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Human Development and the Data Revolution explores the uses of large-scale data in the contexts of development, in particular, what techniques, data sources, and possibilities exist for harnessing large datasets and new online data to address persistent concerns regarding human development, inequality, exclusion, and participation.
Table des matières
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- 1: Sanna Ojanperä, Eduardo López, and Mark Graham: Opportunities and Challenges of Data-driven Development
- 2: Nuria Oliver: Big Mobile Data for Social Good: Opportunities and Challenges
- 3: Bitange Ndemo: Digital Forms of Exclusion, Big Data, and Measurement of UN Sustainable Development Goals in Africa: An Ecological Systems Theory Perspective
- 4: Emmanuel Letouzé: Making Human Measurement Matter for Human Development: Towards a Theory of Change for the Data Revolution and "Human AI"
- 5: Christopher Njuguna and Patrick McSharry: Predicting Socioeconomic Status Using Big Data
- 6: Bruno Lepri, Nuria Oliver, and Alex Pentland: Reinventing the Social Contract in an Age of Big Data
- 7: Sriganesh Lokanathan, Thavisha Perera-Gomez, and Shazna Zuhyle: Leveraging Big Data for Public Purposes in the Global South: LIRNEasia's Experiences
- 8: Paula Hidalgo-Sanchis: Advancing Human Development with Artificial Intelligence: Experimental Work from Uganda
- 9: Vukosi Marivate and Nyalleng Moorosi: Extracting Insights in and around Government: Experiences in South Africa
- 10: Eduardo López and Sanna Ojanperä: Digital Data Handling: A Tutorial Approach
- 11: Eduardo López and Sanna Ojanperä: Sources of Big Data in Global Development
- 12: Eduardo López and Sanna Ojanperä: Methods for the Analysis of Big Data in Development
- 13: Richard Heeks: Data Justice for International Development: A Structural Model and Manifesto
- 14: Linnet Taylor: The Ethics of Big Data as a Public Good: Which Public? Whose Good?
A propos de l'auteur
Sanna Ojanperä is a quantitative researcher at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, and The Alan Turing Institute.
Eduardo López is Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies at the Department of Computational and Data Sciences, George Mason University.
Mark Graham is the Professor of Internet Geography at the Oxford Internet Institute.
Résumé
Human Development and the Data Revolution explores the uses of large-scale data in the contexts of development, in particular, what techniques, data sources, and possibilities exist for harnessing large datasets and new online data to address persistent concerns regarding human development, inequality, exclusion, and participation.
