Pulse Lab Kampala

A Data Revolution for Sustainable Development

In Action

Paula Hidalgo-Sanchis, PhD Manager, Pulse Lab Kampala

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Global Pulse

“…now is the time to take innovation to the next level…”

Pulse Lab NYC Est. 2010

Pulse Lab Jakarta Est. 2012 Pulse Lab

Kampala Est. 2013

a lab network

Data Revolution = Opportunity

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

Big Data: data, data, everywhere!

Taking the Pulse

Cost of data collection

Risk of data collection

Speed of response

Adaptive execution

New insights

Use for development?

A real-time map of poverty in Cote d’Ivoire?

How do we work?

UN Delivering as One!

at Pulse Lab Kampala…

Responding to disease outbreaks with CDRs

Understanding human mobility with GPS data

Gulu!district!2012!

Gulu!district!2014!

Monitoring poverty with “machine counting”

Monitoring the environment with satellite imagery

Implementing community reporting

Analyzing people’s voices with radio mining

Analyzing people’s voices with radio data

Resources!needed!to!handle!“the!high!cases!of!domes=c!violence!in!this!country.”!

Poli=cian!condemned!violence!against!women!by!saying!that!“men!are!the!custodians!of!women”!

Call!for!a!dedicated!police!unit!to!handle!cases!of!gender!based!violence.!

Filter: violence and (gender or women or sexual or domestic)!

Filter: disease or health !

There!has!not!previously!been!much!focus!on!cancer!in!Uganda.!

Reloca=on!of!health!centers!in!Mbarara!district.!

Overuse!of!an=bio=cs!for!chicken!is!reducing!their!effec=veness!for!humans.!

In the pipeline…

Poverty trends - roof counting Vulnerability - mobile top ups Next elections – online digital print

Thank you!

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