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Data-Pop Alliance Director Emmanuel Letouzé: Nov. 19th 7:30pm Making Data Matter Human AI for Development

November 9, 2020 by

Please join us in welcoming Data Pop Alliance co-founder Dr. Emmanuel Letouzé for a presentation and discussion how Big Data can be used to promote inclusive and sustainable economic development; for example, to monitor global inequalities and envision corrective actions. The Data Pop Alliance founding members include the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Connection Science, and London’s Alliance, and the group is currently working on Colombia’s National Big Data  ODI and Sweden’s Flowminder Foundation, the Data Pop Strategy or OPAL* with UN ESCWA in Lebanon, with Oxfam Mexico on Gender Violence and on the Global South COVID Recovery Plan (see the C-19 Global South Observatory), and on the Global South Response  and Recovery Vision and Action Plan from UN DESA. In addition to Dr. Letouzé, Fordham’s Computer Science Department will be present to discuss a new CISC-ECON course, Data for Development: OPAL or Open Access Algorithms for Better Decisions. If you have any questions, please contact research and teaching assistant Jeffrey Yozwiak at jyozwiak@fordham.edu or CIPS/Economics faculty member Darryl McLeod at mcleod@fordham.edu. To attend, you will need to register in advance at the link below.

https://fordham.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEpfuGtqzgqGdJJfjR0lly6Db4iimbCmgNa

To learn more about the Data-Pop Alliance’s work combatting global inequalities, click here:

Inequalities and Discriminations

Filed Under: Conferences, Development, Partners, Research, spotlight, Uncategorized

NY Times Reporter Eduardo Porter on How Racial Hostility Destroyed America’s Promise; Thursday, Oct 29th, 11:30 AM (check here for zoom link)

October 10, 2020 by

Author American Poison:

Filed Under: Events, Migration, Partners, Research, spotlight

Hans Rosling: tribute to a consummate development professional

February 12, 2017 by

Less than a year after discovering a deadly cancer, Hans Rosling died in Sweden on February 7th, 2015 (as reported by Gapminder).  As a medical doctor he never stopped working to improve public health in the poorest countries in Africa and Asia, most recently in Liberia during the 2015 Ebola outbreak.  Fortunately he went on to do much more, revolutionizing the education and presentation of data in our field. Among Hans Rosling many contribution the development field is free data from the International institutions which he “shamed” into making global data free and accessible (and to some extent “open source). Citing the U.S. Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) as the best data in the world, he argued passionately all international development data should be free and online. Once he had the data, Hans and his Gapminder NGO began explaining the transformation of our world that started in the 1990s, with the reversal of fortune which has brought China and South Asia back to center of the world stage emerging global power houses fitting their enormous populations and amazing history.  This was the beginning for Rosling’s attack on the obsolete and irrelevant developed vs. developing country world view, which he effectively argued is obsolete.  Combining income, fertility and child survival rates, he painted a data driven development vision of the world that integrated demography, economics and public health data.  Starting with a famous TED talk in 2006 Rosling eventually distilled his worldview in a series of provocative and entertaining videos (see a sample of favorites below). Longer specials included The Joy of Statistics and “Don’t Panic” are perfect for classes on methods or development. His most recent and now seminal “Don’t panic” documentary focuses on global population growth starting back in Dhaka and Maputo, starting of course in the hospitals he knew and in some cases helped establish.  He never stopped doing field work even as he came up with new passionate data arguments and ideas. Was Dr. Rosling’s first love public health in the poorest countries, teaching, communicating global data or helping students better understand the world (often by administering short pop quiz). Fortunately, the answer is all of the above.  Particularly remarkable and moving is his work during the Ebola crisis in Liberia, where he worked with Margaret Lamunu and Luke Bawo at the Liberian Ministry Health.  His 2015 fifteen minute presentation on the spread of Ebola is remarkable, as is the recent 25 minute post humus program done by the BBC’s More or Less group (see below).

Among Hans Rosling’s best videos (there are many):

Filed Under: Development, Research, spotlight

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