In In this edition of Datavores, we traverse through the application of IoT (Internet of Things), specifically in systems to allow communities to monitor and take action towards air quality, through to analytics of state-owned enterprise data and the application of behavioural science in identifying barriers to adoption of technology by women necessity business owners, and how our reflection on the interconnectivity of our work has led us to think about the "inter-net of development", by looking at development as an ecosystem.
From the Lab
DEVELOPMENT ECOSYSTEMS
Towards Collaborative and Interconnected Innovations
Many national and international development actors have created systems to address particular aspects of COVID-19 response, but the lack of interlinkages between existing and emerging systems has often created issues and inefficiencies. Reflecting on our evolving role as an analytic partnerships accelerator, we hope to support a broader conversation across development actors in looking anew at development as an ecosystem.
Disaggregated Data Can Help Provide More Inclusive Transport Services
PT KAI (the national railway company) teamed up with PLJ and Bappenas to undertake data analytics research to better understand its passenger travel behaviour with a view to improving services, especially amongst vulnerable cohorts. Here we reflect on the policy and development opportunities emerging from findings.
Designing a Community-Based Air Quality Monitoring System
In some communities across Indonesia, air pollution poses a threat to the health of residents, and particularly to children. To encourage mitigating actions at the community level, we worked with Kopernik and ITB Udara Project to design a user-centric system that leverages air quality data and applies human-centered design principles.
Overcoming Behavioural Barriers to Utilising Digital Tools
Opportunities abound for women entrepreneurs in Indonesia to leverage digitalisation for their businesses, but often preventing them are behavioural barriers, known as the sticky floors. How might we help them to overcome these barriers? Our Beyond Sticky Floors report offers some design ideas.
To unlock data as a resource, one solution is new types of data aggregators, trusted intermediaries that bring together public and private data and grant access to data to the right actors for the right reasons whilst protecting liberties and privacy. At UN Global Pulse, we call these new types of data aggregators "data networks".
This latest report is informed by the experiences of 25 UN entities that are leveraging behavioural science to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. It highlights trends and capabilities, as well as opportunities for systematic behavioural science application across the UN system.
Policy initiatives are designed with good intentions, but they don't always land well with citizens. Delivering policy intent in an efficient and effective manner is important, and that’s exactly what a multidisciplinary policy design team is set up to do. This article discusses the value of having these teams.
Digital technology alone is not a strategy, but rather a means to an end. Today, it is becoming clearer that even long-term solutions must be based on the future needs of users. As for the finance sector, these are three fields of action that can be derived for future-oriented and resilient financial service providers.
With communities adapting and looking beyond the unparalleled socio-economic challenge brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic, it is evident that sustainable development needs collective intelligence. How can governments and organizations better mobilise intelligence for the SDGs?
Pulse Lab Jakarta is a joint data innovation facility of the United Nations (Global Pulse) and the Government of Indonesia (via the Ministry of National Development Planning, Bappenas). Functioning as an analytic partnerships accelerator, the Lab applies mixed-methods approaches in the problem, solution and identity spaces, and is focused on catalysing connections across the private sector, government and civil society to support policies and action for effective development and humanitarian practice.
