UN GLOBAL PULSE: Product Harnessing innovation to protect the vulnerable Sara Farmer Chief Platform Architect, UN Global Pulse Executive Office of the Secretary-General United Nations Headquarters New York, NY
Global Pulse has a clear vision and an ambitious mission our vision Close the information gap between the onset of a crisis and the availability of actionable information for decision makers our mission Harness innovation to protect the vulnerable
Which stocks would you buy today… Dow-Jones Index 2001 -2008 …if this were all you knew?
The Information Gap When the global economic crisis hit in 2008, world leaders needed to know how the crisis was affecting vulnerable populations. That turned out to be a bit of a problem.
Household-level stats take months to collect, and years to validate!
The information gap is real… ? First data becomes available
…as are its consequences.
“Tracking” progress on the Millennium Development Goals
Yet during the global crisis, the world also changed in truly wondrous ways
Real-time “data exhaust” “the incidental, or ambient data that is created as a by-product of simply carrying on with our daily lives” Social Media • Citizen Reporting • Online News • Mobile Phone Services • Remote Sensing •
Global Pulse Products: Real-time monitoring framework Open platform architecture Local innovation labs
1. Data and Analysis
Shared analytical framework on vulnerability What is vulnerability? What creates vulnerability (impacts)? -Who does it affect (individual/household/community/demogra phy)? -How does it manifest? - Global Pulse Analytical Framework A common understanding of what vulnerability is and how we measure it lnot a standard definition for UN but shared agreement on and understanding of a Global Pulse definition l How do we measure it? What are the indicators and metrics for measuring vulnerability? -Global indicators will be selected -Guidelines created for national indicators -
Analysis doesn't happen without data UN and Government Data UN open data http: //data. un. org/ -License agreements -Data cleaning & normalisation -Individual privacy -Data Sovereignty - Open and Generated Data Open Data l. Population-generated data l. SMS surveys l. Gov 2. 0 apps l Private and Donated Data held by private companies Data Philanthropy Privacy protection -Intellectual property - - Looking for 'markers'
Analysis & Visualisation Methods Big Data methods Real-time streaming data -Very large datasets - Collaborative analysis Hunch labs l. Argumentation methods l Traditional methods - Frequentist statistics Bayesian statistics Test case: food insecurity (2008, 2011)
2. Platform and Tools
Global Pulse will add new tools to traditional approach to transform vulnerability monitoring Traditional indicators (Statistical vulnerability indicators) Active monitoring (ongoing door to door surveys) Physical verification (on site investigation via for eg. ad hoc household survey) Proxy indicators (Non-traditional indicators of vulnerability) Traditional Approach Passive monitoring (Real time observation of data streams) Physical verification (on site investigation via for eg. ad hoc household survey) Response If vulnerability corroborated New tools Community/Netw ork alert (Make community leaders sensitive to potential event) 1. Establish Baseline is established based on traditional and proxy indicators. This baseline may include a model of the risk terrain 2. Monitor baseline Baseline is monitored actively and passively for anomalies and changes 3. Investigat e anomalie s Teams investigate anomalies to verify vulnerability events 4. Respond If vulnerabilities are identified then responses is mobilized and targeted
Pulse Collaboration Platform Open standards, open APIs, open source components l Collaborate with your team, share hunches with your social network l Integrate with existing tools for data aggregation, analysis, visualization, mapping, alerting… l
Pulse Collaboration Platform
3. Innovation and Labs
Innovation labs have four roles Detect when vulnerable populations are being impacted by global shocks, l Understand the coping strategies – both positive and negative – that affected communities are adopting, l Share hypotheses, alerts and key information with regional partners, l Respond with better policy interventions sooner than possible today. l
Linked to local communities! Open. UN (“Blue Hacks”) l l l Open innovation cycle Hackathons Grand Challenges Application development teams Linked communities l l l Open source communities Open data communities Open response communities UNV Other UN units
Thank You http: //unglobalpulse. org/ @unglobalpulse Join in! l Pulse. Camp: Data – coming soon! l pulsechat@googlegroups. com l https: //sites. google. com/site/unglobalpulse/ l #openun
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