Red Hat Collaborates with UNICEF Innovation to Accelerate ‘Big Data’ for Social Good
School Mapping Project to help improve emergency preparedness and
children's lives around the world
SAN FRANCISCO – RED HAT SUMMIT 2018--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source
solutions, today announced its collaboration with UNICEF Innovation -
the group tasked with identifying, prototyping and scaling technologies
and practices that strengthen UNICEF’s work for children. During the
eight-week residency with Red Hat Open Innovation Labs, teams worked
together to improve the usability of the School Mapping Project tool to
support humanitarian research in real-time.
The collaboration focused on advancing the School Mapping Project,
including enhancements to Magicbox, a software platform that uses
real-time data from both public sources and private sector partners to
inform life-saving humanitarian responses to emergency situations. Using
high-resolution satellite imagery and applying data science tools, the
project is being developed with a view to mapping every school in the
world. The data is generated and visualized through an online platform
that can help identify where gaps and information needs are, serve as
evidence when advocating for connectivity and help national governments
optimize their education systems. Ultimately, it is designed to help
UNICEF Innovation make decisions more quickly, ease the integration of
new data, and improve emergency response and resilience against natural
disasters and crises.
Focused on using open
source solutions, UNICEF Innovation used several of Red Hat’s
technologies, including Red
Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Red
Hat Ansible Automation. UNICEF Innovation plans to use the insights
provided by Magicbox as the base layer for the School Mapping Project to
help identify and address connectivity and infrastructure gaps to
improve access to information and education.
Launched in 2016, Red Hat Open Innovation Labs helps customers integrate
people, methodology and technology to catalyze innovation and solve
business challenges in an accelerated fashion by working collaboratively
in an immersive, residency-oriented lab environment with Red Hat
experts. Through hands-on instruction, teams can also learn how to adopt
agile development methodologies, experience DevOps,
and get immediate and direct experience with open principles and open
culture that underlie many open source communities.
Supporting Quotes
Erica Kochi, co-founder, UNICEF
Innovation
“Our collaboration with Red Hat gave us invaluable
new insights into how we can use data science to more quickly and
proactively address global crises and risk prevention. By gaining these
critical insights into the needs of at-risk populations, we can make
more informed decisions about where to focus resources and how to
protect vulnerable children. This collaboration has moved our work
forward in these areas immensely -- and reaffirms our joint belief in
the power of open source tools to develop innovative solutions that
positively impact children.”
John Allessio, vice president, Global Services, Red Hat
“Working
alongside UNICEF to make their vision a reality, using DevOps
methodologies and open source technologies, shows the potential of open
source innovation. What is so exciting about Open Innovation Labs
residencies is that in a short time we can create a solution to solve an
organization’s issues. In our collaboration with UNICEF, we not only
developed a solution, but a solution that can positively impact children
around the world.”
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