Jeff Wilkinson has been based in UNHCR’s Aleppo office since October 2016. Prior to moving to Syria, he worked with UNHCR as Head of Field Office and in additional protection roles in Colombia, Ecuador, eastern Ukraine, as well as emergency missions to South Sudan and...
Data is important. Obviously. UNHCR sits on a data goldmine. Data is gathered, circulated, cleaned, analysed, continuously visualised, every second of every day, in emergencies, through to durable solutions. From registration, to financial verifications of partnership...
The Data Revolution is no longer a new topic but a reality trying to catch up with the expectations it has generated. The private sector is investing billions in new start-ups and technology companies that can ingest the vast amounts of data generated by citizens and...
Administration is probably the first contact point anyone has in the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). In reality, everything we do has a sort of administration process linked to it. When one of us joined UNHCR in November 2007, an era that was already embracing Facebook and...
From her office at UNHCR Headquarters in Geneva, Erica Bower keeps track of the wildfires ravaging Santa Rosa, California. For weeks it has destroyed homes and consumed possessions, forcing thousands to flee and taking the lives of dozens of people. Most scientists...
“Almost any question can be answered cheaply, quickly and finally, by a test campaign. And that’s the way to answer them – not by arguments around a table.” Claude Hopkins,“Scientific Advertising” (published in 1923) Experimentation is a crucial part of innovation,...
