Using Real-Time Data to Create Smarter, More Responsive Aid

USAID paired social media with official statistics on food price inflation and applied the results to its developmental work. The current information enabled it to form a new digital picture of financial inclusion.

In this era of unprecedented connectivity, the private sector is exceling in the use of digital data to better understand its customers. There is opportunity for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and other organizations involved in international development to bet