Data-Pop Alliance Explained

Formation:2014
Type:Think Tank
Key People:Emmanuel Letouzé, Patrick Vinck, Alex "Sandy" Pentland
Affiliations:Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab, Overseas Development Institute, Flowminder
Data-Pop Alliance
Website:http://datapopalliance.org/
Location:New York City

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 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]

Notes and References

  1. News: Another Side Of Big Data: Big Data For Social Good. Bean. Randy. Forbes. 2016-11-16.
  2. News: Un think-tank pour mettre l'être humain au centre de la révolution du big data. Usine Digitale. fr-FR. 2016-11-16.
  3. Book: Data-Driven Innovation: Big data for Growth and Well-being. OECD Publishing. 2015. 9264229353. 31.
  4. News: WIRED2015: Alex 'Sandy' Pentland on taking action with big data. Lawson. Catherine. WIRED UK. en-GB. 2016-11-16.
  5. News: Data revolution: The role of private sector, citizens and government. 2016-07-11. Devex. en-US. 2016-11-16.
  6. News: Off the map. 2014-11-15. The Economist. 0013-0613. 2016-11-16.
  7. News: Data for Development. 2015-04-23. Berkeley Social Science. 2016-11-18.
  8. News: Big Data: Key to the Future or the End of Privacy? - Vodafone Institute. Vodafone Institute. en-US. 2016-11-17. 2016-11-18. https://web.archive.org/web/20161118040904/http://www.vodafone-institut.de/event/big-data-key-to-the-future-or-the-end-of-privacy/. dead.
  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. 10.1089/big.2014.0054. 2167-647X. 27442957.
  10. News: Big Data Plays Surprising Role In Fight Against Climate Change - Dataconomy. 2016-06-02. Dataconomy. en-US. 2016-11-16.
  11. Web site: Fighting Climate Change: The Ultimate Data Challenge. 2015-12-21. The Huffington Post. 2016-11-16.
  12. Web site: AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition Meeting. American Association for the Advancement of Science. 2016-11-18.
  13. Web site: Data-Pop Alliance - United Nations Partnerships for SDGs platform. sustainabledevelopment.un.org. EN. 2016-11-17.
  14. News: UNSSC and Data-Pop Alliance partner to deliver learning initiatives on Big Data in the context of Agenda 2030. 2016-05-19. UNSSC United Nations System Staff College. 2016-11-17.

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