Mining Data for Digital Smoke Signals: From Crisis Patterns to Agile Policy Response

From mobile phone services and social media to remote sensing: How do we recognize changing patterns in this data-exhaustive landscape as potential "digital smoke signals" that could alert policy makers vulnerable populations are in trouble? United Nations Global Pulse is empowering a global research and innovation ecosystem for policymakers to use real-time new data with HPC analysis tools to protect communities from the impacts of slow-onset humanitarian crises.