A new United Nations-backed initiative on timely Sustainable Development Goal data has people talking about the world’s natural resource in shortest supply—time. How would you feel about studying for ...

Robert Kirkpatrick is Director of UN Global Pulse, an innovation initiative of the Secretary-General on big data and artificial intelligence. Felicia Vacarelu is the Communications Officer of UN ...

Innovative technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) are transforming and modernizing how data is generated, collected, and analyzed across different industries. Specifically, innovative ...

Innovative technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) are transforming and modernizing the way data is generated, collected, and analyzed across different industries and fields of study. 1 ...

A drone's view of empty roads of Metro Manila during the pandemic. Data is now recognized as the “new oil” for the digital economy. While development actors have relied on traditional sources of data, ...

Timely, accurate and robust data are critical to analyzing poverty and inequality within and across countries, and thereby ensuring development actions are targeted and effective in supporting the ...

World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives – the first WDR focused solely on the role of data for development – comes at a time when the COVID-19 pandemic is wreaking havoc on the global ...

Businesses today are collecting huge volumes of data at incredibly high speeds. This influx of big data can seem overwhelming, especially if you aren’t sure how to analyze it. However, when this data ...