Translator Malian-French / Bambara / Fulani - Pulse Lab Kampala Tender, Uganda - 30924748

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Country : Uganda

Summary : Translator Malian-French / Bambara / Fulani - Pulse Lab Kampala

Deadline : 01 Mar 2019

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Notice Type : Tender

TOT Ref.No.: 30924748

Document Ref. No. : 53473

Competition : ICB

Financier : United Nations Secretariat

Purchaser Ownership : -

Tender Value : Refer Document

Purchaser's Detail

Purchaser : UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME (UNDP)
Phone: +256 417 112100/128/129 Fax: +256 414 344801
Uganda
Email :registry.ug@undp.org
URL :http://www.ug.undp.org

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UN Global Pulse (http://www.unglobalpulse.org/about-new) is an innovation initiative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Big Data. Its vision is a future in which big data is harnessed safely and responsibly as a public good. Its mission is to accelerate discovery, development and scaled adoption of big data innovation for sustainable development and humanitarian action. UN Global Pulse is building a catalytic network of in-country innovation centers, which will test new tools, data and analysis, share what lessons with the global community, mainstream successful approaches for real-time impact monitoring into policymaking. The first Lab has been established in New York (Pulse Lab New York) followed by Jakarta, Indonesia and Kampala, Uganda. Pulse Lab Kampala (http://www.unglobalpulse.org/kampala) is an inter-agency initiative of the United Nations in Uganda. The first of its kind in Africa, it brings together researchersfrom Government, the UN, non-governmental organizations and private sector to explore the utility of new sources of digital "Big Data" (such as social media, mobile data, online information) and real-time analysis techniques for social development monitoring and program planning.A data revolution is underway in Uganda and in Africa. There is more data now than ever.New technologies are leading to an exponential increase in the volume and types of data available, creating unprecedented possibilities for informing and transforming society and protecting the environment. There is more data produced in the last 2 years than in all of human history. There is a tremendous potential in new technology; indeed, this is the forefront of the data revolution already well underway in in the private sector. The new SDGs agenda will have increased demands and opportunities- for the use of data. Pulse Lab Kampala supports the UN Country team to tap into the revolution obtaining more and better data to support development work and humanitarian action suppor...

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