Posts Tagged: Giulio Quaggiotto

How can technology improve public policy? Come find out in Dublin!

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Filed under: Anticorruption Development Development 2.0 Governance Social inclusion Social innovation

This June, policymakers and techies from around Europe will come together in Dublin to discuss how technology can be used to improve the policymaking process. The challenge Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have supported decision-making processes for many years. Whether used for analyzing datasets, managing processes, or monitoring expenditure, governments have been a traditional large… Read more »

Innovation for development: what is really different?

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Filed under: Development Development 2.0 Social innovation

One of the biggest challenges for innovation evangelists in development organizations is, I would argue, to clearly articulate “what is different” in the approaches they are advocating for as opposed to “business as usual.” I sat in many presentations where potentially disruptive, or at the very least, promising solutions were all too quickly dismissed with…

Why DC is the place to be this weekend if you are interested in big data for development

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Filed under: Development Development 2.0

(crossposted from OpenData: The World Bank data blog) If you haven’t registered yet for the Big Data Exploration event at the World Bank on March 15-17, you really should. After stops in Venice, Vienna, and a pre-event at Washington DC, data divers assemble at DC this weekend to take another crack at issues related to poverty measurement, plus fraud/anti-corruption… Read more »

Would you give up your personal data for development?

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Filed under: Development Development 2.0

Data philanthropy (as defined in Robert Kirkpatrick’s seminal post) was very much on the minds of participants at the data dive that we organized last week in Vienna, courtesy of KDZ and the Open Knowledge Foundation – Austrian chapter. If we want to tackle questions such as the real time measurement of poverty, many argued,… Read more »

Interested in big and open data and tackling poverty? 3 reasons (at least!) to come to Vienna on 22 February

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Filed under: Development Development 2.0 Poverty

Prasanna Lal Das and Giulio Quaggiotto As announced in a previous post, the World Bank, the UN Global Pulse and UNDP have joined forces to explore the potential of big data to inform the work of development organizations at the operational (rather than “theoretical”) level. We already had a first opportunity to delve into datasets… Read more »

Big data and development organizations: What happens when you move from theory to practice?

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Filed under: Development Development 2.0

Milica Begovic Radojevic, Benjamin Renoust and Giulio Quaggiotto It all sounds very good in principle, but what happens when you explore big data for development in practice? It is this “learning by doing” philosophy that inspired our big data for development challenge with the World Bank and the UN Global Pulse. Last week’s Masters of Networks provided the… Read more »

Can we reverse engineer development?

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Filed under: Development Social innovation

Giulio Quaggiotto @gquaggiotto Last week marked the second leg in the journey we initiated with Nesta to demystify the innovation buzzword for UNDP staff. Innovation is a hot topic in development quarters, which is attracting serious investment, research and sarcasm in equal measure. Seth Godin summarized the debate with the maxim: “Non-profit failure is too… Read more »