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Product Description
Flowminder is a non profit organization that’s goal is to apply academic rigors and statistical analysis to research projects in low and middle income countries. They provide the analysis to partners and publish the data to provide decision support. Flowminder focuses on five areas including disaster response, socioeconomic analysis, epidemiology, capacity building and policy engagement.
“Our primary focus is operational projects with governments and international agencies. For validation and method description we often then publish them in peer reviewed journals”.Interview with representative
Target SDGs
SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities
Target Users (Target Impact Group)
Public Sector Agencies, NGOs
Distributors / Implementing Organizations
Flowminder, Worldpop
Manufacturing/Building Method
Flowminder is an independent research institute and many of Flowminder's staff are affiliated with academic institutions across the world. Their researchers range from economists, geographers, doctors, and computer scientists. They attempt to apply academic rigor to international development issues and publish their work in an open fashion.
Intellectural Property Type
Copyright
User Provision Model
Flowminder attempts to provide access to their analysis in a number of ways. They publish a large number of articles in peer reviewed journals as well as data sets which are available from partners. Flowminder is very active in social media along with their partners in attempting to get out the information to decision makers and the public at large.
Distributions to Date Status
Flowminder does not have statistics on distribution. Interview with representative
Areas of analysis
Disaster response, socioeconomic, migratory patterns, GIS, good governance
Data acquisition methods
Anonymous cellular data, remote sensing, survey data, government census data, partner NGOs data sharing
Open source code (Y/N/Other)
No
Open source data (Y/N/Other)
Other, depending on the project some data sets are published
Subscription required for data aquisition (Y/N)
No
Additional organizations/companies used to publish or analyze the data? (Y/N)
Yes
-HDX
-WorldPop
Third party (User) data access
Data exports from partners
Design Specifications
N/A
Technical Support
N/A
Replacement Components
N/A
Lifecycle
N/A
Manufacturer Specified Performance Parameters
Flowminder's goal is to provide analysis to help identify distributions, migrations and characteristics of vulnerable populations. They provide this analysis to policy makers to enable them make policy decisions with the proper data to make a proper decision.
Vetted Performance Status
Notable models that have been developed using data from Flowminder include a model to project disease outbreak risk based upon anonymous cellular data analysis1, a model to predict climate change related migration patterns in Bangledesh2, and a model to analyze poverty in low and middle income countries utilizing satellite and cellular data3
Safety
N/A
Complementary Technical Systems
Statistical analysis software (Stata, R, etc.) GIS software (OpenStreetMap, GeoNode, ArcGis, etc.)
Academic Research and References
Bengtsson, L., et al., Using Mobile Phone Data to Predict the Spatial Spread of Cholera. Scientific Reports. Published: March 9, 2015. doi: doi:10.1038/srep08923
Lu, X., et al., Unveiling Hidden Migration and Mobility Patterns in Climate Stressed Regions: A Longitudinal Study of Six Million Anonymous Mobile Phone Users in Bangladesh. Global Environment Change, 2016. doi:
Steele, J.E., et al., Mapping poverty using mobile phone and satellite data. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. Published: February 1, 2017. doi: 10.1098/rsif.2016.0690
Since 2009 Flowminder has had 79 publications in peer reviewed journals.
“Where We Work: Discover Where We’re Making an Impact.” n.d. Flowminder.Org. Accessed June 20, 2024. https://www.flowminder.org/where-we-work
“Competitive landscape – Center for Global Development.” n.d. Center For Global Development. Accessed June 20, 2024. https://www.cgdev.org/
“Competitive landscape – AidData — A Research Lab at William & Mary.” n.d. Aiddata.Org. Accessed June 20, 2024. https://www.aiddata.org/
“Our People.” n.d. Flowminder.Org. Accessed June 20, 2024. https://www.flowminder.org/about-us/our-people
“Flowminder Website Privacy and Cookie Notices.” n.d. Flowminder.Org. Accessed June 20, 2024. https://www.flowminder.org/privacy
“#flowminder – Search / X.” n.d. X (Formerly Twitter). Accessed June 20, 2024. https://x.com/hashtag/flowminder
“Flowminder (Inactive).” n.d. Humdata.Org. Accessed June 20, 2024. https://data.humdata.org/organization/flowminder?ext_archived=1
Compliance with regulations
N/A
Evaluation methods
Peer reviewed data collection and analysis.
Other Information
None.
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