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Mobile phone data and COVID-19: Missing an opportunity?
Nuria Oliver, Emmanuel Letouzé, Harald Sterly +21
This paper describes how mobile phone data can guide government and public health authorities in determining the best course of action to control the COVID-19 pandemic and in asses…
Assessing Refugees' Integration via Spatio-temporal Similarities of Mobility and Calling Behaviors
Antonio L. Alfeo, Mario G. C. A. Cimino, Bruno Lepri +2
In Turkey the increasing tension, due to the presence of 3.4 million Syrian refugees, demands the formulation of effective integration policies. Moreover, their design requires too…
Data Cooperatives: Towards a Foundation for Decentralized Personal Data Management
Thomas Hardjono, Alex Pentland
Data cooperatives with fiduciary obligations to members provide a promising direction for the empowerment of individuals through their own personal data. A data cooperative can man…
The tradeoff between the utility and risk of location data and implications for public good
Dana Calacci, Alex Berke, Kent Larson +2
High-resolution individual geolocation data passively collected from mobile phones is increasingly sold in private markets and shared with researchers. This data poses significant…
Active Fairness in Algorithmic Decision Making
Alejandro Noriega-Campero, Michiel A. Bakker, Bernardo Garcia-Bulle +1
Society increasingly relies on machine learning models for automated decision making. Yet, efficiency gains from automation have come paired with concern for algorithmic discrimina…
Mapping the Privacy-Utility Tradeoff in Mobile Phone Data for Development
Alejandro Noriega-Campero, Alex Rutherford, Oren Lederman +2
Today's age of data holds high potential to enhance the way we pursue and monitor progress in the fields of development and humanitarian action. We study the relation between data…