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 the human rights situation in each UN member state. In this study, we hypothesize that leveraging text mining and machine-learning … Read More
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 public sector institutions on initiating big data-driven projects and promoting responsible use and governance of big data for public good. The … Read More
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 an official side event at the 9th Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons … Read More
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.
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, and in broad terms, the collision and intersection of these two hot topics in the public development discourse—has received significant … Read More