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Datafest Africa22 Report
Datafest Africa; Pollicy (2022), 18 pp.
"DataFest Africa is an annual event that seeks to celebrate data use in the region by bringing together a variety of stakeholders of diverse backgrounds such as government, civil society, academics, students and private industry experts under one roof and theme. Since 2019, Pollicy, with support fro
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Harnessing the Potential of Big Data in Post-Pandemic Southeast Asia
Manila: Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2022), 44 pp.
"This publication is the last of four reports from a regional study completed in 2021 and funded by the technical assistance of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on Policy Advice for COVID-19 Economic Recovery in Southeast Asia. The project supports the recovery efforts of Southeast Asian countries t
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Mapping the Public Voice for Development: Natural Language Processing of Social Media Text Data
Manila: Asian Development Bank (ADB) (2022), xi, 114 pp.
"This report aims to introduce techniques and procedures of NLP (Natural Language Processing), the computational preparation and analysis of text data, to map the public voice and aid development. First, the report introduces essential concepts of communication and elaborates on the theoretical foun
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New Perspectives in Critical Data Studies: The Ambivalences of Data Power
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2022), xxv, 473 pp.
"This Open Access book examines the ambivalences of data power. Firstly, the ambivalences between global infrastructures and local invisibilities challenge the grand narrative of the ephemeral nature of a global data infrastructure. They make visible local working and living conditions, and the reso
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Datafication, Power and Control in Development: A Historical Perspective on the Perils and Longevity of Data
Progress in Development Studies, volume 22, issue 4 (2022), pp. 352-373
"The collection, processing, storage and circulation of data are fundamental element of contemporary societies. While the positivistic literature on ‘data revolution’ finds it essential for improving development delivery, critical data studies stress the threats of datafication. In this article,
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Access Rules: Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future
Oakland, Cal.: University of California Press (2022), 209 pp.
"Access Rules mounts a strong and hopeful argument for how informational tools at present in the hands of a few could instead become empowering machines for everyone. By forcing data-hoarding companies to open access to their data, we can reinvigorate both our economy and our society. Authors Viktor
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Data sovereignty in agricultural value chains
Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2022), 50 pp.
¿Cómo investigar contratación pública en Ecuador? Guía práctica para periodistas
Quito: Periodistas Sin Cadenas (2022), 37 pp.
"La contratación pública es uno de los temas que puede resultar más complicado para los periodistas, pero no imposible. Las reglas que rodean este ámbito son complejas, incluso para los funcionarios públicos. Los documentos generalmente son difíciles de entender y, en Ecuador, muchas veces has
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Data Ethics Guidebook: Cultivating an Ethical Mindset in Research & Evaluation
Oakland, Cal.: Informing Change (2022), 37 pp.
"New data sources related to socio-economic development should improve journalistic reporting. Still, despite an abundance of open data in Kyrgyzstan, journalists may face delays in getting quick access to important datasets. Goal: To facilitate the access to development-related information for jour
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Better Data Visualizations: A Guide for Scholars, Researchers, and Wonks
New York: Columbia University Press (2021), xi, 449 pp.
"This book details essential strategies to create more effective data visualizations. Jonathan Schwabish walks readers through the steps of creating better graphs and how to move beyond simple line, bar, and pie charts. Through more than five hundred examples, he demonstrates the do's and don'ts of
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Private Daten: Unsere Spuren in der digitalen Welt
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2021), 107 pp.
"Jeder von uns hinterlässt Datenspuren, beim Surfen, Onlineshopping und in den Social Media. Es sind der Staat, die Wirtschaft, aber auch Kriminelle, die Zugang zu diesen Daten haben oder sich zu verschaffen wissen. Dieser Sachverhalt hat große Bedeutung für den Einzelnen, aber auch für die demo
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Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook
Key Guides
Washington, DC: World Bank (2021), xviii, 209 pp.
"Development Research in Practice: The DIME Analytics Data Handbook is intended to teach all users of development data how to handle data effectively, efficiently, and ethically. An empirical revolution has changed the face of development research over the last decade. Increasingly, researchers are
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Data for Better Lives
Deep Insights
Washington, DC: World Bank (2021), xviii, 326 pp.
"This report aims to answer two fundamental questions. First, how can data better advance development objectives? Second, what kind of data governance arrangements are needed to support the generation and use of data in a safe, ethical, and secure way while also delivering value equitably? One impor
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Exposed and Exploited: Data Protection in the Middle East and North Africa
Access Now (2021), 45 pp.
"In this report, we highlight how privacy and data protection violations by state and non-state actors are compounded by the lack of legal data protection safeguards which would obligate public entities, private companies, and international organizations to respect and adhere to data protection prin
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The Data Journalism Handbook: Towards a Critical Data Practice
Key Guides
Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press (2021), 415 pp.
"The Data Journalism Handbook provides a rich and panoramic introduction to data journalism, combining both critical reflection and practical insight. It offers a diverse collection of perspectives on how data journalism is done around the world and the broader consequences of datafication in the ne
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DPPD Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide for Development Practitioners to Apply the Data Powered Positive Deviance Method
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2021), 138 pp.
"Positive Deviance (PD) is based on the observation that in every community or organization, there are a few individuals who achieve significantly better outcomes than their peers, despite having similar challenges and resources. These individuals are referred to as positive deviants, and adopting t
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"This Information Sharing Protocol (ISP) is designed to support data responsibility in Somalia. Data responsibility in humanitarian action is the safe, ethical and effective management of personal and non-personal data for operational response, in accordance with established frameworks for personal
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