Big Data and Positive Change in the Developing World

摘要: This paper is the product of a workshop that brought together practitioners, researchers, and data experts to discuss how big becoming resource for positive social change in low- middle-income countries (LMICs). We include our definition sources such as media data, mobile phone use records, digitally mediated transactions, online news sources, administrative records. argue there are four main areas where has potential promoting change: advocacy; analysis prediction; facilitating information exchange; accountability transparency. These all have particular challenges possibilities, but also issues shared across them, open privacy concerns. Big shaping up be one key battlefields time, argues this therefore an opportune moment civil society groups become larger part conversation about since questions asymmetries power involved especially urgent these uses LMICs. Civil currently underrepresented debates rights technology users, which dominated by corporations, governments nongovernmental organizations Global North. conclude offering some lessons drawn from number case studies represent current state-of-the-art.