Activities

Activities

Mining Case Law to Improve Countries’ Accountability To Universal Periodic Review

1 CKM ADVISORS; 2 ICAAD; 3 DATA POP ALLIANCE; 4 GLOBAL INSIGHT. Please send any comments to contact@datapopalliance.org. The United Nations (UN) Universal Periodic Review (UPR) is a process established by the Human Rights Council aiming to monitor and improve...

Working Paper: Spurring Big Data-Driven Innovation and Promoting Responsible Data Governance in a Privacy-Centred Europe

Through a series of regional stakeholder dialogues and debates in Berlin, Brussels and Madrid, the digitising europe initiative – organised by Data-Pop Alliance and the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications – aims to provide insights for European companies and...

How can digital information contribute to achieving the SDGs for persons with disabilities?

Co-founded by the Secretariat for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Data-Pop Alliance, the UN Working Group on Disability and Digital Societies will present a draft of a White Paper on Disability and Digital Societies at...

“Oportunidades y requerimientos para aprovechar el uso de Big Data para las estadísticas oficiales y los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible en América Latina”

The English version of this paper is available here. Este documento se realizó en el marco de un proyecto apoyado por el Banco Mundial e implementado por Data-Pop Alliance en asociación con el Departamento Administrativo Nacional de Estadística de Colombia—DANE....

Leveraging Algorithms for Positive Disruption: On data, democracy, society and statistics

This is a working paper prepared for and presented at the Data Associations in Global Law & Policy: A Workshop for New Writing held on Friday 11 December – Saturday 12 December, 2015 at UNSW Australia, Sydney.

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Big Data and Privacy: Understanding the Possibilities and Pitfalls of the Data Revolution in Germany

As the first event paper in the digitising Europe’s series, this event paper captures the major key themes emerging from our events in Berlin in November 2015. The Berlin workshop and public forum focused on the possibilities and pitfalls of...

“Opportunities and Requirements for Leveraging Big Data for Official Statistics and the Sustainable Development Goals in Latin America”

The Spanish version of this paper is available here. This White Paper was written by Julia Manske (Co-lead author), David Sangokoya (Co-lead author), Gabriel Pestre and Emmanuel Letouzé, with contributions from Lauren Barrett, Natalie Shoup, and Andrés Clavijo. It was...

“Group Privacy in the Age of Big Data”

This is a chapter, authored by Lanah Kammourieh, Thomas Baar, Jos Berens, Emmanuel Letouzé, Julia Manske, John Palmer, and Patrick Vinck, which will be part of a book edited by Linnet Taylor and Luciano Floridi. A recent presentation on the...

Entering the Age of Data: A Focus on Data Inclusion

“Entering the Age of Data: A Focus on Data Inclusion” is the second video in our new series on Big Data and development. Literacy is a deeply political question. As explored by our experts, becoming literate means being able to...

Climate Change Resilience in the Age of Data

#COP21Data Data-Pop Alliance, Agence française de développement (AFD), and the UK’s Department for International Development (DfID) are co-organizing a COP21 side event, Climate Change Resilience in the Age of Data: Opportunities, Challenges, and Requirements on December 4th, from 08:30 to...

What is Data Literacy?

“What is Data Literacy?” is the first video in our new series on Big Data and development. In under two minutes, Cartoonist Manu takes us through a short history of what literacy is and was from the early 1800s through...

“Beyond Data Literacy: Reinventing Community Engagement and Empowerment in the Age of Data”

This White Paper was written by Rahul Bhargava, Erica Deahl, Emmanuel Letouzé, Amanda Noonan, David Sangokoya, and Natalie Shoup, in collaboration with Internews Center for Innovation and Learning and the MIT Media Lab Center for Civic Media. It was launched...

“Quantifying the Data Deluge and the Data Drought”

This Technical Note was written by Martin Hilbert. Funding for this paper was generously provided by the World Bank. Data-Pop Alliance is currently developing this note as one of the three inputs for the World Bank’s 2016 World Development Report:...

Strengthening Capacity in Developing Countries: It’s time to get it right!

PARIS21, with the support of Data-Pop Alliance and other organizations, hosted this event in September 2015. Despite some progress over the last 15 years and increasing attention and recognition, the question on how to best build national capacity in terms...

digitising europe initiative 2015

#digitisingEU Data-Pop Alliance and the Vodafone Institute for Society and Communications are partnering to organize a European-wide series of stakeholders’ dialogues on the ethics of Big Data over the next 6 months in major European cities. Our Academic Director, Alex...

Beyond Data Literacy Workshop

Data-Pop Alliance hosted a Workshop at the 70th Session of the United Nations General Assembly in September 2015 . The Workshop, which included a White Paper Launch, was organized and funded by Data-Pop Alliance and Internews’ Center for Innovation &...

“Big Data and Mobility: Migration and Transportation”

This Primer was written by Emmanuel Letouzé in partnership with and funded by the World Bank Leadership, Learning and Innovation Group. This primer (forthcoming) discusses the linkages between Big Data and mobility—specifically migration and transportation. Its main objective is to...

“Could Cell-Phone Data Analytics Help Poverty and Population Analysis?”

This Empirical Paper was written by Emmanuel Letouzé, Espen Beer Prydz, Emma Samman, and Emilio Zagheni. Funding for this paper was generously provided by the Agence Française de Développement (AFD). Socio-economic and demographic data even on such basic indicators as...

“Big Data for Climate Change and Disaster Resilience: Realising the Benefits for Developing Countries”

This White Paper was written by a team of lead coauthors and contributors under the umbrella of Data-Pop Alliance, including Jesse Anttila-Hughes and Marc Levy as lead co-authors and Marion Dumas, Lindsey Jones, Gabriel Pestre, Yue Qiu, Emmanuel Letouzé, Simone...

PeaceHack Barcelona

International Alert, with partnership from Data-Pop Alliance, hosted this event in September 2015. #peacehack, an initiative by International Alert, convenes technologists, designers, developers and peace practitioners to formulate ideas and solutions for identifying and stopping violent conflict in order build...

“Correcting for Sample Bias with Application to the Case of Senegal”

This Methodological Note was written by Emmanuel Letouzé, Gabriel Pestre, and Emilio Zagheni. Funding for this paper was generously provided by the World Bank Group. Data-Pop Alliance is currently developing this note as one of the three inputs for the...

Build Peace 2015

Data-Pop Alliance organized a session a session on “Peace Data Analysis” at the second annual Build Peace conference hosted this past April in Nicosia, Cyprus. Build Peace, a global community and annual conference, convenes technologists, activists, and practitioners to use...

"Big Data for Climate Change Resilience"

United Nations Sustainable Development Training: Modeling Flooding Vulnerability

Data-Pop Alliance authored a training module that launched as Learning Session for the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development in June 2015 in New York City. This training addresses the use of data in modeling, mapping, and monitoring vulnerability to...

Cartagena Data Festival

Data-Pop Alliance organized this event in April 2015 along with other partner organizations such as ODI, PARIS21, UNFPA, Africa Gathering, and many others. The Cartagena Data Festival was a three-day event in April 2015 that brought together more than 300...

“Moves on the Street: Classifying Crime Hotspots Using Aggregated Anonymized Data on People Dynamics”

This Empirical Paper was written by Andrey Bogomolov, Bruno Lepri, Jacopo Staiano, Emmanuel Letouzé, Nuria Oliver, Alex ‘Sandy’ Pentland, and Fabio Pianesi, in collaboration with the World Bank Group, BKF, and Telefónica. Using a multimodal, data-driven, and place-centric approach, researchers...

Big Data and Human Rights AAAS SRHRL Conference

The AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Sciences) Science and Human Rights Coalition organized a 2-day conference on ‘Big Data and Human Rights’ on January 15 and 16 in Washington DC, where Data-Pop Alliance’s co-founders Emmanuel Letouzé and Patrick...

Big Data for Peace Summer School at Leiden University

Data–Pop Alliance is official partner of the Big Data for Peace Summer School organized by the Center for Innovation’s Peace Informatics at Leiden University, in The Hague. The event took place in July 2015. The program of this 2nd edition...

“Big Data and Development: An Overview”

This White Paper was written by Emmanuel Letouzé in collaboration with SciDev.net and the World Bank Group. “Big Data and Development: An Overview” describes the fundamental nature of Big Data as an ecosystem and how it engages with society. The...

“The Law, Politics and Ethics of Cell Phone Data Analytics”

This paper is a Data-Pop Alliance White Paper. It was written by Emmanuel Letouzé and Patrick Vinck, in collaboration with the World Bank Group and the D4D team. “The Law, Politics and Ethics of Cell Phone Data Analytics” examines Call...

“Official Statistics, Big Data, and Human Development”

This White Paper was written by Johannes Jütting and Emmanuel Letouzé, in collaboration with PARIS21. The White Paper aims to contribute to the ongoing and future debate about the relationships between Big Data, official statistics and development—primarily by revisiting and...

Reflections on Big Data & the Sustainable Development Goals: Measuring & Achieving Development Progress in the Big Data Era

This Working Note was written by Emmanuel Letouzé and served as an input to the Big Data and SDGs Chapter of the 2015 Global Sustainable Development Report. Whether and how Big Data could loosely “contribute to the SDGs”—in other words,...

UNFPA Big Data Bootcamp

Data-Pop Alliance provided technical support to UNFPA’s Big Data Bootcamp that took place at Betahaus Barcelona in February 2015. The Bootcamp was structured around a series of presentations, group work, collective brainstorming sessions, and networking events, using a ‘design thinking’...