Image credit: co.exist
A theme that interests me is how governments are using the vast amounts of digital information to better provide services. (I think this is the first post on the theme.) One of the agencies at the cutting edge is the UN. This story from co.exist describes the UN's efforts to use data in a program called Global Pulse (GP). GP is an "innovation incubator" with three objectives:
- "Developing useful indicators for real-time feedback about conditions on the ground and how policies are preforming"
- "Building a free open-source technology toolkit to make sense of data for decision makers"
- "Establishing the Pulse Lab Network, where new data applications will be pioneered and tested"
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon explains the need for GP in this quote from the co.exist post.
"Our inability to understand the impacts of a crisis while there is still time to adjust our policies and programs threatens to reverse years of hard-won development gains,”
Data Without Borders is participating in this UN initiative.
The inspiration for this post came from a story on Flowing Data, a very good blog on data analysis.
