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Most mobility analysis this past year tracks the movement of smartphones, not people. Our new study finds that in low income countries where few people have smartphones, those estimates can be substantially biased. Sveta Milusheva Leonardo Viotti (1/10) blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/can-w…

STAKEHOLDERS MEET AT A WORKSHOP ON THE IMPLEMENTION OF ROAD CRASH DATABASE IN KENYA Today is a culmination of a two day stakeholders workshop on the implementation of Road Crash Database Systems in Kenya.

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Happening Wednesday, May 11 --> Measuring Development 2022: Mobile Data for Global Development Research. The agenda is packed with tons of innovative data and interesting research, don't miss it! Virtual attendance is free and open to all. worldbank.org/en/events/2022…

Franco Conzato Capacity4dev Let's do it! Thank you Franco for a great partnership with the EU #green in Dakar Sveta Milusheva Heekwon Seo, #gender in Dar Girija Borker, #digital in Nairobi Jaime Royo Olid is leaving X to join Bluesky Debora Revoltella Lupe Bedoya Aidan Coville and #humandevelopment in Nigeria Victor Orozco-Olvera ! See you in Brussels soon!

googletraffic, a promising new #rstats package to download Google Traffic data dime-worldbank.github.io/googletraffic/…. 📦developed by Rob Marty from the DIME team at the World Bank World Bank Transport More info at their blog post: blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/intro…

How providing information can improve safety: Evidence from Kenya’s informal public transit sector voxdev.org/topic/infrastr…

Check out our blog on how ieConnect is partnering with the government to collect innovative data for measuring air pollution in Dakar blogs.worldbank.org/opendata/innov… via World Bank

Our new blog highlights some of the main challenges with accessing mobile phone data and steps necessary for the responsible access and use of these data

Importance of considering starting population size for accurate agent based modeling. Check out our new paper that uses the example of spatial ABM of COVID-19

Infrastructure - if done right - can be a powerful tool to manage the consequences of climate change. Thank you to Cecilia Scharp, Idah Pswarayi-Riddihough, Florence Kondylis, Aidan Coville, @krayberry & Saroj Kumar Jha for the inspiring discussions on this 2nd day of #DevImpactWeek

“fewer than 5 percent of current ⁦World Bank⁩ projects include an impact #evaluation . However, investing less than 1% of development project costs into research design & data can optimize delivery and increase impact by more than 50 percent.” worldbank.org/en/publication…

Join World Bank Research Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and Development Innovation Lab tomorrow for #MeasureDev2023: Mitigating the Risks and Impacts of Climate Change! Keynotes by Rachel Glennerster, Tamma Carleton, stephane hallegatte - opening remarks by Arianna Legovini - and lots of inspiring research. Details: worldbank.org/en/events/2023…

Happy to share that my paper with Aidan Coville, "How Do Policymakers Update Their Beliefs?", is accepted at the JDE! We leverage World Bank and IDB workshops to examine how policymakers, practitioners and researchers respond to #evidence. Here is what we find: 🧵

Transport research in Econ is still largely focused on upper and upper-middle income countries. We need to continue investing in research that will inform what policies can work in low income settings through programs like ieConnect

If you are on the U.S. east coast right now and have never lived anywhere with truly bad air pollution you're getting a taste of what hundreds of millions of people deal with every day.

Check out our new blog on the role of conscientiousness and how we can affect it to improve labor market outcomes for low-skill workers

We are very excited to be hosting the 2024 NetMob conference that will bring leading researchers working on mobile phone data analysis to DC and will help foster collaboration between academia and policy in this innovative space

Worsening climate anomalies are associated with LESS migration in West Africa. Check out our new paper in JEEM authors.elsevier.com/a/1jAPFLdSVAk3E