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Impossible by Conventional Means: Ten Years on from the DARPA Red Balloon Challenge
Alex Rutherford, Manuel Cebrian, Inho Hong +1
Ten years ago, DARPA launched the 'Network Challenge', more commonly known as the 'DARPA Red Balloon Challenge'. Ten red weather balloons were fixed at unknown locations in the US.…
China's First Workforce Skill Taxonomy
Weipan Xu, Xiaozhen Qin, Xun Li +5
China is the world's second largest economy. After four decades of economic miracles, China's economy is transitioning into an advanced, knowledge-based economy. Yet, we still lack…
Flooding through the lens of mobile phone activity
David Pastor-Escuredo, Alfredo Morales-Guzmán, Yolanda Torres-Fernández +10
Natural disasters affect hundreds of millions of people worldwide every year. Emergency response efforts depend upon the availability of timely information, such as information con…
Estimating Food Consumption and Poverty Indices with Mobile Phone Data
Adeline Decuyper, Alex Rutherford, Amit Wadhwa +5
Recent studies have shown the value of mobile phone data to tackle problems related to economic development and humanitarian action. In this research, we assess the suitability of…