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“Country policies on data need to be aligned with regional and continental policies. It’s a joint effort – I cannot stress that enough.” Talla Ndiaye, speaking at CAS 2024 ​ Tweet Data-Pop Alliance’s (DPA) Just Digital Transformations Program Director Talla...

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LINKS WE LIKE #43 Around the world, sports teams are always on the lookout for ways to improve their game and gain a competitive edge. Traditionally, coaches and players have relied on intuition, personal experience, and gut feelings to make...

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LINKS WE LIKE #39 Imagine being able to detect crime hotspots in your city, use facial recognition software to match camera footage from a robbery with a database of images, or even predict the likelihood of a crime (including time...

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LINKS WE LIKE #36 Accurate data is pivotal to identifying and responding to the needs of those impacted by a variety of shocks, including violent conflicts, environmental disasters, epidemics, and other life-threatening emergencies. By gathering and processing personal, public, and...

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Data Day(s) es un evento organizado por Software Guru que se ha realizado exitosamente de forma presencial desde 2015 hasta 2019, y de forma virtual desde el 2020. El evento reúne a todo tipo de participantes involucrados en el análisis,...

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Presentación Data-Pop Alliance (DPA), con el apoyo y patrocinio de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID ) a través del Centro de Formación de la Cooperación Española en Santa Cruz, Bolivia, (CFSCZ), ha creado el taller...

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“Leveraging Big Data Sources for Policy Evaluation and Analysis in Crisis Settings'', is a web platform for policymakers to draw insights to assist with crisis responses (including COVID-19)....
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DPA Director Emmanuel Letouzé delivered the keynote address at the virtual event Milwaukee Data Day on October 20, hosted by Data You Can Use, titled “Data as a Language, Lens and Lever for Social Change”. His address, building on the work...

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DISCUSSION PIECE (SPANISH) En la era del Internet y de los datos, las sociedades han modificado a tal grado sus formas de interacción, intercambio de información, generación de valor, entre otros tantos aspectos, que se requiere un nuevo “contrato social”...

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LINKS WE LIKE #27 One of the biggest promises of the “data age” is the creation of tools that will allow us to keep track and evaluate the performance of different projects and policies more efficiently. The main appeal of...

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LINKS WE LIKE #21 With the upcoming presidential election in the U.S., media outlets such as ABC News and The Economist, and even scholars like Alan L. Abramowitz, have searched for creative and insightful ways to use big data and...

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CEGA + World Bank’s DIME Present the 6th Annual Measuring Development Conference

On Tuesday, March 31st, 2020, the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) will partner with the World Bank’s Development Impact Evaluation (DIME) group and Innovations in Big Data Analytics to host the 6th annual “Measuring Development” Conference in Washington, D.C....

Conference “Measuring Development 2020 (VI): Data Integration and Data Fusion”

On Tuesday, March 31st, 2020, CEGA will partner with the World Bank’s ​Development Impact Evaluation​ (DIME)​ group and Innovations in Big Data Analytics​ to hold the 6th annual “Measuring Development” Conference in Washington, D.C. The event will showcase the myriad...

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Big Data Paris 2020: A Gathering of Innovation / Big Data Paris 2020 : Un Rendez-Vous d’Innovation

[ENGLISH VERSION] Important Update: Originally scheduled for March 9–10, the event has been rescheduled to May 27–28 due to precautions related to the coronavirus outbreak. Radical innovations, breakthrough technologies, 360° creativity—Big Data Paris 2020 promises to be bigger than ever....

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Data-Pop Alliance’s Intervention at the Third Annual Convention of the Platform for Big Data in Agriculture

Simone Sala, second from the right, with the fellow panelists Dharani Dhar Burra, Derval Usher, and Fred Pivetta (Photo: ThoughtFolks Media) On October 16-18 in Hyderabad, India, Data-Pop Alliance participated in the third annual Convention of the Platform for Big...

Taller “Big data, desarrollo sostenible y cambio climático” en Bogotá

Se abordarán términos claves, herramientas necesarias y desafíos en el panorama de Big Data y desarrollo sostenible, centrándose en la aplicabilidad de estas fuentes de información en proyectos relacionados con la adaptación y mitigación del cambio climático. Este taller presencial...

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Taller “Big data, desarrollo sostenible y cambio climático” en Bogotá

Se abordarán términos claves, herramientas necesarias y desafíos en el panorama de Big Data y desarrollo sostenible, centrándose en la aplicabilidad de estas fuentes de información en proyectos relacionados con la adaptación y mitigación del cambio climático. Este taller presencial...

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Innovations in Data Collection: DPA to Join IUSSP Expert Group Meeting

In recent years, data collection and analysis have undergone rapid transformation. While attention often focuses on Big Data sources—such as social media, credit card transactions, and mobile records—significant innovation has also taken place in more traditional, structured approaches, particularly through...

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Introducing the Complete Paper Series: “Big Data to Address Global Development Challenges”

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 research programme with Data-Pop Alliance and research partners titled “Strengthening the evidence-base for leveraging Big...

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DPA Opens its Latin American Office in Mexico City

We are excited to announce the opening of our Latin American Office based in Mexico City. Since its first steps, DPA has maintained and expanded its in-country presence in the region. Currently, we have team-cells in Colombia, Brazil, and Chile,...

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Partnership Announcement:Data-Pop Alliance and CIAT The CGIAR Platform for Big Data in Agriculture, led by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT), the world’s leading research consortium in agri-food systems, nutrition security, and the reduction of poverty, has partnered with...