Colombia
51.3
Population 2022 (Millions)
0.75
HDI Score
2021 (Max. 1)
70.1
SDG Score
2023
(Max. 100)
0.42
Gender Inequality
Index Score
(Max. 1)
48
Internet Inclusivity
Index 2022
(100 countries)
Overview
Projects
- Colombia, Kenya, Senegal, Thailand, Tunisia, USA
- 2016 - 2019
- AI and Statistics for the SDGs
- Partner(s): Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), Hewlett Packard, United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC)
Carried out in partnership with United Nations System Staff College (UNSSC), this series of courses aimed to help practitioners and policymakers develop and implement Big Data innovation projects, policies, and partnerships in support of sustainable development objectives. The content was structured into three main modules: contexts and concepts; methods and tools; and strategy and conception/ethics and engagement. The workshops were delivered in Cambridge at MIT (June 2016), Bogotá (December 2016), Nairobi (June 2017), Dakar (March 2018), Bangkok (March 2018), and the MIT Media Lab (October 2018). The same workshop was also conducted in Tunisia (April 2019) with support from UN Tunisie.
- Colombia, Dominican Republic, Honduras, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Uruguay
- March 2022 - December 2023
- Resilient Livelihoods and Ecosystems
- Partner(s): Inter-American Development Bank (Funder), Prosperia (Lead)
- Brazil, Colombia, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Mexico
- January - June 2019
- AI and Statistics for the SDGs
- Partner(s): University of Manchester (Funder)
EmpoderaData built upon the success of the “Quantitative Step” (Q-Step) program, which was developed as a strategic response to the shortage of quantitatively-skilled social science graduates in the United Kingdom. Together, University of Manchester and Data-Pop Alliance expanded upon the program’s excellent results, exploring this model in the Global South as the “EmpoderaData Project”. The project aimed to promote a virtuous cycle of social transformation by fostering data literacy skills applied to addressing our society’s most pressing issues within the framework of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
- Colombia, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Mexico, Namibia, Senegal, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA)
- 2016 - 2019
- Resilient Livelihoods and Ecosystems
- Partner(s): Agence Française de Développement - AFD (Funder), Cloud to Street, Flowminder, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab, Overseas Development Institute
Four research papers were developed in collaboration with and funded by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD) between 2016 and 2019 under a joint program with Data-Pop Alliance and research partners (Cloud to Street, Flowminder, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab, Overseas Development Institute) titled “Strengthening the evidence-base for leveraging Big Data to address global development challenges”. This research program and papers were designed with the following objectives and criteria in mind: to focus on various development challenges in different local contexts to ensure relevance; to work with trusted partners to ensure academic quality; and to both reflect and promote key determinants of sustainable development, including smoother, fairer, and safer access to data and stronger links between analysts, local decision-makers, and communities. Individually, these papers outlined specific cases and examples of how computational analysis of behavioral data (combined with other datasets) can paint a finer-grained, more complex, and dynamic picture of human reality than ‘traditional’ data allows. Collectively, they sketched the contours of a world where public decisions, in the form of policies and programs, might someday be designed, implemented, and evaluated using the best available data and approaches.
- Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Peru, Venezuela
- November 2018
- Just Digital Transformations
- Partner(s): Inter-American Development Bank (Funder)
This project aimed to support the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) in preparing for the IDB Andean Summit event held on November 29, 2018, in Quito, Ecuador. A study was generated that identified new Big Data tools being developed and/or used by academic institutions, international organizations, and the public or private sector that would concretely benefit current and future IDB projects. Based on DPA’s experience, the consultancy’s goal was to contribute to the IDB’s knowledge, identification, and capabilities regarding available technological tools that provided observable material improvements at different stages of current or future projects. The study focused on IDB projects in five countries in the region: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela.
- Brazil, Colombia, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC), Mexico
- June 2020 - February 2021
- Data Feminism
- Partner(s): GIZ (Funder), GIZ Data Lab, GIZ México, Unidas
This project, developed in partnership with UNIDAS and GIZ Data Lab, leveraged traditional and non-traditional data sources to assess the reporting capability of women and girls in Mexico City, Bogota and Sao Paulo. The analytical model estimated the probability of registering domestic violence at the locality or municipal level, taking into account personal (e.g. age, educational attainment) and environmental factors (e.g. access to support services, human mobility during the COVID-19 quarantine). The report for Mexico is not available.