OII | Symposium on Big Data and Human Development | Sept 15-16 2016

Published on
31 Aug 2016

Written by
Mark Graham

This workshop aims to move forward the debate about the ways in which big data is used, can be used, and should be used in development.

This symposium will also serve as a bridge between methodological knowledge about big data, critical academic research on the topic, and the desires of stakeholders and practitioners to achieve key developmental outcomes and goals.

This conference will use the hashtag #datahumdev

With keynotes by:

Professor Bitange Ndemo, Former Permanent Secretary of Kenya’s Ministry of Information and Communication, and Lecturer at the University of Nairobi
Professor Alex (Sandy) Pentland, Academic Director of Data-Pop Alliance, and Director of the MIT Human Dynamics Lab
Dr Linnet Taylor, Assistant Professor in Data Ethics, Law & Policy, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology and Society (TILT)

Organizers:

Mark Graham
Eduardo Lopez
Christopher Dobyns

Programme

Thursday 15 September
Start	End	Schedule
12:30	13:00	Registration
13:00	13:15	Welcome & Opening Remarks Professor Mark Graham, University of Oxford Professor Eduardo Lopez, University of Oxford
13:15	14:15	Keynote Dr. Bitange Ndemo, Former Permanent Secretary of Kenya’s Ministry of Information and Communication and University of Nairobi Business School
14:15	14:45	Coffee Break
14:45	15:15	Professor Richard Heeks, University of Manchester
15:15	15:45	Professor Dorothea Kleine, Royal Holloway University of London
15:45	17:45	‘Health and Big Data’ Speakers TBC

Friday 16 September
Start	End	Schedule
09:00	10:00	Keynote Professor Linnet Taylor, Tilburg University
10:00	10:30	Coffee Break
10:30	11:30	Parallel Session A (Lecture Theatre 04)Title TBC Dr. Nuria Oliver, Telefónica “The Diffusion of Ultrasound Technology and Missing Women: An Analysis based on Google Searches for India” Professor Francesco Billari, University of Oxford
10:30	11:30	Parallel Session B (Seminar Room)“Exploring the Potential of Open Data and Aid Transparency for Development” Dr. Elise Dufief, Publish What You Fund “Building the Online Labour Index” Dr. Otto Kassi, University of Oxford “Emergency Event Detection Using Mobile Phone Data” Didem Gundogdu, University of Trento
11:30	12:30	Parallel Session A (Lecture Theatre 04)“The Economic Geography of the Internet 2.0: Digital Social Capital and Cities.” Dr. Emmanouil Tranos, University of Birmingham “Data, Visualisation and Human Development” Dr. Joanna Boehnert and Doug Specht, University of Westminster “Measuring the Hidden Contours of the Global Knowledge Economy with Big Data” Sanna Ojanpera, University of Oxford
11:30	12:30	Parallel Session B (Seminar Room)“The Making of Beneficiaries: On the Datification of Anti-Poverty Programmes” Dr. Silvia Masiero, University of Loughborough “Big data for development research in the Global South: Experiential lessons from LIRNEasia” Prof. Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNEasia “Combining Big and Traditional Data Sources to Enhance Public Policy Decision Making for Sustainable Development” Dr. Jonggun Lee, Pulse Lab Jakarta – United Nations Global Pulse
12:30	13:30	Lunch (provided)
13:30	14:30	Keynote Professor Sandy Pentland, MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics Lab
14:30	15:30	Parallel Session A ( Lecture Theatre 04)“Algovernance: Can Open Algorithms Revive Democratic Principles and Processes?” Dr. Emmanuel Letouzé, Data-Pop Alliance “Digging into big data and development: Findings from three Indian cases” Dr. Chris Foster, University of Sheffield
14:30	15:30	Parallel Session B (Seminar Room)“Using IATI Data in “big data for human development” Research” Rolf Kleef, International Development “Big Data and Development: the Role of Competition Law and Policy” Kelvin Kwok, University of Hong Kong Title TBC Gerson Bergeth, DFID
15:30	15:50	Coffee Break
15:50	16:50	Panel & Keynote Peter Tufano, University of Oxford Professor Helen Margetts, University of Oxford Dr. Bitange Ndemo, Former Permanent Secretary of Kenya’s Ministry of Information and Communication and University of Nairobi Business School Professor Sandy Pentland, MIT Connection Science and Human Dynamics Lab Professor Linnet Taylor, Tilburg University
16:50	17:00	Closing Remarks

Author

Professor Mark Graham

Professor of Internet Geography

Mark Graham is an economic geographer. His research focuses on digital labour, the gig economy, and digital inequalities. He is the author, most recently, of The Gig Economy: A Critical Introduction.

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