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UN Prioritises Quality Of Data For Policy Development
This article was written by Kelly Ng and originally published at Asia Pacific FutureGov on 5 December, 2013. Republished with permission. The United Nations emphasises the importance of statistics in...
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Featured Tool: MicroMappers
1) In a nutshell The tool: MicroMappers assists in the creation of crisis maps by providing a compilation of MicroTasking apps used by volunteers worldwide to tag and categorise social media items...
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Featured Tool: Dataminr
In a nutshell: Initially targeted towards financial professionals, for whom up-to-the-minute knowledge of market developments is crucial, Dataminr has quickly proved itself useful for journalists and...
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Featured Tool: Tame
In a nutshell: Tame analyses Twitter-user timelines and gives a real-time overview of the most relevant links, topics and accounts found amongst them. Recognising the unique potential of Twitter’s...
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Featured Tool: Flowminder Foundation
In a nutshell: Tool: Founded by Linus Bengtsson, Xin Lu and Erik Wetter, the Sweden-based non-profit Flowminder Foundation is dedicated to improving response and alleviation coordination in regions and...
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Can Twitter Data Be Used To Track Changing Food Commodity Prices?
This article was written by Jong Gun Lee and originally published at Pulse Lab Jakarta on 11 August, 2014. Republished with permission. Imagine going to your local shop today and finding out that the...
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Crowdsourcing Flash-Flood Warnings That Race The Waters Downstream
This article was written by Anu John and originally published by UNDP on 21 August, 2014. Republished with permission. Innovation is about taking risks, refusing to bow down to the impossible. Right?...
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Satellite Images As Proof
This article was written by Sheila S. Coronel and originally published at WatchDog Watcher on 2 September, 2014. Republished with permission. In the past week, three stories on three very different...
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The Ethics Of Sensor Journalism: Community, Privacy, And Control
This article was written by Josh Stearns, and commissioned and edited by Fergus Pitt on behalf of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University. Republished with permission. The rise of...
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Al Jazeera May Look To Gamers To Help With Investigative Journalism
This article was written by Andrea Ayres Deets and originally published on her blog 7 October, 2014. Republished with permission. Helping Al Jazeera to solve international crime might one day be as...
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Establishing Social Media Hashtag Standards For Disaster Response
This article was written by Patrick Meier and originally published at iRevolution on 5 November, 2014. Republished with permission. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has...
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The Data Revolution For Human Development
This article was written by Selim Jahan, Director of UNDP’s Human Development Report Office, and originally published on Human Development Report’s website on 7 November 2014. Republished with...
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Can Data Visualization Make It Easier To Crowdsource Corruption Monitoring?
This article was written by Justin DeShazor and originally published at AidData on 21 August, 2014. Republished with permission. “I hear people who think that we can decree today that there be no...
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Using Social Media To Anticipate Human Mobility And Resilience During Disasters
This article was written by Patrick Meier and originally published at iRevolution on 1 December, 2014. Republished with permission. The analysis of cell phone data can already be used to predict...
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Journalists Grapple With Complexities Of Covering Slavery
This article was written by Tim Large and originally published at Thomson Reuters Foundation on 1 December, 2014. Republished with permission. LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – More people are...
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How The Cambodia Daily Went HTTPS To Protect Its Readers
This article was written by Joshua Wilwohl and originally published at Online Journalism Blog on 15 December, 2014. Republished with permission. During the past year, The Cambodia Daily has witnessed...
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Can Data Help Us Understand How Citizens Feel About Their States?
This article was written by Victoria L. Lemieux and originally published at The World Bank’s Governance for Development blog on 24 November, 2014. Republished with permission. Last week, I had the...
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Sharing Your Location Privately
This article was written by Hans-Christoph Steiner and originally published at The Guardian Project on 23 January, 2015. Republished with permission. Facebook location sharing embeds the location in...
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Build Custom Visual Reports Using NGO Aid Map’s New Data Analysis Tool
This article was written by Sarah Siguenza, InterAction Staff, and originally published at InterAction. Republished with permission. Aid effectiveness and transparency are driven by open, accessible,...
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The Case For Encryption
This article was written by Dave Seglins and originally published by Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) on 5 June, 2015. Republished with permission. Forgive me for sounding a little...
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