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Using wearable proximity sensors to characterize social contact patterns in a village of rural Malawi
Laura Ozella, Daniela Paolotti, Guilherme Lichand +5
Measuring close proximity interactions between individuals can provide key information on social contacts in human communities. With the present study, we report the quantitative a…
An individual-level ground truth dataset for home location detection
Luca Pappalardo, Leo Ferres, Manuel Sacasa +2
Home detection, assigning a phone device to its home antenna, is a ubiquitous part of most studies in the literature on mobile phone data. Despite its widespread use, home detectio…
Young Adult Unemployment Through the Lens of Social Media: Italy as a case study
Alessandra Urbinati, Kyriaki Kalimeri, Andrea Bonanomi +3
Youth unemployment rates are still in alerting levels for many countries, among which Italy. Direct consequences include poverty, social exclusion, and criminal behaviours, while n…
Decentralized Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing
Carmela Troncoso, Mathias Payer, Jean-Pierre Hubaux +31
This document describes and analyzes a system for secure and privacy-preserving proximity tracing at large scale. This system, referred to as DP3T, provides a technological foundat…
Give more data, awareness and control to individual citizens, and they will help COVID-19 containment
Mirco Nanni, Gennady Andrienko, Albert-László Barabási +36
The rapid dynamics of COVID-19 calls for quick and effective tracking of virus transmission chains and early detection of outbreaks, especially in the phase 2 of the pandemic, when…
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…