Pioneer of the usage and analysis of mobile phone meta-data for development purposes, Flowminder is an award-winning, non-profit organisation funded by the UN Foundation, ECHO, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, DFID, EU, World Bank, IDB, WFP and others. Flowminder’s mission is to improve public health and welfare in low- and middle-income countries using data from mobile operators, satellite imagery and geo-located household surveys. Much of its work is focuses on understanding, monitoring and predicting the distributions, characteristics and dynamics of human populations, providing insights, tools and capacity building to governments, international agencies and NGOs. Previous works include support to the humanitarian community in multiple disaster response operations (the Haiti 2010 Earthquake, the Nepal Earthquake 2015 and Haiti Hurricane Matthew 2016) and during disease outbreaks (Haiti cholera, DRC Ebola), analysis of migration patterns and social networks to predict poverty, food insecurity and to gain a better understanding of human mobility in crisis. Partner of the WorldPop programme, Flowminder works together with researchers at the University of Southampton, developing and operationalising new approaches to solving developmental and humanitarian challenges.