On the research for big data uses for public good purposes
In the last few years, many of our habits have changed due to the rise of big data and of all the services providing information updated in real time, based on data produced by the crowd of users. This big data revolution has also brought new opportunities for private companies, but also for governm...
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| description | In the last few years, many of our habits have changed due to the rise of big data and of all the services providing information updated in real time, based on data produced by the crowd of users. This big data revolution has also brought new opportunities for private companies, but also for governments and researchers, as the potential applications are numerous. In this article, we review some of the advances made in this field, and present opportunities offered by big data for public good, in fields such as help for humanitarian action or natural disasters response, indicating that in some cases, data may be used to save lives. Finally, aside from the opportunities, the mass production and use of data has also brought many challenges, such as evaluating the representativity of the data or handling threats to the privacy of users, that we will discuss in the last section of this article. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-b11e9a2c14ed4e25b83828b407b04e9a2025-01-30T11:01:06ZengNetcom AssociationNetcom0987-60142431-210X2016-12-013030531410.4000/netcom.2556On the research for big data uses for public good purposesAdeline DecuyperIn the last few years, many of our habits have changed due to the rise of big data and of all the services providing information updated in real time, based on data produced by the crowd of users. This big data revolution has also brought new opportunities for private companies, but also for governments and researchers, as the potential applications are numerous. In this article, we review some of the advances made in this field, and present opportunities offered by big data for public good, in fields such as help for humanitarian action or natural disasters response, indicating that in some cases, data may be used to save lives. Finally, aside from the opportunities, the mass production and use of data has also brought many challenges, such as evaluating the representativity of the data or handling threats to the privacy of users, that we will discuss in the last section of this article.https://journals.openedition.org/netcom/2556big datadata for developmentmobile phone data |
| spellingShingle | Adeline Decuyper On the research for big data uses for public good purposes Netcom big data data for development mobile phone data |
| title | On the research for big data uses for public good purposes |
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| title_short | On the research for big data uses for public good purposes |
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| topic | big data data for development mobile phone data |
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