Data for Development: How You Can Help the UN Leverage Big Data for the Public Good

" ... The Unite Ideas crowdsourcing platform invites the global community of data scientists to partner with the United Nations to harness the power of data analytics and visualization to accelerate discovery and uncover new knowledge. To date, academia, the general public, and private companies have responded to our challenges with dozens of open source solutions, many of which will be used by the United Nations or shared with Member States. I believe the response shows that the concept works, that many people are keen to volunteer to help us solve challenges in this way, and that the results obtained are in fact useful ..."