GOL featured in Forbes magazine
Forget BLS. Here’s How To Take The Economy’s Temperature Without Using Government Data Read the full article here …Joshua Blumenstock, the Director of the Global Opportunity Lab and the co-Director of the Center for Effective Global Action at the University... Read More →
Feature article on GOL’s collaboration with Togo
Togo and UC Berkeley: A data science alliance to build a dynamic West African nation Forged in the crisis of COVID, a relationship between the small but innovative country and the Center for Effective Global Action has blossomed into a... Read More →
VoxDev article published
Our article was published on VoxDev, titled, “Measuring poverty using mobile phone data: Implications for targeting and impact evaluation.” Lead: In settings where reliable data on poverty is difficult to come by, non-traditional data sources such as mobile phone metadata... Read More →
Article on GOL’s Humanitarian work in Bangladesh
In Bangladesh, AI targeted aid faster, cheaper, and often more accurately than manual methods. Read the full article here: https://www.givedirectly.org/ai-targeting-bangladesh/
Two papers published in Journal of Development Economics
Two research papers written by lab members were published in the Journal of Development Economics. They both study the extent to which digital trace data can be used to in program monitoring and impact evaluation.
Best paper at CVPR EarthVision 2025
GOL fellow Ando Shah’s paper on foundation models for earth observation that can work with data from any satellite, wins best paper at the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) EarthVision (June 2025).
Constenla-Villoslada’s paper published in PNAS
Ph.D. student Susana Constenla-Villoslada is the lead author on a paper just published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Congrats Susana! Significance As the number and share of people suffering from food insecurity worldwide has risen over... Read More →
Google.org invests in GOL
GOL is proud to participate in Google.org’s AI Collaborative on Food Security
GOL partners with World Food Programme in Haiti
We are excited to launch a collaboration with the World Food Programme in Haiti, to test innovative approaches to humanitarian response during severe crises. Stay tuned for results!
Lab funded by Jameel Observatory
The Jameel Observatory has generously provided support for the Lab’s research on “Improved Early Warning of Food Insecurity”, led by PhD student Susana Constenla-Villoslada.