Welcome to Our Third Quarter Edition of Datavores
This time we want to take you behind-the-scenes, by profiling some of the amazing people engaged in our work, what their motivations are and what they do. We also look at how big data is improving Indonesia's public transport system and the importance of service design in supporting data analytics for decision-making. Happy reading!
From the Lab
SERVICE DESIGN
Applying Service Design to Support Data Analytics for Decision-making
Designing a service that will actually be used, where do we start? At the Lab we’ve been integrating Service Design principles as part of our approach. Here, we discuss how it helps with promoting effective adoption of our innovations after they are handed over for implementation.
Talking Data for Decision Making with Our Full Stack Engineer
Whilst most users tend to interact with the savvy, front-end interface of a data innovation, Muhammad Rheza “Boge”, our Full Stack Engineer, knows first-hand that there’s more than what meets the eye. He takes us behind-the-scenes to explain his role at the Lab.
From the Public Sector to the Private Sector and Back
Our Design Researcher, Lia Purnamasari, had the opportunity of engaging in design thinking research in both the public and private sectors. After almost a year working at a technology start-up, she's now back at the Lab and shares lessons that might be relevant for the team.
How Big Data Is Helping Transform Indonesia’s Public Transport System
Understanding the diverse needs of passengers using Indonesia’s public transport is crucial to operating an inclusive transport system. In this joint op-ed published in the Jakarta Post, we look at how Big Data can help, especially when disaggregated to focus on vulnerable cohorts.
What is Collective Crisis Intelligence and how might it help to improve responses in the humanitarian sector? This report takes a look at what it is all about, while explaining how it may strengthen a more human-centered approach to artificial intelligence.
Innovative data for urban planning and service provision: what are the opportunities and challenges of public-private data partnerships? This is the question explored in this publication, with highlights of relevant case studies from Indonesia and around the world.
Big Data can enhance poverty measurement and provide greater granularity and frequency for existing estimates. Citing examples from Pulse Lab Jakarta and others, UNESCAP highlights how mobile phone and earth observation data can monitor progress towards the SDGs.
Ranging from early detection to forecasting, the Global South AI4COVID program aims to support multidisciplinary COVID-19 research that is linked to government responses and policy making. Working in 18 countries across the Global South, these are the grantees' areas of work.
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.
