January 4, 2020

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Data science for the most vulnerable at UNICEF Innovation

Data science for the most vulnerable at UNICEF Innovation

The growing availability of dataalong with advances in fields such as data science and artificial intelligencehas profoundly changed businesses. Manuel Garca-Herranz explains how to leverage these advances for the most vulnerable, while making sure that the existing data divide does not increase the gap in inequality, and integrate these advances into the humanitarian and development systems.
Talk Title Data science for the most vulnerable at UNICEF Innovation
Speakers Manuel García-Herranz (UNICEF Office of Innovation)
Conference Strata Data Conference
Conf Tag Make Data Work
Location New York, New York
Date September 26-28, 2017
URL Talk Page
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In a world more connected and digitalized than ever, the steadily growing availability of data—along with the advances in fields such as data science, complex systems, artificial intelligence, and computational sociology—has profoundly changed businesses such as marketing and advertising and revolutionized related areas such as political campaigns or governance. Manuel García-Herranz explains how to leverage these advances for the most vulnerable, while making sure that the existing data divide does not increase the gap in inequality, and integrate these advances into the humanitarian and development systems.

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