We provide flexible solutions tailored to your needs to support your development and humanitarian interventions.

We work with de-identified mobile operator data, satellite and household survey data to support your needs for data-driven insights.

With a strong grounding in the development and humanitarian sectors and a decade of experience in working with private data providers, we provide solutions backed by in-house research published in top academic journals.

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Our Services

Mobile Data Partnerships

Helping mobile operators help others

Mobile data partnerships

Data Science & Analysis

Discover our methods & analytical services, backed by scientific excellence and innovation

Data science & analysis

Data Applications

Turning data into applications for sustainable development is a key priority to achieve our mission.

Data Applications

Capacity Strengthening

Strengthening capacities in the use of mobility and geospatial data for decision making

Capacity Strengthening
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Satellite imagery - Haiti?

The example from Haiti demonstrates how mobile data analysis could revolutionise disaster and emergency responses.

— World Economic Forum (2011) Big Data, Big Impact: New Possibilities For International Development, p.5

Case Study

Integrating mobile operator data into official statistics in Ghana

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Publications

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19 Jul 2021

Radio Transmitter Coverage in Sierra Leone

Produced by Flowminder under the GRID3 programme, in collaboration with Sierra Leone's Ministry of Basic and Senior Secondary Education (MBSSE). July 2021
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06 Jul 2021

Eruption of Mount Nyiragongo: Estimating population displacement using mobile operator data (Call Detail Records)

Produced by Flowminder & Vodacom RDC, June 21. Reports available in French and English

Analysis of call detail records to inform the COVID-19 response in Ghana—opportunities and challenges

26 Jun 2021
Cambridge University Press: 23 June 2021.

Guide for developing socioeconomic maps: High-resolution spatial modelling of population welfare in El Salvador, a coding tutorial.

24 Jun 2021
Produced by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) & Flowminder Foundation, 2021.

COVID-19 | Ghana: Report #3: Insight into the effect of mobility restrictions in Ghana using anonymised and aggregated mobile phone data

27 Apr 2021
Produced by Flowminder, Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) & Vodafone Ghana. COVID-19 | Ghana: Report #3, April 2021

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