Data-Pop Alliance

Data-Pop Alliance

Formation	2014
Type	Think Tank
Location	New York City
Key people	Emmanuel Letouzé, Patrick Vinck, Alex "Sandy" Pentland
Affiliations	Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab, Overseas Development Institute, Flowminder
Website	http://datapopalliance.org/

Data-Pop Alliance is a non-profit think tank founded by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab and the Overseas Development Institute.^[1][2][3] Emmanuel Letouzé is Director and Co-Founder and Alex Pentland is Academic Director.^[4] Its research areas includes public policy,^[5][6] inequality,^[7] privacy,^[8] crime,^[9] climate change^[10][11] and human rights.^[12]

Data-Pop Alliance is a partner for the United Nations Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the Sustainable Development Learning & Training Course Partnerships.^[13] In addition, it is a partner of the United Nations System Staff College in the context of Agenda 2030.^[14]

References

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2. "Un think-tank pour mettre l'être humain au centre de la révolution du big data". Usine Digitale (in French). Retrieved 2016-11-16.
3. Data-Driven Innovation: Big data for Growth and Well-being. OECD Publishing. 2015. p. 31. ISBN 9264229353.
4. Lawson, Catherine. "WIRED2015: Alex 'Sandy' Pentland on taking action with big data". WIRED UK. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
5. "Data revolution: The role of private sector, citizens and government". Devex. 2016-07-11. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
6. "Off the map". The Economist. 2014-11-15. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
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9. Bogomolov, Andrey; Lepri, Bruno; Staiano, Jacopo; Letouzé, Emmanuel; Oliver, Nuria; Pianesi, Fabio; Pentland, Alex (2015-09-01). "Moves on the Street: Classifying Crime Hotspots Using Aggregated Anonymized Data on People Dynamics". Big Data. 3 (3): 148–158. doi:10.1089/big.2014.0054. ISSN 2167-647X. PMID 27442957.
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13. "Data-Pop Alliance - United Nations Partnerships for SDGs platform". sustainabledevelopment.un.org. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
14. "UNSSC and Data-Pop Alliance partner to deliver learning initiatives on Big Data in the context of Agenda 2030". UNSSC | United Nations System Staff College. 2016-05-19. Retrieved 2016-11-17.