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Big Data Revolution for Sustainable Developmentand Humanitarian Action

Panel 3: Data from all parts of societies

Derval UsherPulse Lab Jakarta

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Vision Big Data harnessed responsibly as a public good

Mission Accelerate discovery and adoption of big data innovation for sustainable development and humanitarian actionUnited Nations Global Pulse A flagship innovation initiative of the United Nations Secretary-General on the data revolution

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What people saySocial media (content focus)Online advertisementComplaint systemRadio

What people doSocial media (location focus)Mobile data Utility usage dataPostal dataTransportation dataSearching keywordsOn-/ offline retail dataRemote sensing

Measuring Poverty With Machine Roof Counting

Social MediaPi = + 1 MoTi-2 + 2 MoTi-4 + 3 GTi + 4 GTi-1 + 5 GTi-3

Rice Price in Central Java 2014

Google Search

Crowdsourcing

Tracking Food Prices

Tracking The Spread Of Disease

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Gender Disaggregation: Access To Microfinance

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Mapping Access To Water & Energy

Water meter reading data @ Kampala

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EMA+CP012374226IN::::21200015891152+ES+1410241030+75-243+CY1224+274702+UTTAR PRADESH+28052+MADRID:SHP:DAVID AVENIDA:PISO 112:CLIENT_NUM:PACKSTATION_NUM:SIG+(55) 55 555 555:NAME1&DOMAIN1+(66) 66 666 666:MIGUEL@UN.ORG: MR.LUENGO:28100+1+3+A+LP+R+0.055:0.051:0.00358+127.43:INR+DDU+0:EUR:BIC NUMBER:IBAN NUMBER+301+MONS::43:CALLE CANALETAS:::::28100 Type of event reportedInternational tracking ID #Corresponding domestic tracking ID #Country of destinationCountry of originDate and timeItem was posted at office 75-243Item was posted by customer CY1224Postcode of senderPlace of senderPostcode of receiverAddress of receiverFeatures of postal items, e.g. priority and/or registered itemGross and net weight of itemAmount paid for postage and currency

The Internet Of Postal Things

Each pixel of this visualization is representing thousands real letters. every year more than 1 billion letters travel around the world.

... The internet of postal things has the potential to give us a global picture of what is happening in the world: we could measure economic trends, poverty, migration and resilience.

https://dev.unglobalpulse.net/postal3.mp4

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Optimising Transport & Infrastructure

Movie => bike mobility in Kampala11

Radio Content Analysis

Climate Impact Tracking

http://unglobalpulse.org/blog/haze-gazer-crisis-analysis-tool

Tracking Land Use & Social Impact

Analysing Citizen Feedback

http://unglobalpulse.org/blog/big-data-development-action-global-pulse-project-series