How alternative data can shed a new light on depopulation in Serbia
A blog that captures learnings of the Depopulation Data Challenge winning solutions, by Drasko Draskovic and Vladimir Nikitovic
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The winning solutions to the “Depopulation Data Challenge” – Population (Scientific Journal), Vol 59 No 2 (2021)
Overview of the winning solutions of the Depopulation Data Challenge by Drasko Draskovic and Vladimir Nikitovic
How Social Networks Can Track Migration – SDG Knowledge Hub, UN World Data Forum 2021
Following the UN World Data Forum 2021, the SDG Knowledge Hub wrote a story about our Forum submission, that illustrates data as a tool for social impact.
Serbia Brain Drain Regain story (The Globalist podcast on Monocle 24)
Drasko spoke to the Globalist on Monocle24 about our work on depopulation in Serbia and how we’ve been using big data to track the flow of migration before and during the pandemic. [starts at 28:25]
Depopulation Portfolio
Faced with one of the most rapidly declining populations in the world, Serbia needs to redefine what it takes to be a thriving, productive society. We bring a new framing to depopulation, one of the most significant global trends of the future.
SME Resilience
Supporting growth of SMEs that are future-proof and more resilient to shocks in the future.
Depopulation Data Challenge Winners
On the occasion of the second birthday of UNDP Accelerator Lab in Serbia, we talked with the winning teams of Depopulation Data Challenge.
Future of Work
We explore opportunities and threats, as well as solutions from local contexts to ensure that humans stay at the centre of the work revolution.
Circular Migration
We are exploring how to rebuild trust and develop innovative ways to bridging Serbian society at home and abroad. We work with the Returning Point to co-create solutions that accelerate new links with Serbia’s diaspora.
Digital Nomads
We are investigating the value that digital nomads and other types of digital professionals bring to the development of a place, and testing how to maximize it.
Depopulation Data Challenge
As an example of collective intelligence in action, we established new partnerships that leveraged alternative data sources – such as mobile data, social networks data, job ads data, satellite data – to shine a new light on the complex challenge of depopulation in Serbia.
Vlog: Cross border coworking conference: “How digital nomads see the region”
Vlog on the panel at the Cross border coworking conference: “How digital nomads see the region” moderated by Kristina Jazinka Nikolic (Head of Experimentation)
Cross border coworking conference: “How digital nomads see the region”
Kristina Jazinka Nikolic (Head of Experimentation) as the moderator at the regional panel “How digital nomads see the region”. The Conference brought together decision makers from the region’s countries, coworking space owners and managers, coworking space users, representatives from the business community, representatives from partner institutions, and digital nomads to share their experiences and recommendations
We know business as usual doesn’t work. But what does the alternative look like?
First in a three-part blog series explaining the portfolio approach as an instrument for system transformation, what it means and looks like in practice and how it differs from a traditional project approach. Based on an interview with Irena Cerovic (Head of Solutions mapping) as an early practitioner in UNDP
