The Future of Drones for Good
We speak to Jonty Slater, Managing Director of The Blue Globe, who has worked with international development innovation programmes for the l...
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The Data Frontier
Data is critical to international development and any evidence-based decision-making. And with the rise in the volume and potential of digital data - such as from satellite data, mobile phon...
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12 episodesTesting beyond the tech
We first speak to Ruth McPake from the Frontier Technologies Hub. Ruth is a Senior Consultant at IMC Worldwide, one of the partner organisat...
Plugging into existing systems
We speak to Tautvydas Juskauskas, Drones Specialist at UNICEF Supply Division and member of the Interagency Supply Chain Group, about how to...
People, products and procedures
In this episode we are joined by Nigel Breyley, drones expert and independent technical advisor on all seven drone projects conducted with t...
Bright spots and ripple effects
We speak to Tendai Pasipanodya and Hans-Peter Thamm from the Drones Doing Good Alliance. Tendai is a systems change expert with 17 years of...
Mapping humanity: using frontier data technologies and AI to provide hyper-local spatial data around the world
We talk to Melissa Persaud, Director of New Business, Global Development at Fraym, about their pioneering work using frontier data technolog...
Governing Data: Unlocking new and existing data sources for public decision making
We talk to Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of the Governance Laboratory (The GovLab) at New York Uni...
Data and diplomacy: frontier data for diplomacy and international relations work at the FCDO
We talk to Harriet Cross, the UK High Commissioner to Trinidad & Tobago. We hear about Harriet’s interests in making better use of frontier...
Building back better: the new data paradigm and how we can use it to build strong and inclusive societies
We talk to Emmanual Letouze, Director and co-Founder of Data-Pop Alliance, a coalition on Big Data and development co-created in 2013 by the...
Complex Cities, Digital Data: Building urban climate resilience through the locally led production of new data
We talk to Edward Anderson, Senior Technology and Resilience Specialist for the World Bank based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Edward works at...
How to engage with data: Promoting data science in government and beyond
We talk to Tom Wilkinson, Data Science Hub Lead of the Data Science Campus, Office for National Statistics. The purpose of the Hub is to sup...
Counting Cows: Putting data science tools in the hands of development decision makers
We speak to Tim Harris, user engagement lead for the Data Science Hub of the Data Science Campus, Office for National Statistics. The purpos...