Thursday 15 - Friday 16 Sep 2016
Said Business School, Lecture Theatre 04
Oxford, UK
http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=786
To attend, please email your name and affiliation to events@oii.ox.ac.uk. Attending this
conference is free of charge. Please note space is limited and registration
preference will be given to contributors of selected abstracts.
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.
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, Fellow at the Department of International Development,
University of Amsterdam
Organizers:
Christopher Dobyns
Call for abstracts
We welcome the submission of abstracts (of max 250 words)
for talks, panels, and sessions at the workshop. Submit them to christopher.dobyns@oii.ox.ac.uk
by 15 July 2016.
Papers presented in the conference will be considered for an
edited volume in big data and human development.
Please contact Mark Graham (mark.graham@oii.ox.ac.uk)
with any questions.
The Oxford
Human Development and Big Data Incubator is working to stimulate
policy-oriented research. Topics that we seek to focus on in our workshop include
(but are not limited to):
What ‘big data’ can tell us about human development; how we
can facilitate better decision-making and accountability in previously
data-sparse environments;
- What presences and absences of data tell us about issues of participation and exclusion among marginalised populations;
- What tools have emerged globally that can maximise citizen ownership of big data, by making data meaningful within the cultures of participation that characterise different localities.
- Research results of projects employing big data in the contexts of development.
Submissions may include:
Talks: Contributors are invited to submit full-length talks
(15 min) related to the conference themes
Panels: Contributors are invited to pitch a panel discussion
on core conferences themes
Demonstrations: Contributors are invited to submit an idea
for a demonstration (which may be facilitated as part of a panel as a
stand-alone event)
