Does Your Phone Know Where You Live?

New America

Friday, September 27, 2019 - 3:00pm to 7:30pm

We live in an increasingly urban and networked world. As our social and economic lives move online, we are beginning to generate a wealth of data that can reveal important things about our movements and behaviors. The financial inclusion sector is already relying on digital footprints to offer banking services to populations previously deemed un-creditworthy. The humanitarian sector, meanwhile, is turning to social media and cell phone data to locate disaster survivors. Can these models be applied to land and property rights?

Agenda:

 

10:00 Welcoming Remarks

  • Yuliya Panfil, Senior Fellow and Director, Future of Property Rights, New America

10:10 Presentations

  • Presentation Name TBD
    • Emmanuel Letouzé is the Director and co-Founder of Data-Pop Alliance, a coalition on big data and development co-created in 2013 by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab, and the Overseas Development Institute.
  • Location Data: Considerations on Accuracy and Privacy
    • Xavier Vollenweider is an economist at Flowminder, non-profit based in Stockholm, Sweden that analyzes data from mobile phones, satellites, and surveys to improve public health and welfare in low- and middle-income countries. Xavier’s interest lies in using novel data sources and techniques to characterize poverty dynamics, climate vulnerability and the adoption of mobile financial services.
  • A Digital Upgrade to Mass Claims Procedures: 'Alternative’ Evidence and Housing, Land and Property Rights in Conflict-affected Contexts
    • Matthew Pritchard is a researcher who specializes in post-war and post-crisis land tenure reform, including the use of non-traditional digital evidence for post-conflict housing, land, and property restitution.
  • Harnessing the Transformational Power of Decentralized Identity
    • Heather Dahl is CEO of the Sovrin Foundation, an international non-profit that was established to govern the Sovrin Identity Network, a public service utility enabling self-sovereign identity on the internet.

11:30 Presenter Q&A

  • Moderator: Chris Mellon, Policy Analyst, Future of Property Rights, New America

12:00 Lunch

12:30 Working Groups

  • The participants will be divided into small working groups composed of experts in a mix of different fields. Virtual meeting rooms will be available for the remote participants. Each working group will explore a different set of questions. At the end, the groups will reconvene to share and discuss their conclusions.

2:30 Closing

 

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