Abstract Frequent and granular population data are essential for decision-making. Furthermore, for progress monitoring towards achieving the sustainable development goals (SDGs), data availability at global scales as well as at different disaggregated levels is required. The high population coverage of mobile cellular signals has been accelerating the generation of large-scale spatiotemporal data such as call […]

With the colleagues of the UN Committee of Experts on Big Data and Data Science for Official Statistics (UN-CEBD) Mobile Phone Data Task Team (TT) Ayumi Arai will be presenting at “Mobilizing Big Data and Data Science for the Sustainable Development Goals”, happening in Dubai, UAE, on 25th – 27th January 2022. This is part […]

A short article on a data pipeline for analyzing mobile phone data was published on World Bank’s blog: Let’s Talk Development. read more

Ayumi Arai will be presenting the case study of The Gambia at the UN World Data Forum 2021 happening in Bern, Switzerland, 3 – 6th October.Our session will be on Tuesday, October 5th, 15-16:00 CET (Swiss time) View our session here Registration here “Guiding principles to maintain public trust in the use of mobile operator […]

AbstractThe COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of mobile operator data to support public policy, although without a universal governance framework for its application. This article describes five principles to guide and assist statistical agencies, mobile network operators and intermediary service providers, who are actively working on projects using mobile operator data to support governments […]

A paper summarizing the work in The Gambia was published from Data and Policy Journal. Read this paper. The hidden potential of call detail records in The GambiaAyumi Arai, Erwin Knippenberg, Moritz Meyer, and Apichon Witayangkurn AbstractAggregated data from mobile network operators (MNOs) can provide snapshots of population mobility patterns in real time, generating valuable […]

Our project was selected as one of the pilots awarded by the TechEmerge Resilience India Challenge. For more information, please visit IFC TechEmerge website.

A short article on our project funded by the Collaborative Data Innovation Fund is published as a blog post on GPSDD (Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data) website. Please visit their website here.

Data security and privacy is our priority. We are working with the regulator in African countries to support the use of telecom data for informing the COVID-19 response. We provide the regulator with a system that produces useful information from de-identified telecom data on their premise. The system enables the regulator to process the de-identified […]

We support the regulators and mobile network operators (MNOs) to use telecom data for informing the COVID-19 response efforts. We help them establish a data pipeline that enables them to extract useful information on mobility patterns and human behavior using de-identified telecom data. Our activity including our open-source software, Mobipack, is listed as one of […]