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 design applications that will help you make data-informed choices.

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We can support you with

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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08 Apr 2021

COVID-19: Supporting the Government of Namibia with mobility data

Produced by Flowminder Foundation / GRID3, MTC Namibia, Namibia Statistics Agency. December 2020.
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15 Jan 2021

COVID-19: Supporting the Government of Sierra Leone with mobility data

Produced by Sierra Leone's Directorate of Science, Technology and Innovation (DSTI); Flowminder Foundation / GRID3; Africell Sierra Leone; MIT GovLab; MIT Civic Data Design Lab. December 2020.

CEDIL Methods Working Papers: Using big data for evaluating development outcomes: a systematic map

05 Jan 2021
CEDIL Methods Working Paper. Oxford: Centre of Excellence for Development Impact and Learning (CEDIL).

Gridded Population Survey Sampling: A Review of the Field and Strategic Research Agenda

25 Nov 2020
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COVID-19 | Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): Report, May 2020. Initial insights into the effect of mobility restrictions using anonymised and aggregated mobile phone data

25 Sep 2020
Produced by Flowminder & Vodacom Congo. PDF reports available in English & French.

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