2019

  • Just Digital Transformations

Principes et options pour une stratégie et plan d’actions « données pour le développement » au Togo

Cette Note de Cadrage fait partie de l’assistance technique fournie par le bureau pays du du PNUD (Programme des Nations Unies pour le développement) Togo (CO) par Data-Pop Alliance (DPA) dans ses efforts pour promouvoir la bonne utilisation des données...

  • Resilient Livelihoods and Ecosystems

Sharing is Caring: Four Key Requirements for Sustainable Private Data Sharing and Use for Public Good

How data are shared and used will determine, to a large extent, the future of democracy and human progress. In this context, the authors of the paper “Sharing is Caring” describe four key requirements that must inform European efforts to...

  • Data Feminism, Resilient Livelihoods and Ecosystems

Women in the gig economy: Paid work, care and flexibility in Kenya and South Africa

This report presents findings from an in-depth study of women’s engagement in the gig economy in Kenya and South Africa, two middle-income countries at the forefront of developments in digitally mediated work in sub-Saharan Africa. It aims to understand the...

  • AI and Statistics for the SDGs

EmpoderaData: Data Literacy Assessment and Sustainable Development Goals Data Gaps

EmpoderaData builds upon the success of the Q-Step paid internship programme from the University of Manchester. The project aims to promote a virtuous cycle of social transformation by fostering data literacy. The purpose of this report is threefold: (1) understand...

  • Just Digital Transformations

Big Data para o bem comum

Desde o início do século XX, a maioria de nossas ações e interações tem sido mediada e capturada por dispositivos eletrônicos. Os rastros de dados deixados pelo caminho resultam no que foi batizado de big data. Embora a exploração do...

  • Just Digital Transformations

Harnessing Innovative Data and Technology to Measure Development Effectiveness

In this study, the authors discuss and show how new kinds of digital data and analytics methods and tools falling under the umbrella term of Big Data, including Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, can help measure development effectiveness. Selected case studies...

  • Just Digital Transformations

Big Data to Address Global Development Challenges (Paper Series)

These 4 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. The aim was to strengthen the evidence-base for...

  • Geographies of Inequalities

Book Chapter: “Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios”

This book summarizes the most important findings of the Data for Refugees (D4R) Challenge, which was a non-profit project initiated to improve the conditions of the Syrian refugees in Turkey by providing a database for the scientific community to enable...