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/
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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 the 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]

From 2014 to 2020, Data-Pop Alliance was hosted by ThoughtWorks in New York City.^[15] In 2018, it opened a regional office in Mexico City^[16] and in 2021, a regional office in Dakar, Senegal. Nuria Oliver serves as Data-Pop Alliance's Chief Data Scientist. Data-Pop Alliance currently operates projects in over 20 countries, with staff located in Latin America, the MENA region, and Europe.

References

^ Bean, Randy. "Another Side Of Big Data: Big Data For Social Good". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
^ "Un think-tank pour mettre l'être humain au centre de la révolution du big data". Usine Digitale (in French). Retrieved 2016-11-16.
^ Data-Driven Innovation: Big data for Growth and Well-being. OECD Publishing. 2015. p. 31. ISBN 9264229353.
^ Lawson, Catherine. "WIRED2015: Alex 'Sandy' Pentland on taking action with big data". WIRED UK. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
^ "Data revolution: The role of private sector, citizens and government". Devex. 2016-07-11. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
^ "Off the map". The Economist. 2014-11-15. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
^ "Data for Development". Berkeley Social Science. 2015-04-23. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
^ "Big Data: Key to the Future or the End of Privacy? - Vodafone Institute". Vodafone Institute. Archived from the original on 2016-11-18. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
^ 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.
^ "Big Data Plays Surprising Role In Fight Against Climate Change - Dataconomy". Dataconomy. 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
^ "Fighting Climate Change: The Ultimate Data Challenge". The Huffington Post. 2015-12-21. Retrieved 2016-11-16.
^ "AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition Meeting" (PDF). American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2016-11-18.
^ "Data-Pop Alliance - United Nations Partnerships for SDGs platform". sustainabledevelopment.un.org. Retrieved 2016-11-17.
^ "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.
^ "Data-Pop Alliance". School and college listings.
^ "DPA opens its Latin American Office in Mexico City". Data-Pop Alliance. 14 October 2019. Retrieved 6 July 2021.

[1] Bean, Randy. "Another Side Of Big Data: Big Data For Social Good". Forbes. Retrieved 2016-11-16.

[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.

[7] "Data for Development". Berkeley Social Science. 2015-04-23. Retrieved 2016-11-18.

[8] "Big Data: Key to the Future or the End of Privacy? - Vodafone Institute". Vodafone Institute. Archived from the original on 2016-11-18. Retrieved 2016-11-17.

[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.

[10] "Big Data Plays Surprising Role In Fight Against Climate Change - Dataconomy". Dataconomy. 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2016-11-16.

[11] "Fighting Climate Change: The Ultimate Data Challenge". The Huffington Post. 2015-12-21. Retrieved 2016-11-16.

[12] "AAAS Science and Human Rights Coalition Meeting" (PDF). American Association for the Advancement of Science. Retrieved 2016-11-18.

[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.

[15] "Data-Pop Alliance". School and college listings.

[16] "DPA opens its Latin American Office in Mexico City". Data-Pop Alliance. 14 October 2019. Retrieved 6 July 2021.

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