├── .gitignore ├── CNAME ├── README.md ├── css ├── footer.css ├── loader.css └── main.css ├── data └── acclab_data_innovation.csv ├── favicon.ico ├── imgs ├── branding │ ├── UNDP_Acc_Labs_All_Partners_horiz_white.png │ ├── UNDP_accelerator_labs_logo_vertical_color_RGB.png │ └── UNDP_accelerator_labs_logo_vertical_white.png ├── map │ ├── ai_intervention_areas.ai │ └── ai_intervention_areas.svg └── stats │ ├── area.png │ ├── data_and_applications.png │ ├── data_and_applications.svg │ ├── data_and_applications_colors.png │ ├── data_and_applications_colors.svg │ ├── data_and_applications_colors_dark.png │ ├── data_and_applications_colors_dark.svg │ ├── data_and_applications_colors_light.png │ ├── data_and_applications_colors_light.svg │ ├── datasources.png │ ├── sankey_20240402.png │ ├── sankey_20240402.svg │ └── technique.png ├── index.html ├── js ├── Array.prototype.extensions.js ├── d3.prototype.extensions.js └── sankey.js ├── notebooks ├── .ipynb_checkpoints │ └── descriptive_analysis-checkpoint.ipynb └── descriptive_analysis.ipynb ├── requirements.txt └── signals.html /.gitignore: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | .DS_Store 2 | env/ 3 | imgs/stats/sankey_20240402_* 4 | *.ai 5 | imgs/solutions_mapped/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /CNAME: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | data-innovation.sdg-innovation-commons.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | # Mainstreaming data innovation through the UNDP Accelerator Labs Network 2 | 3 | - [Download the data](https://github.com/UNDP-Accelerator-Labs/AI-map/blob/main/data/acclab_data_innovation.csv) 4 | 5 |  6 | *Main data sources and application areas per lab* 7 | 8 | Over the past four years, the [UNDP Accelerator Labs Network](https://www.undp.org/acceleratorlabs) has been pushing for the mainstreaming of data innovation in sustainable development practice. Here we take stock of these efforts and highlight a certain convergence between computational techniques, datasources, and application areas. Note the work of the labs is action oriented. Other application areas and convergences undoubtably exist, typically in academic work. The purpose of this compilation is to highlight the application readiness of these techniques x datasources for specific development application areas around the world. 9 | 10 | The focus is intentionally reductive. It is on data innovation "projects". It should be noted however, that these are all part of broader portfolios of interventions. Overall, the UNDP Accelerator Labs Network sees data innovation a means to an end, not as an objective in itself. 11 | 12 | The next frontier for many of these projects is to establish data collaboratives to ensure their sustainability. More to come on this soon… 13 | 14 | ## Descriptive analysis 15 | 16 |
Computational technique | 20 |Main datasource | 21 |Area | 22 |Application | 23 |Lab | 24 |
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Feature detection | 29 |Drone imagery | 30 |Agriculture and pastoralism | 31 |Crop disease detection | 32 |Cameroon | 33 |
Cabo Verde | 36 |||||
Satellite imagery | 39 |Pollution and waste management | 40 |Dump site detection | 41 |Guatemala | 42 ||
Serbia | 45 |||||
Vietnam | 48 |||||
Plastic waste detection in river systems | 51 |The Philippines | 52 ||||
Brick kiln detection | 55 |India | 56 ||||
Environmental monitoring | 59 |Mine detection | 60 |Bolivia | 61 |||
Land cover and use classification | 64 |Satellite imagery | 65 |Agriculture and pastoralism | 66 |Detection of sustained grazing areas over time | 67 |Somalia | 68 |
Detection of sustained dry croplands over time | 71 |Niger | 72 ||||
Detection of forest boundaries over time | 75 |Ecuador | 76 ||||
Multilayer map generation | 79 |India | 80 ||||
Disaster risk management | 83 |Flood detection | 84 |Mauritania | 85 |||
Landslide detection | 88 |Kyrgyzstan | 89 ||||
Topic analysis and classification | 92 |Online reviews | 93 |Tourism | 94 |Topic analysis of toursit reviews | 95 |Jordan | 96 |
Sentiment analysis of tourist reviews | 99 |Malawi | 100 ||||
Tanzania | 103 |||||
Social media posts | 106 |Gender | 107 |Gender-related toxic speech detection | 108 |Kyrgyzstan | 109 ||
Uruguay | 112 |||||
Misinformation | 115 |116 | | Jordan | 117 |||
Generative AI | 120 |Pre-trained text model | 121 |Operations support | 122 |R script generation for simple, baseline data analyses and visualizations | 123 |Guatemala | 124 |
Education | 127 |Personalized ducational material generation | 128 |Cameroon | 129 |||
Pre-trained text model + political speeches | 132 |Democratic governance | 133 |Unified political speech generation | 134 |Argentina | 135 ||
Pre-trained image model | 138 |Gender | 139 |Analysis of gender stereotypes in STEM fields | 140 |Serbia | 141 ||
Pre-trained image model + urban and vegetation photos | 144 |Urban development | 145 |Green urbanism image generation during public consultations | 146 |North Macedonia | 147 ||
Causal analysis | 150 |LinkedIn profiles | 151 |Gender | 152 |Gender inequality in the workplace | 153 |Serbia | 154 |
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51 | Over the past four years, the UNDP Accelerator Labs Network has been pushing the mainstreaming of data innovation* inside and outside UNDP. Here, we take stock of these efforts, focusing specifically on work that leverages existing, third-party data, and includes some form of advanced computational technique—as opposed to work that focuses on more manual means of inputting and analyzing "new" data, like Collective Intelligence. The work is action oriented, rather than (solely) research oriented, meaning it is not focused on pushing the limits of data innovation, but rather on its integration into practice.
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54 | The interactive graphic below highlights exemplar applications from around the world. It is a living document, meaning we plan to update it regularly.
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57 | *We refer to data innovation as the use of unusual data sources and advanced computational techniques for sustainable development practice. We prefer the terms "unusual data sources" and "advanced computational techniques" over "big (or new) data" and "Artificial Intelligence (AI)", as we believe that the prior more adequately reflect the situated notions of resource and tool, while the latter are, in our opinion, generally confounded by the current hype around Generative AI. We see data innovation as a means to an end, not an end in itself. 58 |
59 |Hover over the diagram to highlight connections
78 |← Click on the Lab/Country to read more
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87 | The Accelerator Labs “work out loud”, meaning they continuously publish updates on their work, whether through blogs or action learning plans and reflections. Here, we sample 29 projects from 21 different Labs using these sources of information, looking for terms like “data innovation”, “unusual data”, “big data”, “data science”, “machine learning”, “artificial intelligence”, and “AI”.
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89 | We code each project as a geographically situated triptych of
91 | Read more about this work in our blog post: Dismantling the AI Monolith for Sustainable Development – Part 1: Observations on Our Use of Data and Computing
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93 | Find all source materials on Github.
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