Big Data for Development: A Review of Promises and Challenges Martin Hilbert, University of California, Davis; hilbert@ucdavis.edu Author’s version Hilbert, M. (2016). Big Data for Development: A Review of Promises and Challenges. Development Policy Review, 34(1), 135–174. http://doi.org/10.1111/dpr.12142 Abstract The article uses a conceptual framework to review empirical evidence and some 180 articles related to the opportunities and threats of Big Data Analytics for international development. The advent of Big Data delivers the cost-effective prospect to improve decision-making in critical development areas such as health care, economic productivity, and security. At the same time, all the well-known caveats of the Big Data debate, such as privacy concerns and human resource scarcity, are aggravated in developing countries by long-standing structural shortages in the areas of infrastructure, economic resources, and institutions. The result is a new kind of digital divide: a divide in data-based knowledge to inform intelligent decision- making. The article systematically reviews several available policy options to foster the opportunities and minimize the risks. Keywords: Big Data, decision-making, innovation, ICT, digital divide, digital, international development. Acknowledgements: The author thanks International Development Research Centre Canada (IDRC) for commissioning a more extensive study that laid the groundwork for the present article. He is also indebted to Manuel Castells, Nathan Petrovay, Francois Bar, and Peter Monge for food for thought, and to Matthew Smith, Rohan Samarajiva, Sriganesh Lokanathan, and Fernando Perini for helpful comments on draft versions, and thanks the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (UN-CEPAL), where part of the research was undertaken. The views expressed herein are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the United Nations.

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Big Data for Development: A Review of Promises and Challenges

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Continuous deployment of software intensive products and services: A systematic mapping study

Let's call digital transition the societal process arising from the deployment and uptake of ICTs. Indeed, with the current multiplication of devices, sensors, robots, and applications, and these emerging technologies, we have entered a new phase of the information age, a phase where the hybridization between bits and other forms of reality is so deep that it radically changes the human condition in at least four ways:

The Onlife Manifesto

What is the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the human condition? In order to address this question, in 2012 the European Commission organized a research project entitled The Onlife Initiative: concept reengineering for rethinking societal concerns in the digital transition. This volume collects the work of the Onlife Initiative. It explores how the development and widespread use of ICTs have a radical impact on the human condition.

ICTs are not mere tools but rather social forces that are increasingly affecting our self-conception (who we are), our mutual interactions (how we socialise); our conception of reality (our metaphysics); and our interactions with reality (our agency). In each case, ICTs have a huge ethical, legal, and political significance, yet one with which we have begun to come to terms only recently.

The impact exercised by ICTs is due to at least four major transformations: the blurring of the distinction between reality and virtuality; the blurring of the distinction between human, machine and nature; the reversal from information scarcity to information abundance; and the shift from the primacy of stand-alone things, properties, and binary relations, to the primacy of interactions, processes and networks.

Such transformations are testing the foundations of our conceptual frameworks. Our current conceptual toolbox is no longer fitted to address new ICT-related challenges. This is not only a problem in itself. It is also a risk, because the lack of a clear understanding of our present time may easily lead to negative projections about the future. The goal of The Manifesto, and of the whole book that contextualises, is therefore that of contributing to the update of our philosophy. It is a constructive goal. The book is meant to be a positive contribution to rethinking the philosophy on which policies are built in a hyperconnected world, so that we may have a better chance of understanding our ICT-related problems and solving them satisfactorily.

The Manifesto launches an open debate on the impacts of ICTs on public spaces, politics and societal expectations toward policymaking in the Digital Agenda for Europe’s remit. More broadly, it helps start a reflection on the way in which a hyperconnected world calls for rethinking the referential frameworks on which policies are built.

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The Onlife Manifesto: Being Human in a Hyperconnected Era

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Project studies: What it is, where it is going

Castell’s book is the first part of his milstone “The Information Age: Economy Society, and Culture” work. The author states that, the triology was prepared to be a single book, but then with the contributions of the editor, it was divided into three books by making each part of the study a separate book. In this particular book, Castells presents an easily understandable and comprehensive analysis by examining the economic, social, and cultural changes that caused by the Network Society. He does this by being as realistic as possible and reaching a clear conclusion by supporting all of his claims with various statistics and examples.

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The Rise of the Network Society - The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture

Considering that social media addiction is probably the most recent type of technology addiction, the present study was designed based on the six components suggested by Griffiths (2013). Toward the main purpose of the study, the "Bergen Facebook Addiction Scale" was adapted to social media addiction and translated into Turkish. After the validation process, it was administered to a total of 700 students; of them 397 were high school students and 303 were university students. The data collection instrument included 18 five-point Likert-type items in six categories, along with 5 structured items regarding demographics of the respondents. In addition to the original findings of the present study, similar research on social media addiction in some other countries were examined for comparisons. The results showed that both university students and high school students have a moderate level of addiction to social media. Being a university or high school student does not make any difference on the level of social media addiction. However, significant differences were found regarding gender, duration of use, department at the university, and type of high school. Finally, the results of the study show certain similarities and a few differences with the results of the studies conducted in other countries.

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A Comparative Study on Social Media Addiction of High School and University Students.

Bireyler goc ettikleri yerlerde olusturduklari topluluklarla, karsilastiklari sorunlarda birbirlerine destek olmakta ve boylece goc edilen yeni yerlere uyum surecini kolaylastirmaktadirlar. Olusturulan bu topluluklar her zaman fiziksel olmamakta; zaman zaman bilgisayar ve Internet tabanli ortamlar kullanilarak da goc eden bireyler birbirlerine ulasmaktadirlar. Peki olusturulan bu sayisal topluluklar gercekten fiziksel topluluklarin yaptigi gibi bireylerin uyum surecini kolaylastirma islevini yerine getirebilmekte midir? Bu soru baglaminda bu calismada goc eden bireylerin is ortamlarinda ve ozel hayatlarinda catisma yasayip yasamadiklari, eger yasiyorlarsa bu catismalari nasil cozdukleri ele alinmistir. Bunun yani sira sayisal topluluklarin bu catismalarin cozumunde bir rol oynayip oynamadiklari,  eger oynuyorlarsa bu rolun ne oldugu; eger oynamiyorlar ise sayisal topluluklarin goc surecinde nasil bir isleve sahip olduklari irdelenmistir.

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Göçmenlerin Uyum Sağlama Sürecinde Yaşadıkları Çatışmalar ve Sayısal Topluluklar

Logo design is the most powerful visual instrument that indicates how brands seem to their stakeholders and determines the brand's reputation. In the past, corporations focused only on the graphic design of logos, and this situation has changed over time and included many intangible features such as the institution's culture, stance goals, and the position that individuals want to be in the content of the logo. In this context, the current research looks for similarities of linear effects in logo designs belonging to brands with strong corporate reputations. It investigates the relationship between the character traits and emotions reflected by these effects and the perception of reputation. We employed an artificial intelligence-based “Psychophysiological Data Harvesting” technique for this research and used a multi-method. While conducting the research, the visual identities of the world's top 10 brands with the strongest corporate reputation (2016-2020), according to the Global RepTrak® 100 Research, were examined. As part of the Psychophysiological Data Harvesting technique, participants' logos, facial expression analyses, and eye-tracking data were compared with the participant's responses to the survey questions. Thirty-nine people participated in the research. As a result, valuable findings were obtained about which linear effects and emotions should be applied for a strong perception of corporate reputation. It is thought that the results of the linear effect, character traits and emotional states in the logo production processes will be beneficial and will guide the designers to create the strength of the corporate reputation in the dimension of visual identity.

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Taner Kizilhan

Papers

The Rise of the Network Society - The Information Age: Economy, Society, and Culture

A Comparative Study on Social Media Addiction of High School and University Students.

Göçmenlerin Uyum Sağlama Sürecinde Yaşadıkları Çatışmalar ve Sayısal Topluluklar

Evaluating the relationship between logo and corporate reputation with psychophysiological data harvesting technique