UN+Gobal+Pulse

Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General, Director: Robert Kirkpatrick
 * UN Global Pulse (Project)**

Global Pulse is an innovation initiative in the Executive Office of the UN Secretary-General, harnessing today’s new world of data to gain a real-time understanding of changes in human well-being. 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. Our implementation strategy takes a systems-based approach, with three interdependent areas of activity:
 * 1) Data Research: Exploring innovative methods and frameworks for combining new types of real-time data with traditional development indicators to detect early impacts of global shocks;
 * 2) Developing Collaborative Technologies: Assembling a technology platform - largely assembled from existing free and open source technologies - to house cutting edge tools for sharing hypotheses and integrating, analyzing and visualizing data;
 * 3) Network of Pulse Labs: A catalytic network of in-country innovation centers—the first of which has been established in New York—that will use the methods and tools for real-time impact monitoring, collaborative analysis and decision-making at the country level and support the adoption of useful innovations into standard practice.

Traditional statistics have been effective in tracking medium- to longer- term development trends, but – given the latency of the data generated – have little usefulness in generating the type of real-time information decision makers need in developing timely actions to help vulnerable populations cope with crises. The delay in data is often compounded by a knowledge gap: when household-level data does become available, it is generally only able to paint a partial picture of how populations have been coping with crisis-related stress factors. Knowing in close to real time the “how, where and when” of a crisis is crucial for the design of effective policy responses. While this requirement may be obvious in the aftermath of a natural disaster, it is also increasingly evident in the context of slower-onset crises, such as the financial crisis. Finding out today how a community began coping with a crisis two years ago is generally too late to prevent longer-term damage. The price a country pays for not knowing how specific segments of its population are coping with shocks is high. Hard-won development gains are at risk as the resilience of families is eroded, causing households to lose ground in their struggle to escape poverty and driving many of those who had escaped back into destitution. (Source: http://www.unglobalpulse.org/about)

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