This post summarizes the UN Side Event at the 9th Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Data-Pop Alliance Director Emmanuel Letouzé to Deliver Keynote Speech at The Innovation Enterprise’s Big Data Innovation Summit in September
Emmanuel Letouzé, Director and co-Founder of Data-Pop Alliance, has been invited to speak about Data Literacy at The Innovation Enterprise’s Big Data Innovation Summit, which will take place on September 8-9 in Boston. The talk will highlight the importance of Data Literacy in leveraging and shaping the future of Big Data. See the full agenda here: https://theinnovationenterprise.com/summits/big-data-innovation-boston-2016/schedule
Watch and Listen: “Big Data for Climate Change and Disaster Resilience” Videos and Podcasts
This is a summary of a series of companion videos and podcasts that offer insights from the DfID synthesis report, “Big Data for Climate Change and Disaster Resilience.”
UN Side Event on Disability and Digital Societies
This is an update for our series of blog posts on our ongoing work exploring the applications and implications of Big Data and disability. As part of our investigation of how new data sources can contribute to various research areas related to disability, Data-Pop Alliance is pleased to announce their involvement in the UN Working Group on Disability and Digital Societies.
Markus Luczak-Roesch on Navigating a Heterogenous Data Landscape and Legislating for Big Data
This is the third podcast in a series of companion pieces that offer insights from the DfID synthesis report, “Big Data for Climate Change and Disaster Resilience.”
Marion Dumas on “Democratic Data,” Crowdsourcing, and Opportunities and Pitfalls of Big Data
This is the fourth podcast in a series of companion pieces that offer insights from the DfID synthesis report, “Big Data for Climate Change and Disaster Resilience.”
Patrick Vinck on Data Breadcrumbs Who Should Get Involved, and Kobo Toolbox
This is the first podcast in a series of companion pieces that offer insights from the DfID synthesis report, “Big Data for Climate Change and Disaster Resilience.”
Frederike Otto & Mamun Rashid on CPDN, Climate Modeling, and Extreme Weather
This is the sixth podcast in a series of companion pieces that offer insights from the DfID synthesis report, “Big Data for Climate Change and Disaster Resilience.”
Serge Guillas on Tsunami Hazard Systems in India, Local Action, & Uncertainties
This is the seventh podcast in a series of companion pieces that offer insights from the DfID synthesis report, “Big Data for Climate Change and Disaster Resilience.”
Silke Roth on Crowdsourcing, Digital Inequalities, and Combining Cultural Knowledge with Big Data
This is the fifth podcast in a series of companion pieces that offer insights from the DfID synthesis report, “Big Data for Climate Change and Disaster Resilience.”
Mark Iliffe on Participatory Geography, Flood Mapping, & Private Enterprise vs. Government Action
This is the second podcast in a series of companion pieces that offer insights from the DfID synthesis report, “Big Data for Climate Change and Disaster Resilience.”
Urban Identity and the Fragility-Resilience Double Helix
This is the first in our series of blog posts on our ongoing work on urban fragility and resilience.
Taming the Data Storm to Shape a Human-Centered Data Revolution: Contextualizing and Announcing Digitising Europe’s Stakeholders’ Dialogues
While the Library of Alexandria was once believed to contain the sum of human knowledge around the third century B.C.E, it is now near impossible to quantify and increasingly difficult to store the volume of data generated by humans as a result of the advent of digital technologies and societies.