Calling all researchers! “Data for Development” – an unprecedented open data challenge led by global telecommunications company France Telecom-Orange, in partnership with GSMA Development Fund, MIT MediaLab, University of Louvain (UCL), Université de Bouaké, the World Economic Forum and UN Global Pulse - is open for applications.
Orange will make 2.5B anonymized records of 5 million mobile...
A number of recently published studies and articles suggest that mining the Web may impact public health in ways that bear significance on Global Pulse’s approach to social impact monitoring in the digital age. Here is a recap of some of the most relevant studies and articles:
Syndromic Surveillance and More
One potential application is syndromic surveillance as part of an emerging field known...