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Mobile phone data for informing public health actions across the COVID-19 pandemic life cycle
The coronavirus 2019–2020 pandemic (COVID-19) poses unprecedented challenges for governments and societies...
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Using Misinformation as a Political Weapon: COVID-19 and Bolsonaro in Brazil
With over 30,000 confirmed cases, Brazil is currently the country most affected by COVID-19 in Latin...
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Socio-economic, built environment, and mobility conditions associated with crime: A study of multiple cities
Nowadays, 23% of the world population lives in multi-million cities. In these metropolises, criminal...
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Mobile phone data and COVID-19: Missing an opportunity?
This paper describes how mobile phone data can guide government and public health authorities in determining...
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Estrategia de Big Data para Colombia - Documentos de diagnóstico
Documento 1: Estado del arte y análisis comparativo de estrategias nacionales de Big Data Document 1:...
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The ABCDE of Big Data: Assessing Biases in Call-Detail Records for Development Estimates
CDRs (Call Detail Records) represent an important and largely untapped source of data for the developing...
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Leveraging Algorithms for Positive Disruption: On data, democracy, society and statistics
The main objective of this paper is to discuss whether and how the future of algorithms can be crafted...
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The Tyranny of Data? The Bright and Dark Sides of Data-Driven Decision-Making for Social Good
We focus our attention on social good decision-making algorithms, that is algorithms strongly influencing...
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Opportunities and Requirements for Leveraging Big Data for Official Statistics and the Sustainable Development Goals in Latin America
Este documento se realizó en el marco de un proyecto apoyado por el Banco Mundial e implementado por...
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Book chapter – "The Evaluation of Complex Development Interventions in the Age of Big Data
Recognizing that complexity calls for innovative, conceptual, and methodological solutions, this unique...
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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...
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Big Data for Climate Change Resilience
This paper (in progress) outlines the Data–Pop Alliance’s ongoing research on Big Data, climate change...
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Event Paper – "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...
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Beyond Data Literacy: Reinventing Community Engagement and Empowerment in the Age of Data
This paper attempts to delineate the broad contours of “data literacy” through analysis of its history,...
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Big Data for Climate Change and Disaster Resilience: Realising the Benefits for Developing Countries
This report explores the opportunities, challenges and required steps for leveraging this new ecosystem...
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Moves on the Street: Classifying Crime Hotspots Using Aggregated Anonymized Data on People Dynamics
This paper highlights the potential societal benefits derived from big data applications with a focus...
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