WASHINGTON — The State Department is using a new internal advanced data and analytics platform to provide staff with current data about where conflict may erupt around the world.
Developed by the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations, the Instability Monitoring and Analysis Platform, or IMAP, gives the department centralized, direct access to conflict data it previously had to obtain from separate sources such as the intelligence community, academia, and think tanks.
“It was conceived in response to a perceived gap in the department: both a gap in having evidence-based analysis and analytics readily available throughout the department on conflict issues, and also a gap in having available quality data on conflict and crisis and situational awareness on conflict and crisis trends,” said Santiago Stocker, director of CSO’s Office of Advanced Analytics, which uses structured analytics to inform policy and programs on conflict and crisis issues.