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Food Security and the Data Revolution: Mobile Monitoring on the Humanitarian Frontline

Food Security and the Data Revolution: Mobile Monitoring on the Humanitarian Frontline

Sep 1, 2016

Extracted Page: http://reliefweb.int/report/world/food-security-and-data-revolution-mobile-monitoring-humanitarian-frontline

This guest blog comes to us from Jean-Martin Bauer, Brittany Card, and Alice Clough with the World Food Program (WFP) food security analysis unit.

Obtaining real-time and actionable information on the needs of affected populations has long been a priority for humanitarians; so keeping up with new technologies that could improve existing data collection systems is also a necessity. Innovations such as mobile phones and the Internet have already profoundly changed the nature of humanitarian work. They are proving to be faster and cheaper than legacy information systems, increasing the amount of information that decision maker

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