Simone Sala

Senior Advisor, ICT for Development

Simone Sala works at the intersection between digital technologies and sustainable development, with a focus on agriculture, natural resources, and climate change.

He has been the Associate Director of the Sensemaking Fellowship. He completed PostDoctoral research assignments at the Columbia University Center for International Conflict Resolution (CICR), at the University of Lugano (USI) NewMinE Lab, and the Faculty of Agriculture of the University of Milan. He graduated in computer science from the University of Milan and holds a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Agriculture of the same University. His research interests include the role of Big Data to promote farmer-centered agricultural development.

He has been working as an advisor for governmental and non-governmental organizations in 20 countries in Europe, the Caribbean region, Central & South America, Near East, South Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

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We now find ourselves on the verge of the next “agricultural revolution”, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and agriculture coming together. In this edition of Links We Like, we explore the effects that this linkage will create....
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Data-Pop Alliance’s Intervention at the Third Annual Convention of the Platform for Big Data in Agriculture

Simone Sala, second from the right, with the fellow panelists Dharani Dhar Burra, Derval Usher, and Fred Pivetta (Photo: ThoughtFolks Media) On October 16-18 in Hyderabad, India, Data-Pop Alliance participated in the third annual Convention of the Platform for Big...

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Leveraging the Crowd: How People can Contribute to Disaster Management

This is the third in a series of companion pieces that offer insights from the synthesis report. The authors of the series attempt to go “beyond the buzz” to lay out what we actually know about Big Data’s existing utility...
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Using Big Data to Detect and Predict Natural Hazards Better and Faster: Lessons Learned with Hurricanes, Earthquakes, Floods

This is the first in a series of companion pieces that offer insights from a synthesis report evaluating the opportunities, challenges and required steps for leveraging the new ecosystem of Big Data and its potential applications and implications for climate...