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Who Builds, Who Bears: Gender, Design, and the Architecture of Technology-Facilitated Violence
The relationship between technology and society has never been one of passive adoption. Every technological object carries assumptions about...
Unevenly Distributed Resilience
This is the fourth 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 for disaster science and for building practical resilience.
Big Data and Disability, Part 1
This is the first in a series of blog posts on our ongoing work exploring the applications and implications of Big Data and disability. This serves as an initial scoping of how Big Data can contribute to various research areas related to disability. This will form the basis of a White Paper (forthcoming) exploring the ability of the Big Data ecosystem to monitor and understand the state of research about persons with disabilities and their environments.
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 for disaster science and for building practical 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.
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Job Opportunity – Fundraising and Partnerships Manager
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DPA at the International Policy Workshop for the World Development Report 2021
On June 9–10, 2020, our Director Emmanuel
CEGA + World Bank’s DIME Present the 6th Annual Measuring Development Conference
On Tuesday, March 31st, 2020, the Center
Big Data Paris 2020: A Gathering of Innovation / Big Data Paris 2020 : Un Rendez-Vous d’Innovation
Seminar on “Household Surveys in the Changing Data Landscape: Challenges, Opportunities and an Agenda for the Future”
As the data ecosystem continues to evolve,
Paper “Sharing is Caring: Four Key Requirements for Sustainable Private Data Sharing and Use for Public Good”
How can data be used for the benefit of society without violating privacy? A paper by Data-Pop Alliance and Vodafone Institute describes four requirements.