UNHCR provides crucial support to forcibly displaced populations around the world, including access to shelter and basic services. Coordinating these activities requires data about the individuals under UNHCR’s mandate. The number of persons of concern to UNHCR (PoC)...
Data is important. Obviously. UNHCR sits on a data goldmine. Data is gathered, circulated, cleaned, analysed, continuously visualised, every second of every day, in emergencies, through to durable solutions. From registration, to financial verifications of partnership...
Big data refers to the astonishing amount of information that is created as a by-product of the growing digitization of our lives – our use of mobile phones, social networks, search engines, online payment methods, apps, and so on. What is exciting for the...
The long, winding road of our Innovation Fellowship led us to Cape Town and the AfricaCom conference, the largest meeting of telecom operators in Africa. After many hours of brainstorming, funneling ideas, researching, reaching out to experts, and prototyping, our...
