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Innovative data refers to new forms of data generated from non-traditional sources, such as internet, Mobile Network Operators, social media platforms.
They can offer timely information complementing official statistics and can be used in forecasting, now-casting and scenario-building activities.
Subtopics:
- Use of timely Big data to complement official statistics
- Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
- Ethics and privacy issues on the use of big data containing personal data
- Human mobility
- Public-private partnership, data 4 good
- Migration now-casting and forecasting
To develop methodologies for the responsible and ethical use of innovative data sources to inform migration and demographic policies.
- Research and development of state-of-the-art methods for improving migration and demographic data using innovative data sources.
- Development of Visualization platforms to facilitate discovery and access and analysis of migration and demographic data.
- International collaborations to foster the responsible and ethical use of innovative data sources to inform migration and demographic policies.
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Originally published | 06 May 2021 | 20 Jun 2021 |
Knowledge service | Metadata | Migration and Demography |
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