October 23: Big Data for Development & Humanitarian Action: Towards Responsible Governance | United Nations Global Pulse

On October 23, 2015 Global Pulse & Leiden University will host an international expert meeting on “Big Data for Development and Humanitarian Action:Towards Responsible Governance” to be held on the margins of Privacy Week in Amsterdam. It is also being organised as part of the annual meeting of the UN Global Pulse Data Privacy Advisory Group. The event will bring together a government representatives along with top public, private, civil society, and academic experts in policy and data governance. The agenda of the meeting will be dedicated to the opportunities and challenges presented by big data in development and humanitarian sectors. The discussion will concentrate on finding solutions that could inform the design of parameters for responsible use of big data in these contexts.