Media Review
Facebook to build data center south of Salt Lake City
Facebook will build a nearly 1 million-square-foot data center at the foot of Utah’s Lake Mountains. (…) Facebook’s head of data center strategy, Rachel Peterson, said the company picked the site because of the availability of renewable energy, local workforce and community support. (…) the data center is expected to open in 2020.
The Washington Times (US)
7 steps to securing mHealth data in low-resource settings
The platform includes phone and tablet-based apps for community health workers and their supervisors at health facilities. In essence, the apps facilitate stock management, and walk health workers through the registration, diagnosis, treatment, referral, and follow-up of patients — generating large amounts of sensitive health information along the way
Devex
SDG Dashboard Enables Users to Visualize and Monitor SDG Data
The Dashboard includes the capability to link national statistical office (NSO) data and government databases with the Dashboard. A ‘Citizens Vote’ tool allows users to identify the six issues that are most important to them, out of a total of 16 issues (…). Users can then see how their priorities compare with others, and view priorities around the world. Votes are recorded with the user’s gender, age, education level and location.
IISD
Six reasons why social media is a Bummer
Now companies are measuring whether individuals change their behaviours as they browse, and the feeds for each person are constantly tweaked to get the desired result. In short, your behaviour has been turned into a product – and corporate and political clients are lining up to modify it.
The Guardian
How to Handle the ‘Big Data Dilemma’ In 2018
There is an estimated 2.7 Zetabytes of data that exists in today’s digital world, yet only 0.5 percent of this data is being analyzed(…). Before the influx of data is even addressed or analyzed, companies need to think about how they want to utilize the data that is available.
Inside BigData
Facebook Gave Device Makers Deep Access to Data on Users and Friends
The New York Times
Non-tech businesses are beginning to use artificial intelligence at scale
The Economist
Report
The spread of true and false news online
Science
Events
4th International Conference on Governance, Crime and Justice Statistics
June 4-6, Peru
Conference of European Statistician - CES 66th plenary session
June 16-20, Switzerland
Forum of Experts in SEEA Experimental Ecosystem Accounting
June 18-20, New York
From Social Media
While most children are enrolled in primary #education, fewer enroll at the secondary & tertiary levels. Read more in the @WorldBank's new #SDGAtlas. https://t.co/NEyGh2f1h8 #OpenData pic.twitter.com/Xuf7fEdz42
World Bank Education (@WBG_Education) June 4, 2018
We analysed data from 49 countries to shed light on educational opportunities for persons with disabilities https://t.co/W22BGdtruM #Data4SDGs #equity #education pic.twitter.com/P8D0pgM25R
UNESCO Statistics (@UNESCOstat) June 4, 2018