Welcome to NiFi! We’re a team of public interest technologists with a passion for sustainable investing and technology-driven empowerment across Africa and other emerging markets. We believe investments that center the voices and narratives of citizens - innovators, tinkerers and entrepreneurs - create thriving, innovation-filled markets. The quantitative frameworks we’ve cultivated - pulling from disciplines in product development, algorithmic learning and systems architecting - allow us to seamlessly weave advanced research methods into real business solutions.
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We look forward to collaborating with you!
Welcome to NiFi!
We’re a team of public interest technologists with a passion for sustainable investing and technology-driven empowerment across emerging markets. We believe investments that center the voices and narratives of citizens – innovators, tinkerers and entrepreneurs – create thriving, innovation-filled markets. The quantitative frameworks we’ve cultivated – pulling from disciplines in product development, algorithmic learning and systems architecting – allow us to seamlessly weave advanced research methods into real business solutions.
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We look forward to collaborating with you!
Practice Areas
Organizations looking to apply technology solutions to build strong communities should do so using context-aware methods. What’s more, the downside risks of not doing so are multiplied under the constraints of the digital economy. ‘More’ digital assets – including data pipelines, user profiles & mobile applications – are not always better if they cannot be used to clarify how effectively a product or service strategy is performing.
At NiFi, we believe that the breadth of disciplines we’re able to call upon equip us to tackle even the thorniest analytic problems. We offer solutions across a number of topic area domains including:
Systems Engineering
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Survey methodology & field experiment design
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Data pipelines & ETL orchestration (via developer tools)
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AI-complemented cloud & compute architecture specification
Advanced Analytics
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Impact & causal analysis methods
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GIS / spatial analysis
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Applied Machine Learning (ML) & forecasting​
Advisory & Services
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Market studies & value-chain analysis
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Quality of Service (QoS) evaluation
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Data governance & workflow management solutions​
Case Studies
DIGITAL SKILLING
Strong communities invest effectively in public education infrastructure; it is a critical benchmark of development. Students, educators, administrators, policy managers, parents & youth advocates must work to define coherent & context-aware education pathways that empower all learners. NiFi has developed a planning framework that benchmarks key education indicators for organizations looking to measure curriculum performance in the global information economy. Indices include:
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per-pupil analysis schemas; distribution of annual transfers & capitalization
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enrollment distribution analysis
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GIS mappings & utilization projections
SECTOR FORECASTING
Measuring the economic performance of sub-regional geographies is a non-trivial task – one made more difficult due to the relative lack of robust administrative data in-region, particularly in emerging markets. We designed an n-period GDP forecast to clarify the policy & investment framework policy influencers might use to bolster sustained growth. Some levers embedded in the model include:
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- inflation-adjusted, estimator imputation
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sector-level disaggregation & sub-forecasting
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modular model deployment & specification​​
APPLIED ANALYTICS
Obtaining a clear understanding of a community’s intersectional demography is a necessary - though insufficient - milestone for any organization looking to catalyze investment & development. (e.g. What’s the addressable population for my service?) Our demography tools are built on first-principles and include:
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regional & intersectional analyses of urban agglomerations in emerging markets
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population distribution visualizations
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descriptive & prescriptive models of market size & talent pool
About Us
We’re a team of data practitioners, consultants, project managers and business analysts with interdisciplinary expertise in economic analysis, demography & product design. At NiFi, it’s our mission to intersect best-in-class applied research methodologies with superbly designed technology systems in service of public investment in all communities.
Our practice areas include:
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Systems Engineering, Architecting & Integration
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Product Design
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Contract Management Solutions
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Survey Methodology & Field Experiment Design
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Sustainability & Resiliency