As Ebola ravaged Liberia, Unicef asked local residents to send text messages to update the humanitarian group on conditions in their neighborhoods. More than 30,000 people agreed to answer a few questions, and their responses formed a rich repository of information that helped not just Unicef but governments and nonprofits respond in real time to the health crisis.
The growing use of big data by humanitarian groups prompted Unicef and the Bloomberg media company to take a step to advance such work by creating a researcher-in-residence job at the group’s New York headquarters.
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