnessing today's new world of digital data and real-time analytics to gain a better understanding of changes in human well-being. Global Pulse hopes to contribute a future in which access to better information sooner makes it possible to keep international development on track, protect the world's most vulnerable populations, and strengthen resilience to global shocks. Global Pulse functions as an innovation laboratory, bringing together expertise from UN agencies, governments, academia, and the private sector to research, develop, test and share tools and approaches for harnessing real-time data for more effective and efficient policy action.
Data Research. Global Pulse is discovering new indicators in digital data with the potential to give us a real-time understanding of community well being and real-time feedback on whether our policies and programmes are working.
The recent waves of global shocks – food, fuel, and financial – have revealed a wide gap between the onset of a global crisis and the availability of actionable information for decision makers to protect the world's most vulnerable populations. Traditional statistics have been effective in tracking medium- to longer- term development trends, but – given the latency of the data generated – are ineffective in generating the type of real-time information decision makers need in developing timely actions to help vulnerable populations cope with crises. Much of the data used to track progress toward the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), for example, dates back to 2008 or earlier – before the onset of the current economic crisis.
- Global Pulse is building a network of Pulse Labs for developing, testing and scaling innovative tools for real-time impact monitoring, and to mainstream the new approaches into policymaking.
This research project entailed the construction of a daily bread price index for six Latin American countries. The findings illustrate how the online retail prices reveal offline street price changes weeks before official sales numbers were able to reflect the inflation, potentially allowing policy makers to better prepare for the negative effect on consumers.
Online conversations on blogs and forums about bleak job prospects and job satisfaction were occurring months in advance of actual job losses, predicting the rise of unemployment in the US and Ireland and simultaneously revealing the strategies that unemployed are pursuing to overcome their new economic situation. Analysis revealed that the increases in the volume of on-line employment-related conversations in Ireland which were characterized by “confusion” show up 3 months before increases in unemployment, while in the US conversations about the loss of housing increased 2 months after unemployment spikes.
A research analyzed Twitter data from the US and Indonesia to measure the degree to which cost pressures related to food, fuel, housing, and the economy are discussed in online conversations. The research analyzes trends in these topics in conjunction with themes such as “afford,” showing how the volume and topics of the conversations change over time reflecting populations concerns.
- UN Global Pulse partnering with the private sector - This partnership allows for refined data to be overlaid with the observed data
Global Pulse was created by the UN Secretary-General in 2009 to explore opportunities for using real-time data to gain a more accurate understanding of population wellbeing, especially related to the impacts of global crises. The availability of real-time data holds tremendous promise for helping us detect the early signs of stress on vulnerable populations. It represents an unprecedented opportunity to track the human impacts of crises as they unfold, and to get real-time feedback on how well our policy responses are working.
The Paradigm ShiftThe debate over ownership of data and the willingness to share this information