Big data for development : from information- to knowledge societies

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2013-01

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The article reviews existing literature and related evidence to obtain a better understanding of the opportunities and challenges involved in making the Big Data Analysis paradigm work for development. All the well-known caveats of the Big Data debate, such as privacy concerns, interoperability challenges, and the almighty power of imperfect algorithms, are aggravated in developing countries by long-standing development challenges such as lack of technological infrastructure and economic and human resource scarcity. This has the potential to result in a new kind of digital divide: a divide in data-based knowledge to inform intelligent decision-making.

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BIG DATA, DEVELOPMENT, DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, ICT4D, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT), OPEN DEVELOPMENT, OPEN DATA FOR DEVELOPMENT, OD4D, DIGITAL DIVIDE, GLOBAL SOUTH

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http://hdl.handle.net/10625/52192
 http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2205145

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