Data-Pop Alliance

Data-Pop Alliance is a non-profit think tank founded by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab and the Overseas Development Institute.[1][2][3] Emmanuel Letouzé is Director and Co-Founder and Alex Pentland is Academic Director.[4] Its research areas includes public policy,[5][6] inequality,[7] privacy,[8] crime,[9] climate change[10][11] and human rights.[12]

Data-Pop Alliance
Formation2014
TypeThink Tank
Location
  • New York City
Key people
Emmanuel Letouzé, Patrick Vinck, Alex "Sandy" Pentland
AffiliationsHarvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab, Overseas Development Institute, Flowminder
Websitehttp://datapopalliance.org/

Data-Pop Alliance is a partner for the United Nations Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the Sustainable Development Learning & Training Course Partnerships.[13] In addition, it is a partner of the United Nations System Staff College in the context of Agenda 2030.[14]

References
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  2. "Un think-tank pour mettre l'être humain au centre de la révolution du big data". Usine Digitale (in French). Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  3. Data-Driven Innovation: Big data for Growth and Well-being. OECD Publishing. 2015. p. 31. ISBN 9264229353.
  4. Lawson, Catherine. "WIRED2015: Alex 'Sandy' Pentland on taking action with big data". WIRED UK. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  5. "Data revolution: The role of private sector, citizens and government". Devex. 2016-07-11. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  6. "Off the map". The Economist. 2014-11-15. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  7. "Data for Development". Berkeley Social Science. 2015-04-23. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
  8. "Big Data: Key to the Future or the End of Privacy? - Vodafone Institute". Vodafone Institute. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
  9. Bogomolov, Andrey; Lepri, Bruno; Staiano, Jacopo; Letouzé, Emmanuel; Oliver, Nuria; Pianesi, Fabio; Pentland, Alex (2015-09-01). "Moves on the Street: Classifying Crime Hotspots Using Aggregated Anonymized Data on People Dynamics". Big Data. 3 (3): 148–158. doi:10.1089/big.2014.0054. ISSN 2167-647X. PMID 27442957.
  10. "Big Data Plays Surprising Role In Fight Against Climate Change - Dataconomy". Dataconomy. 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  11. "Fighting Climate Change: The Ultimate Data Challenge". The Huffington Post. 2015-12-21. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
  12. "AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition Meeting" (PDF). American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
  13. "Data-Pop Alliance - United Nations Partnerships for SDGs platform". sustainabledevelopment.un.org. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
  14. "UNSSC and Data-Pop Alliance partner to deliver learning initiatives on Big Data in the context of Agenda 2030". UNSSC | United Nations System Staff College. 2016-05-19. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
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