UN Global Pulse: Technology buildsSara-Jayne Farmer. Relief11, August 2011

GP Tech Deliverables

Toolset

Hunchworks

Small tools (real-time monitoring etc)

Toolbag

Collaboration platform

Federated platform network

User management

Data and tool repositories

Innovation labs (technology)

Technology localisation

Tech innovations

Technologists cookbook

Communities

Local tech communities

Innovations community management

Proof of concept:

Oliver:

look up datasources

look up and use tools

connect to analysts in New York and Uganda labs

look up tools and datasources in the crisis toolkit

Hunchworks:

navigate the HunchWorks interface, and see example hunches in it

add hunches to HunchWorks

Add comments to hunches

Share evidence with hunches

Toolbag:

Not this time.

GP Tech Timeline

July 2011

Some clean UN datasets

Hunchworks1 build

Oliver2 build

Website build

August 2011

Oliver2 build

Sept 2011

Demo to GA: Hunchworks and Oliver

Oct 2011

Slack

Nov 2011

Demo to G20: no tech content needed

Contest announcement

Dec 2011

Rhok 4.0

Jan 2012

Slack

Feb 2012

Contest go-live

Private sector data available

2012

Start Blue Hacks

Start platform build

Detectwhen vulnerable populations are being impacted by global shocks

Understandcoping strategies both positive and negative that affected communities are adopting

Share hypotheses, alerts and key information with regional partners

Respondwith better policy interventions sooner than possible today

Analysis: close the vulnerability information gap

Open standards, open APIs, open source

Access data and tool repositories

Collaborate with team, share hunches with social network

Integrate with existing tools for data aggregation, analysis, visualization, mapping, alerting

Oliver: collaboration platform

Establish ground truth quickly when crises unfold

Leverage global network of field staff

Add capacity: engage and extend external networks of experts

Share knowledge: porous membranes within/beyond the UN

Combine local knowledge, wider analytical expertise

Coherent picture from fragmented evidence, distributed teams

Hunchworks: hypothesis collaboration tool

Shunt: toolkitData preparation

Big data

Statistics and modelling

Visualisation

Innovations management

Portfolios of needs

Lifecycles for ideas

Blue Hacks: open source community

Hire bright local team

Identify local gaps and opportunities

Design, develop and test solutions

Train team to drive innovation

Mainstream their approaches

PulseLabs: Country-level innovation labs

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