Background

Telecom data can change the way we understand human behavior and complement existing instruments of data collection. We strive to empower the global community with new data sources and open technologies. We are developing tools to process and analyze telecom data by drawing on our experiences in data analysis and capacity building – work with regulators, MNOs, and international organizations such as ITU, ADB, and the World Bank. We hope our tools help the development community use telecom data for producing actionable information, which will inform decision-making and facilitate inclusive and sustainable development.

Open-source software – Mobipack

Mobipack Standalone and Mobipack Hadoop are open-source software under the MIT license. Its development was initiated by The University of Tokyo, and enhanced by the support of ITU and MIC, Japan in 2015 to demonstrate the possibility of the use of telecom data for the epidemic control. Additional modules were developed through the support of GPSDD (one of 10 Development Data Innovation Projects. Complementing the population census in Sri Lanka) and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (GCE award for the malaria analytics in Mozambique) in 2017/18. Currently, it is maintained by Spatial Data Commons – a joint effort by The University of Tokyo and LocationMind Inc.

Spatial Data Commons on GitHub

License

This software is licensed under the MIT License.
http://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php

Copyright (c) 2020 Spatial Data Commons
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the “Software”), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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Mobipack Standalone

Features

Mobipack Standalone is designed to help users get statistics, indicators, and visualizations of population movements using telecom data

Modules and outputs

De-identification

  • A tool for de-identifying identifiable value in Data such as the IMEI, IMSI, and phone number. It is Java application that can be run in any operating system and also support running anonymization with multi-thread to speed up the process. Using a machine with a GPU will make encoding faster.
  • GitHub: De-identification tool

Interpolation

  • A set of software for route interpolation. Telecom data are intermittent because it is generated only when the mobile phone is used. The route interpolation helps reconstruct such missing parts based on road networks with interpolation techniques.
  • This module includes tools for dwelling point extraction, trip segmentation, spatial disaggregation to POIs, and route interpolation using transportation networks.
  • GitHub: Interpolation package

Visualization – Mobmap online

  • An online tool for visualization and analysis of mobility/trajectory data such as telecom data. It supports color labeling, various marker styles, and data filters.
  • GitHub: Mobmap online

Visualization – Mobmap Win App

  • A windows application of the Mobmap online. It supports much larger data size compared to the Mobmap Online.
    GitHub: Mobmap Native Win

Infrastructure update

  • A set of tools for creating/extracting infrastructure data files/databases from OSM (OpenStreetMap) such as PoI data for reallocation, road network data for route interpolation, and Voronoi cells of cell towers.
  • GitHub: Infrastructure Updates

Mobipack Hadoop

Features

Like the Mobipack Standalone, Mobipack Hadoop is a set of tools written in Python for analyzing de-identified telecom data based on the Hadoop platform that supports a massive amounts of data. This includes modules for Visualization, Origin-Destination (OD) estimation, and interpolation.

Modules and outputs

Visualization

  • Visualization (with reports and processed data compatible with other visualization platforms)
  • GitHub: Statistics

OD computation

Interpolation

Data

Coming soon.