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Data Collaboration for the Common Good. Enabling Trust and Innovation Through Public-Private Partnerships - Insight Report
Our open-sourced project OPAL is cited as a platform created "to serve
as a decentralized means of accessing private-sector data globally."
April 2019 | Wold Economic Forum
Nos données peuvent-elles servir l'intérêt général?
De plus en plus de voix s'élèvent pour demander que les données collectées par les entreprises privées soient mises au service de la collectivité.
January 2019 | Jaques Henno | Les Echos
Q&A: Big Data to help society when it’s industrialised
November 2018 | Anita Makri | SciDevNet
What leaders can learn from Facebook's data debacle
April 2018 | Ama Marston | CNN
UN Launches Initiatives to Unleash Big Data for Sustainable Development
Announcement of the launch of a training program with UNSSC and Data-Pop Alliance, a partnership of the UNSD and Esri, and DPA's 12-point plan on privacy and governance
January 2018 | Delia Paul |
The International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)
Mettre le Big Data privé au service du bien public
Le projet Open Algorithm vise à utiliser les données d'entreprises privées pour des actions de développement.
December 2016 | Benoît Gorges | Les Echos
Building Literacy for the Data Generation
Emmanuel Letouzé talks the 'data generation', digital trends, data literacy, and how "one need not become a 'data scientist' to have a voice in the age of data.
December 2015 | The MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth
Another Side Of Big Data: Big Data For Social Good
September 2016 | Randy Bean | Forbes
Open algorithms: A new paradigm for using private data for social good
Few data collected are actually used to improve people's lives or in the design of better public policies. How can we turn this around, ensuring that information is used in a privacy-conscientious and inclusive way?
July 2016 | Emmanuel Letouzé and Thomas Roca | Devex
Alex 'Sandy' Pentland on taking action with big data
Alex "Sandy" Pentland, Academic Director for MIT Media Lab of Data-Pop Alliance, is a pioneer in organizational engineering, mobile information systems and computational social science.
October 2015 | Catherine Lawson | WIRED
Democratizing Big Data Starts with Dialogue: Q&A with Emmanuel Letouzé
The Data-Pop Alliance director and co-founder discusses how the understanding of the relationship between Big Data and human rights is evolving.
July 2015 | The MasterCard Center for Inclusive Growth
Big data to create new ecosystem of decision-makers
Big data is not data, but rather a new ecosystem with a variety of stakeholders, skill sets and mentalities — one with the potential to fundamentally change societies much in same the way the Internet has, according to Emmanuel Letouzé, director and co-founder of Data-Pop Alliance.
May 2015 | Kelli Rogers | Devex
Emmanuel Letouzé, Data-Pop Alliance on Big Data and Human Rights – A Complex Affair
We discuss the founding story of Data-Pop Alliance, the applications and implications of Big Data on Human Rights and the need for penetration of Data Literacy.
April 2015 | Anmol Rajpurohit | KDnuggets
Data for Development
UC Berkeley demographer (and cartoonist) Emmanuel Letouzé seeks to reduce the gap in statistical data available about populations in developing nations.
April 2015 | Joy Neumeyer | Berkeley Social Matrix
Off the map
Rich countries are deluged with data; developing ones are suffering from drought.
November 2014 | The Economist
Cell-Phone Data Might Help Predict Ebola’s Spread
Mobility data from an African mobile-phone carrier could help researchers recommend where to focus health-care efforts.
August 2014 | David Talbot | MIT Technology Review
How Big Data can Transform Society for the Better
The digital traces we leave behind each day reveal more about us than we know. This could become a privacy nightmare—or it could be the foundation of a healthier, more prosperous world.
October 2013 | Alex Pentland | Scientific American
Reinventing society in the wake of big data
With Big Data we can now begin to actually look at the details of social interaction and how those play out, and are no longer limited to averages like market indices or election results.
2012 | Edge