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FINANCIAL INCLUSION
What insights can we glean from microfinance and banking data? With UNCDF SHIFT Programme, PLJ supported financial institutions in Cambodia in analysing anonymised financial records. This new paper provides insights on savings and loans mobilisation, among others.
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DATA SCIENCE
How governments go about estimating poverty to better target programmes has never been an easy task. To support the Indonesian Government’s poverty reduction plan, researchers at our recent Research Dive investigated how new data, tools and methods can advance these efforts.
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RESEARCH INSIGHTS
“For low-income communities, finance is a social activity. Involvement of trusted peers and introducing relevant use cases instead of product knowledge can help address mental barriers to fintech adoption.” Findings and insights from our Fintech for Financial Inclusion research.
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DIGITAL DIPLOMACY
With technologies now introducing new dimensions to diplomacy, these changes have not only presented new opportunities but also several challenges. Do diplomats have the “digital know-how” to address these challenges? A few takeaways from our recent digital diplomacy seminar.
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BIG DATA
From idea to implementation, how can organisations go about designing their innovation projects? With these three tools from our Data Innovation for Development toolkit, this is how we ran our recent data innovation clinic as part of a big data for monitoring and evaluation workshop.
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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
A new animation, the "Temperature Circle," shows every nation on the planet is now in the red. But the alerting red isn’t the only problem, each country’s annual average temperature anomaly pulses up and down like a heartbeat on a monitor, and the patterns are anything but normal.
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NIEMAN LAB
Newsrooms used to be information-filtering enclaves, praised for their ability to separate fact from fiction. For journalists today, spotting fake news or data manipulation is an arms race for the truth, and it’s already clear to experts that the mission is not just a final win or lose.
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AZURE MAGAZINE
“Don’t let data intimidate you.” And whenever you think you’re getting lost in the maze of numbers “think of numbers as storytelling tools” that don’t just come in at the end of a conversation - but can also start a dialogue in your own language. Lessons from an information designer.
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LEIGH TAMI
Since analysis is relative, the combination of data sets one uses depends on what data or factors an analysis is relative to. How can we go about joining data sets to get better insights? With the illustration of a coat, a person and a person-in-coat, this analyst describes the fit.
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FINANCIAL TIMES
Ever since the internet moved from the squawky sound of a dial-up connection to broadband, there’s been concerns about a digital divide. But interestingly, consumers in some of the most rural areas of Britain still enjoy broadband speeds faster than those in the country's capital.
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