The full collection of resources on what we are creating, testing and learning on our journey
The Returning Point aims to tap into the skills and resources of Serbia’s highly-skilled diaspora by helping individuals return and integrating them into the economy, as well as by building bridges for collaboration between expatriates abroad and institutions at home.
Drasko Draskovic gave a talk at DSC Europe 2022: “How Big Data Can Foster Development”
Human Development in Response to Demographic Change, UNDP & UNFPA 2022
A blog that captures learnings of the Depopulation Data Challenge winning solutions, by Drasko Draskovic and Vladimir Nikitovic
The Returning Point’s Mentorship Initiative aims to assist the Serbian diaspora in returning to Serbia through connecting them with successful returnees who volunteer their time to help others make a decision and assist with reintegration into local society.
Overview of the winning solutions of the Depopulation Data Challenge by Drasko Draskovic and Vladimir Nikitovic
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.
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]
On the occasion of the second birthday of UNDP Accelerator Lab in Serbia, we talked with the winning teams of 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.
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
Euronews article on depopulation, with video interviews with Depopulation Data Challenge winners and mentor (Serbian only)
RTS article with interviews with Depopulation Data Challenge winners and Irena Cerovic (Serbian only)
Euronews article about the winning solutions of the Depopulation Data Challenge (Serbian only)
