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Subject
Use of 'big data' for welfare projects.
Significance
Development actors within and outside the government are harnessing ‘big data’ for welfare projects but they face multiple challenges.
Impacts
Development projects will continue to rely heavily on mobile phone data.
Traditional on-the-ground data gathering and surveys remain important.
More advanced uses of big data require greater coordination between owners of individual tranches of information.
Keywords:
International,
INT,
United Nations,
politics,
social,
computers,
telecommunications,
welfare
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2019
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