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Navigating the Future: A Glimpse into Our Strategic Foresight Training for Indonesia’s Ministry of Planning

20 December 2023

Understanding the Social Life of Data and Promoting Data Literacy

Exploring the Utility of Digital Data for Public Policy, Development Practice and Humanitarian Action

Working Together with Government, Enterprises and Communities to Create New and Improved Services

Showcasing the Talents that are Shaping the Nation

Akses Inklusif: A Digital Platform for Essential Services and Information for Parents of Children with Disability in Indonesia

2023-10-27

Notes from the Field: A reflection on doing a study involving people with disability

2023-10-25

Leaving no one behind: Making use of data innovation to respond to the needs of parents and caretakers of children with disabilities in Indonesia

2023-10-24

From Pulse Lab Jakarta to UN Global Pulse Asia Pacific: Expanding to Become a Regional Innovation Powerhouse

2023-10-23

Combining tools and traditional methods: Learning from our experimentation in qualitative data analysis

2023-10-17

Transforming Policy Approaches & Strengthening Partnerships: Highlights from Our 2022 Annual Report

2023-04-05

Empowering MSMEs in Indonesia: Using Data Analytics, Systemic Design and Strategic Foresight to Improve Policymaking for MSMEs’ Growth and Resilience

2023-04-05

Accelerating Digital Innovation Adoption in the Public Sector: Moving from Prototyping to Adoption

2023-04-05

Employing Service Design for Digital Transformation

2023-03-13

Beyond the Conventional: Designing a Customisable MSMEs Analytical Platform to Support Policy Making

2022-10-24

G20 “Recover Together Recover Stronger”: Participating in the Road to Recovery Through Digital Transformation

2022-10-19

Her Barriers are More Systemic than You Think: Learnings from our “Breaking Growth Barriers for Women Impact Entrepreneurs” research

2022-10-13

The Future of MSMEs in Indonesia: Redefining Business As Usual

2022-07-06

Assessing the Implementation of Indonesia’s National Nutrition Information System

2022-07-05

Beyond Data — Partnership is Key for Improving Health Services

2022-07-04

Health Data Analytics for Managing Pandemics

2022-03-29

Towards Inclusive Growth of MSMEs in Indonesia

2022-03-16

From the Public Sector to the Private Sector and Back

2021-10-04

Talking Data for Decision Making with Our Full Stack Engineer

2021-10-01

Applying Service Design to Support Data Analytics for Decision-making

2021-09-24

How Big Data Is Helping Transform Indonesia’s Public Transport System

2021-08-19

Disaggregated Data Can Help Provide More Inclusive Transport Services

2021-07-06

Towards Collaborative and Interconnected Innovations: Development as an Ecosystem

2021-07-05

Designing a Community-Based Air Quality Monitoring System to Mitigate Air Pollution Health Risks

2021-07-01

Beyond “Sticky Floors”

2021-04-28

Building Our Partners’ Capacity to Ensure Effective Adoption of New Tools & Approaches

2021-04-08

Putting the Year into Perspective

2021-03-29

Notes from the ‘Field’: Reflections from Our Participant-Centered Remote Qualitative Research During the Pandemic

2021-02-01

Adapting to Data-Driven Diplomacy with Machine Learning

2021-02-01

How Is Digitalization Helping Women-owned Micro and Small Businesses Cope During the Pandemic?

2021-01-27

Expanding the Definition of Scaling Up

2021-01-26

Pulse Lab Jakarta Repositioning 2.0

2020-10-13

Tapping into the Value of Data for Better Lives

2020-10-08

Data Innovation for Policy Making in Indonesia: Takeaways from My Recent Training on Policy-Related Project Management

2020-09-30

Alternative Use of Traditional Data in Times of COVID-19

2020-09-28

Extending the Art of the Possible with Big Data to Better Inform COVID-19 Responses

2020-07-02

Identifying Potential Positive Deviants (PDs) Across Rice Producing Areas in Indonesia: An Application of Big Data Analytics and Approaches

2020-06-23

Inclusive Innovation Series: Stories Across the Ecosystem — Field Notes from Pulse Lab Jakarta

2020-06-15

Big Data Ethics in Development Practice

2020-06-12

What Our Work Adds Up to In Terms of Impact

2020-05-05

Translating “After Dark” Recommendations into Action: Gojek Creates Safe Zones for Women in Transit

2020-04-01

From the Shores of the Pacific to the High-rises of Jakarta: Musings of a GIS Officer

2020-03-24

Using Ride-hailing Data for Sustainable Transport Systems: Reflections from Our Early Journey in Bangkok, Thailand

2020-03-24

Key Lessons from Trialling Our #TabunginAja (#JustSaveIt) Behavioural Intervention Campaign for Improving Financial Inclusion

2020-03-23

Medan’s City Government Adopts Recommendations from the After Dark Research

2019-12-19

Understanding Population Movement After the 2018 Central Sulawesi Natural Disasters

2019-12-12

Extending Financial Services to Micro Enterprises: Lessons from Our FinTech Challenge Fund Winners

2019-11-27

Repositioning Pulse Lab Jakarta

2019-11-26

Monitoring Our Agri-food Systems at Higher Resolutions Using Non-Conventional Data

2019-11-13

Behind the Scenes of PLJ’s Lab on Wheels

2019-11-12

Data and AI for Progress During UNGA

2019-10-30

Imagining The Year 2030

2019-10-02

Informing National Statistics and Managing Disaster Risks

2019-10-02

How Can Non-Traditional Data Help Us Better Understand Household Financial Vulnerability?

2019-10-01

Marrying Data Science and My Love for Travelling: A Well-spent Summer Getaway

2019-09-27

Changing Dynamics in Data-Driven Approaches: Where We Are Now

2019-09-25

Tracing Migration Patterns Across Indonesia: Big Data Meets Thick Data

2019-08-02

Dataminr Partnership Equips UN Teams with AI Tech to Keep Abreast of Crises

2019-08-01

The Need for Non-Conventional Data Sources to Improve the Sustainability of Agri-Food Systems in the Developing World

2019-08-01

Mapping Smallholder Farmers in Indonesia to Inform Agriculture Policies

2019-08-01

Using Social Media Imagery to Nowcast Air Pollution

2019-07-02

On the Signing of Satu Data Indonesia, Implementation and What’s Ahead: A Conversation with the Executive Office of the President of Indonesia

2019-06-28

Benefits of Using Mobile Phone Data for Official Statistics

2019-06-27

A Closer Look At The Making of Our After Dark Personas

2019-06-26

New Study by Global Pulse Highlights Risks of AI-Generated Texts, Creates Fake UN Speeches

2019-06-25

Community Q&A: PLJ's Head of Office Talks with the Centre for Humdata

2019-06-19

UN and Dataminr Partner to Use AI for Humanitarian Response

2019-05-30

Managing Relevant Information in the Aftermath of Natural Disasters: Launching PLJ’s Latest Data Analytics Platform

2019-05-29

Nevertheless, She Persisted: Learnings From Our After Dark Research

2019-05-28

Tracking the Progress of Our FinTech Challenge Fund Winners

2019-05-27

Communities Across Indonesia Still Face Water Problems: A Consolidated Effort is Necessary to Ensure Access to Clean Water

2019-05-20

Mengapa pelaku usaha mikro kurang tertarik untuk menggunakan layanan teknologi finansial?

2019-05-08

Nowcasting Inflation to Keep Indonesia’s Economic Growth on Track

2019-04-30

Fusing Behavioural Science and Human-Centered Design to Accelerate Financial Inclusion Efforts

2019-04-30

DatakuID: Using Data Visualisation to Inform Government Decision Making

2019-04-29

Analysing Transportation Data from Ride-Hailing Services to Improve Transport Integration

2019-04-12

Menganalisis Data Transportasi dari Jasa Ride Hailing untuk Meningkatkan Integrasi Sistem Transportasi

2019-04-12

Striking the Balance between Data Innovation and Responsible Use of Data

2019-04-04

In year of El Niño, new uses of big data can aid disaster management

2019-03-30

UN Global Pulse’s Annual Report 2018

2019-03-29

Enhancing VAMPIRE’s User Experience With Improved Interactivity

2019-03-28

Mapping Financial Services Points Across Indonesia

2019-03-27

Unpacking the Issue of Missed Use And Misuse of Data

2019-03-19

Decision-making 2.0 for Development and Humanitarianism

2019-03-11

Modelling Internal Migration in Vanuatu with Mobile Network Data

2019-03-09

Suara Komunitas: Improving Disaster Response Through Community Engagement

2019-03-08

Using Shipping Data to Improve Indonesia’s Port Network Connectivity

2019-03-07

Celebrating the Achievements of Women in Innovation with #OneWordOfAdvice

2019-03-06

Measuring Impact for Development Mutants, An Ongoing Conversation

2019-01-29

Strengthening Humanitarian Action with Insights from Mobile Network Data

2019-01-11

Integrating Big Data Sources to Monitor and Respond to Natural Disasters

2019-01-08

Coming Together to Design Safe Transit Solutions for Women

2019-01-02

Winners of the Microenterprise Fintech Innovation Challenge Fund Prepare to Pilot their Ideas

2018-12-04

Using Mobile Network Data for Development: How it works

2018-12-04

Financial Inclusion in Indonesia: What Can We Learn from a Data Dive?

2018-12-03

Designing a Do-It-Yourself Diary for Our After Dark Fieldwork

2018-11-29

Scaling Big Data Applications for Good - Global Pulse at the 2018 UN World Data Forum

2018-11-04

Nowcasting Air Quality Using Social Media

2018-10-25

After Dark: Encouraging Safe Transit for Women Travelling at Night

2018-10-24

Accelerating the Adoption of Big Data for Development

2018-10-08

Haze Gazer and VAMPIRE Continue to Chart Change

2018-10-02

Scaling VAMPIRE through WFP’s Innovation Accelerator Bootcamp

2018-10-02

Using Deep Learning to tackle Traffic Safety in Jakarta - a collaboration with University of Chicago and Jakarta Smart City

2018-09-26

Pulse Stories: Banking on Fintech

2018-09-03

What Can Ship Identification Systems Tell Us About Development Policy?

2018-08-13

Snapshots From Our Recent Data Innovation Clinic

2018-08-03

PLJ Research Dive 7: Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Estimating Poverty

2018-07-31

Indonesia Development Forum 2018 - Highlights from PLJ: Best Paper & Fintech for Financial Inclusion Insights

2018-07-27

Transforming Diplomacy with 21st Century Tech and Approaches

2018-07-24

Colloqumotion 2018 Series - The Sustainability of Coral Reefs (June)

2018-07-03

Charting change: what we’ve learned from tracking our data tools and approaches

2018-06-27

Wawasan Satu Data: applying human-centred design principles to data governance

2018-06-22

Data Strategising with the UN in Asia Pacific

2018-06-06

Colloqumotion Midyear Recap in Videos

2018-05-31

Pasienia, A Social Platform for Patients with Similar Health Conditions

2018-05-24

Life in the Field: Reflecting on Our Fintech Research Project Methods

2018-05-23

How We Define Impact for our Data Innovation Lab

2018-05-02

What is a Smart City Solution Without A Citizen Perspective?

2018-05-01

“Cities on Foot”: Rethinking How Pedestrians Move About in Megacities

2018-04-27

Pulse Lab Jakarta Year in Review

2018-04-03

Indonesian Government Develops a Monitoring Dashboard for the SDGs

2018-04-02

Exploring Big Data to Inform Urban Development Planning

2018-03-29

Government of Indonesia Integrates Big Data into Economic Management

2018-03-12

Building a Data Science Movement within the Public Sector—Learning from the British Government’s Experience

2018-03-01

Pulse Lab Diary: A Youthful Winter Visit to the United Nations’ HQ

2018-02-28

Social Media Encourages Public Transport Analysis in the Maldives

2018-02-23

Research Dive Alumni Meet Up Across Four Cities

2018-02-13

Improving Access to Financial Services with Fintech

2018-01-31

Fusing datasets to track the impact of disasters in Indonesia and beyond… VAMPIRE is on it!

2018-01-30

Telling Your Big Data Stories with Data Visualisation

2018-01-26

Introducing Colloqumotion: A Series of Learning Talks on Development Issues

2018-01-22

But really, how do you build demand for data science in Indonesia’s public sector?

2017-12-28

Pulse Reflection—Looking Back on 2017

2017-12-28

Designing Conversations on Public Service Delivery

2017-12-27

CIKM 2017—AnalytiCup, BigTransport and An Honourable Mention

2017-12-22

Understanding, Planning and Building Data Governance

2017-12-14

Data Privacy in the Big Data Era

2017-12-01

Exploring Ideas For Sustainable Transportation Systems

2017-11-28

Connecting Farmers with Investors the TaniFund Way

2017-11-24

Journey to A Resilient Ternate

2017-11-23

Announcing 2017 Big Ideas Competition Winner’s Circle

2017-10-31

Using Big Data for Statistics to Track the SDGs

2017-10-27

Mitigating Flooding In Bandung City

2017-10-23

Identifying Opportunities to Strengthen Data Governance in the Public Sector

2017-10-09

LaCaK Malaria Reporting System Receives Best Adaptation Award in Singapore

2017-10-02

How Social Media Can Help With Cyclones In Disaster Monitoring

2017-09-28

A Closer Look At Our 4th Research Dive Findings

2017-09-27

Navigating the Service Design Terrain

2017-09-22

How We Hack At Pulse Lab Jakarta

2017-09-12

Co-Designing to Lessen Haze Impact Among Children in Central Kalimantan

2017-09-11

4th Research Dive Wrap-up: Trade & Competitiveness

2017-08-25

Highlights From Our Data Revolution for Policy Makers Conference

2017-08-23

Pulse Stories: Setting Sail

2017-08-18

Blending Human and Machine Intelligence During Crises

2017-08-10

Improving Mobility in Bandung: Ideas from the #DataCollab Team

2017-08-08

The Gender Gap in Financial Inclusion: What Can We Learn From Microfinance and Banking Data?

2017-07-31

Research Diving with OLX Indonesia

2017-07-24

Amartha, Using Technology to Re-define Creditworthiness in Rural Indonesia

2017-07-19

Scaling Up our Drought Impact Tracker

2017-07-18

Hyperlocal Participatory Planning: Urban Data and Design Approaches Fit for this Century

2017-07-14

From One Smart City to Another: My Big Data Love Letter from Russia

2017-07-12

An Island that Punches Above its Weight

2017-06-22

Inferring Jakarta Commuting Statistics from Twitter

2017-05-31

From Traditional to Digital-Savvy: The Story of Kampoeng Cyber

2017-05-30

The Road to Satu Data Indonesia

2017-05-25

Data Innovation for a More Responsive Bandung City Government

2017-05-22

Tracking Road Infrastructure Projects with Smartphones

2017-04-27

UNLOCKing Change in the UN System

2017-04-04

Research Dive Review: Statistics for the SDGs

2017-03-24

From Design Workshops to Delivery: A How-to Guide

2017-03-22

A New Tool for Assisting Vulnerable Populations During Droughts

2017-02-28

Data Innovation Clinics at Bappenas

2017-02-13

Research Dive: Statistics for the SDGs Call for Applications

2017-02-10

Announcing the Data Revolution for Policy Makers Conference

2017-01-31

Six Stages of Innovation for Development

2017-01-30

Meet Kerjabilitas, a Start-up Helping People with Disabilities to Enter the Workforce

2016-12-30

Data Innovation Mini Grants: What we learned one year on…

2016-12-30

Transporters: More than meets the eye

2016-12-22

Peering Through the Haze

2016-12-19

Augmenting Big Data: Haze Edition

2016-11-30

Meet DSI, the Home of Data Enthusiasts with Big Plans for Indonesia

2016-11-30

Research Dive Review: Data Innovation for Disaster Management

2016-11-29

The Ministry of Trade’s Got Talent

2016-11-16

Image Mining for Disaster Management

2016-11-11

Imagining a Data Empowered Village

2016-10-31

Meet Anda and Abraham, a Couple of Tech Entrepreneurs Working to Improve Maternal Health in Indonesia

2016-10-28

Urun Ide Jatim: Incubation Update

2016-10-24

The Era of Big Data for Official Statistics

2016-09-30

Tracking Infrastructure Projects Across An Archipelago

2016-09-28

What does data innovation mean for traditional social science research?

2016-09-22

Pulse Stories: Let’s Get Down To Business

2016-09-21

Celebrating the Wealth of Big Ideas from Indonesia

2016-09-02

Technology fixes for public admin in Indonesia: the ultimate shortcut?

2016-07-19

Urun Ide Jatim: the quest to find home-grown public service innovation

2016-07-15

Translator Gator: Wrapping-Up Phase I

2016-07-04

Pulse Stories: Too Cool For School

2016-06-16

Reconnecting The State With Its Citizens: From Talk To Action

2016-06-02

Mapping It Out: Four Facilitation Tools To Help Structure Data Projects

2016-06-01

Drones For Community Planning

2016-04-01

Haze Gazer: A Crisis Analysis Tool

2016-03-17

PLJ Diaries: Translator Gator, The First 50 days

2016-03-11

Pulse Stories: Mother’s Love

2015-12-22

#HackGov: Technology From People, To People, With People

2015-12-17

Hack with Gov

2015-11-18

Tips on Service Design for the Public Sector

2015-11-17

Tracking The Hidden Impact of Indonesia’s Forest and Peatland Fires

2015-11-15

PLJ Diaries: Discussing Data Privacy in The Hague

2015-11-09

Data Innovation and Participatory Design: A Mash-up for Urban Development

2015-10-23

Combining “Big” and “Small” Data to Build Urban Resilience in Jakarta

2014-04-09

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