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Government data—such as data from censuses, surveys, civil registration, and administrative systems—continue to provide the foundation for critical disaster-related statistics. At the same time, new technologies and data sources produced by private entities...
Open data and open access are two important pillars of Open Science that promote making the entire scientific process more accessible and participatory by sharing research and data, and actively engaging with people outside the scientific community.
When COVID-19 hit the Gambia, the government was well-prepared to respond effectively. Thanks to a private-public sector project, anonymized big data from cellphone towers allowed policymakers to analyze migration patterns by tracking population...
Making informed policy decisions requires having access to high-quality data. However, the adoption of electronic data collection tools remains a challenge in many low-income countries. This blog showcases four constraints on implementing such methods.
Mobile phones generate a staggering amount of data, allowing researchers to address previously unanswerable questions, and answer existing questions with new depth and granularity. How are researchers making use of mobile data to...