Miscellaneous

  • AI and Statistics for the SDGs, Data Feminism, Geographies of Inequalities, Just Digital Transformations, Resilient Livelihoods and Ecosystems, Technology and Democracy

Links We Like: A Compilation of 40 Editions

Links We Like Turns 40! Technically, Links We Like (LWL) has been around for seven years, and in that time we have produced 40 editions, all of which are compiled here in a downloadable PDF form. LWL began in 2015...

  • AI and Statistics for the SDGs

Applications and Implications of Big Data for Demo-Economic Analysis:The Case of Call-Detail Records

This dissertation analyzes and discusses various applications and implications of BigData for demo-economic analysis, focusing on the analysis of cell-phone data collected by telecommunication operators for billing purposes, commonly referred to as call-detail records, or CDRs, which include the time...

  • Just Digital Transformations

Group Privacy in the Age of Big Data

This paper attempts to define what is a group and what is privacy in order to determine how a privacy right might attach to groups distinctly from the individual privacy rights of its members, and what might be the content...

  • Just Digital Transformations

Quantifying the Data Deluge and the Data Drought

This paper investigates how the world’s Big Data capacity can be understood in terms of the world’s storage capacity and the telecommunication capacity to access this storage (‘the cloud’). This paper follows the methodology of what has become the standard...

  • AI and Statistics for the SDGs

Big Data & SDGs Note for Global Sustainable Development Report

This paper focuses on the intersection of Big Data and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the spectrum of ways and channels through which Big Data as an entirely new ecosystem could impact—contribute to or hamper—human progress as called for and...

  • Resilient Livelihoods and Ecosystems

Eradicating Global Poverty: A Noble Goal, but How do We Measure It?

All agree that eradicating absolute poverty should remain at the forefront of a new goal on poverty, but opinions differ as to what constitutes extreme poverty and how we should measure it. Proposals to broaden the definition of poverty include...