Flowminder is a Swedish non-profit foundation with two branch offices, in the UK and Switzerland respectively.

Using mobile operator, geospatial and survey data, our focus is on improving the wellbeing of vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries. Flowminder provides information and capacity strengthening to governments, mobile network operators, national and international agencies and researchers in low- and middle-income countries for humanitarian and development purposes.
Flowminder is striving to create a world in which decisions that can improve the lives of vulnerable people are based on the most appropriate evidence.

Flowminder partners with decision makers and key stakeholders in national and international data systems to produce high-quality data, strengthen capacity, develop new methods and tools, and leverage non-traditional and novel data sources to deliver projects that improve the lives of vulnerable populations in low- and middle-income countries. 

Founded by Dr Linus Bengtsson, Dr Xin Lu, and Dr Erik Wetter in 2012, Flowminder aims to promote positive, global development by conducting scientific research, method development, capacity strengthening and operational work.

Flowminder has been founded and led by researchers who realised the potential of combining new types of data with statistically rigorous methods to improve the lives and wellbeing of the most vulnerable.