FEBRUARY 3RD to 5TH

BIG DATA NETWORKING WITH UNFPA FEBRUARY 5TH FROM 17:30 AT BETAHAUS BARCELONA

United Nations Population Fund

Tuesday 3 February: Discovering Big Data. Breakfast and Registration — {8am} Welcome — (Bruce Campbell) UNFPA Innovation Fund Opportunity for Innovation and Creativity — (Leslie Berman) Bootcamp Overview & Agenda — (Maggie, Rick & Pedro) Getting to know each other — (Rick Scavetta) Setting the Stage ~ Who we are and what we do: UNFPA Strategic Plan 2014 - 2017 — (Bruce Campbell) ~ Data for Sustainable Development — (Daniel Schensul) ~ Data Revolution, New Technologies and Big Data — (Sabrina Juran) Coffee Break Big Data Challenges ~ Data-Pop Alliance: The Why, What, Who and When of Big Data within the context of UNFPA’s work — (Emmanuel Letouzé) ~ United Nations Global Pulse: Applied Use of Big Data at the United Nations — (Miguel Luengo-Oroz ) ~ Paris21: Informing a Data Revolution / Capacity Assessment Official vs. Non-Official Data Sources — (Trevor Fletcher) Panel Discussion The role of official statistics in the era of Big Data — (Moderator: Emmanuel Letouzé, Panel Discussants: Pablo Salazar, Emilio Zagheni, Nuria Oliver) Access to Data, Opportunities ~ World Bank: Building a Big Data Capability at the World Bank Group — (Trevor Monroe) ~ Smart City Barcelona: Open Data - Smart Citizen Project — (Tomas Diez) Lunch — {13:30am} Case Studies – Use of Big Data to Inform UNFPA Priority Areas Each Session has 3 talks running in parallel. You may choose one Talk per session. Session 1: Orange and University College of London: Data for Development Challenge: Poverty Estimatesbased on Call Detail Records in Côte d’Ivoire —

(Nicholas de Cordes and Chris Smith Clarke) UN Global Pulse: Understanding the Post-2015 Development Agenda through Social Media — (René Clausen Nielsen) Telefonica: Study on H1N1 in Mexico, Prediction of SocioEconomic Levels and Distinguishing Gender using CDRs — (Nuria Oliver) Session 2: Flowminder: WorldPop, A Free Database of High-Resolution Maps of Populations Densities and Recent Work on Dynamic Population Mapping using Mobile Data — (Linus Bengtsson) University of Washington: Estimation of Population Density and Sample Bias Correction Methods — (Emilio Zagheni) Orange and Global Pulse: Data for Climate Action — (Nicolas de Cordes, René Clausen Nielsen) Session 3: Flowminder: Using Call Detail Records for Infectious Disease Prevention and Control, Focusing on Malaria, Cholera and Ebola — (Linus Bengtsson) UNFPA and UN Global Pulse: Social Media for UNFPA - Case of Family Planning Dashboard — (Charles Otine and René Clausen Nielsen) UNECE Project: The Role of Big Data in the Modernisation of Statistical Production — (Antonino Virgillito) Coffee Break The Multidisciplinary Dimension of Big Data ~ University of Washington: The Multidisciplinary Dimension of Big Data: The Blending of Social Sciences and Computer Science Methods — (Emilio Zagheni) ~ MIT Media Lab and Data-Pop Alliance: The Ins and Outs of Call Detail Records analytics from a technical perspective — (Yves-Alexandre de Montjoye) ~ Wolfram Alpha: 101 in Computational Knowledge — (Wolfram Alpha) Break Synthesis Closing — {17pm}

Tuesday 3 February: Designing solutions with Big Data.

Workgroups Redefined , continued Coffee Break

Kick-off Present the aims & program for the day — {9am} Collective BrainDump: What Big Data sources we know of? What projects we know of have been solved with Big Data? Workgroups ~ We will divide into 10 groups and work on different plausible scenarios for utilizing big data in the context of UNFPA’s work. Scenarios based on data sources: · Call detail records · Citizen reporting / crowd-sourcing · Financial transaction data · Online information · Physical sensors · Web search terms Scenarios based on UNFPA’s thematic areas: · Adolescents and youth · Gender, human rights, and culture · Humanitarian · Population and development · Sexual and reproductive health Coffee Break Workgroups Continue Workgroups Present Results The Big Data “3 Cs” — (Emmanuel Letouzé) Presenting a conceptual framework for UNFPA’s big data work according to the “3 Cs”: ~ Big Data Crumbs ~ Big Data Capacities ~ Big Data Community Workgroups Redefined Drawing upon the“3 Cs” framework, resume group work and re-imagine scenarios through this new lens. Participants select new groups, switching from a data source scenario to a thematic area scenario (and vice versa). Lunch — {13am}

“Workgroups Redefined” Present Results Synthesis Closing — {18pm}

Thursday 5 February: Defining The Future.

Coffee Break

Kick Off — {9am}

Presenting UNFPA Big Data Challenge results. Strategic Vision and Pilot Proposals

Playbook Workgroups Eight groups will be formed, and will work throughout the morning to develop recommendations for UNFPA’s Big Data Playbook, following the “data lifecycle”. Data Sourcing Data Capacities Data Partnerships Data Mining Data Analysis Data Dissemination Data Usage Impact on Public Policies Playbook Workgroups Participants work in subgroups to explore the aspects of Big Data and make recommendations about how to incorporate them in the UNFPA Big Data strategy. Coffee Break Presentation of Playbooks by Workgroups Each group presents their thinking and recommendations. Lunch — {13am} UNFPA Big Data Challenge Participants divide into three groups to synthesize work over the past three-days and develop a strategy, vision, and project prototypes for UNFPA’s work on big data. You might choose one of the following exercises. Synthesis of Strategic Vision This group will synthesize UNFPA's strategic vision for Big Data, in particular drawing upon the thematic and data source group work from Day 2, and Playbook recommendations from Day 3. Experiencing Data This group will immerse itself in the world of Big Data through a data experiment. Innovation Challenge This group will prototype innovative projects through which UNFPA can work with Big Data, which will subsequently be considered by the UNFPA Innovation Fund. Prototypes will draw upon the ideas generated throughout the Bootcamp.

Wrap up and close of Bootcamp — {17pm}

Big Data Networking with UNFPA at Betahaus Barcelona — {17:30pm} Presenting UNFPA Big Data Challenge results. Presentation of the data experience exercise to the guests and public.

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United Nations Population Fund