Big Data for Migration Alliance

Data Migration Publication

Ethical Considerations in Re-Using Private Sector Data for Migration-Related Policy: A Practitioners’ Perspective

A new paper by IOM-GMDAC

The past decade has witnessed the rapid growth of non-traditional data (social media, mobile phones, satellite data, bank records, etc.) and...

Data and Migration Guest Blog

Data and displacement: Ethical and practical issues in data-driven humanitarian assistance for IDPs

A guest blog by Professor Vicki Squire

Ten years since the so-called “data revolution” (Pearn et al, 2022), the rise of “innovation” and the proliferation...

DATA INNOVATION EVENT GUEST...

Unlocking the potential of innovative data sources, tools, and methods in Africa: Current trends and prospects for better information in migration-related policymaking

Introduction: Pioneering migration data innovation initiatives in the African context In the information age, more data are produced than...

DIGITAL SELF-DETERMINATION...

How Can We Ensure the Digital Self-Determination of Migrants?

Highlights from the Second Studio on Digital Self Determination and Migration

By Hannah Chafetz, Uma Kalkar, Marine Ragnet, Stefaan Verhulst and Andrew J. Zahuranec In 2020, prior to the crisis in Ukraine, the United...

Digital Self-Determination...

Digital Self-Determination as a Tool for Migrant Empowerment

Takeaways from the First Studio on Digital Self Determination and Migration

In 2020, there were an estimated 281 million migrants, accounting for 3.6% of the global population. Migrants move for a variety of...

BD4M In the News

Migration: How Can Data Help Migrants?

Delving into efforts to establish data collaboratives, Andrew Young, The GovLab’s Knowledge Director, contributed a blog post to OECD’s Development Matters.

In recent years, stakeholders have pursued data innovations to enhance the ways in which decisions are made on migration. Delving into...

Data Innovation Event Guest...

Strengthening CRVS Systems to Improve Migration Policy: A Promising Innovation

Migration is one of the most pressing issues of our time and innovation for migration policy can take on several different shapes to help...

Data Innovation Event Guest...

Sea level rise and migration flows in Africa: what we can learn from a recent study on Bangladesh

Pietro De Lellis (Department of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, 80125 Naples,...

Special Collection

BD4M, in partnership with Data & Policy, Launches Data and Migration Policy Special Collection

In close collaboration with the Big Data for Migration Alliance  Data & Policy, an open access journal by Cambridge University...

BD4M Studio Report

Designing Data Collaboratives to Better Understand Human Mobility and Migration in West Africa

READ THE REPORT  Today, the Big Data for Migration Alliance (BD4M) is releasing the report, “Designing Data Collaboratives to...

IOM-UN Migration

Using Big Data to Understand Migration (Part 1)

Ingmar Weber, Research Director at Qatar Computing Research Institute, shares his views on the use of big data to understand migration. This...

IOM-UN Migration

Using Big Data to Understand Migration (Part 2)

Stefaan Verhulst, Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of The Governance Lab, shares his views on the use of big data to...

IOM-UN Migration

Using Big Data to Understand Migration (Part 3)

Alessandro Sorichetta, principal Research Fellow at the WorldPop Programme, shares his views on the use of big data to understand migration....

IOM - UN Migration

Using “Big Data” to forecast migration

A tale of high expectations, promising results and a long road ahead

Reposted from the IOM - UN Migration Medium Publication Act 1 — High Expectations “Data is the new oil,” they say....

BD4M In the News

Data innovation for migration: why now and how?

Now more than ever we need to invest in responsible data innovation for the analysis of mobility and migration

By Marzia Rango, Data Innovation and Capacity-Building Coordinator at the Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC), IOM – UN...

STATAFRIC and IOM GMDAC...

Migration data in times of COVID-19: Trends and policy implications in Africa

The African Union Institute for Statistics (STATAFRIC) and IOM's Global Migration Data Analysis Centre (GMDAC) organized a webinar on...

BD4M Webinar Series

Estimating Migrant Stocks and Flows Using Social Media Data

The first Big Data for Migration (BD4M) webinar titled "Estimating migrant stocks and flows using social media data" took place on 3...

Immigration & emigration...

The Data Innovation Directory: Unlocking the potential of big data for migration policy

Reposted from Migration Data Portal Whether we love it or loathe it, technology affects almost every aspect of our lives and it is likely to...

Immigration & emigration...

Are migrants left behind? How COVID-19 hinders better migration data

Reposted from Migration Data Portal Migrants worldwide play an important role in sectors vital to addressing the COVID-19 pandemic but are...

BD4M Studio Report

Designing Data Collaboratives to Better Understand Human Mobility and Migration in West Africa

The first BD4M Studio convened over 40 stakeholders in government, international organizations, research, civil society, and the public...

The 100 Questions

The 100 Questions Migration Data Agenda

To make sense of the disparate issues related to a domain such as migration, The GovLab’s 100 Questions methodology (detailed in full in...

BD4M

The Big Data for Migration Alliance Joint Concept Note

In November 2017, the European Commission’s Knowledge Centre on Migration and Demography (KCMD) and IOM’s Global Migration Data Analysis...

PLOS ONE Peer - Reviewed...

Monitoring of the Venezuelan exodus through Facebook’s advertising platform

Abstract: "Venezuela is going through the worst economical, political and social crisis in its modern history. Basic products like food or...

BD4M

Big Data and alternative sources on migration: From case-studies to policy support

Over the past few years, migration has risen as one of the most challenging issues confronting policymakers around the world. This has been...

Migration Policy Practice

Can Big Data help us achieve a "migration data revolution"?

"Big Data" is generated every time we send a text message, make a mobile phone call, run an Internet search, transfer money online or...

Big Data and Migration

Data Bulletin: Informing a Global Compact for Migration

What is the potential of new data sources, such as mobile phones, social media and satellite imagery, to improve understanding of...

IOM Migration Data Strategy

Informing Policy and Action on Migration, Mobility and Displacement 2020 | 2025

IOM has developed a comprehensive strategy – the Migration Data Strategy – to frame, focus and further amplify its existing robust...

PLOS ONE Peer-Reviewed...

Quantifying international human mobility patterns using Facebook Network data

Quantifying global international mobility patterns can improve migration governance. Despite decades of calls by the international community...

EPJ Data Science Journal...

Dissecting global air traffic data to discern different types and trends of transnational human mobility

Human mobility across national borders is a key phenomenon of our time. At the global scale, however, we still know relatively little about...

JRC Science for Policy Report

Towards an EU Policy on Migration Data

Improvements to the EU migration data landscape

Adequate data is key for evidence-informed policymaking. This report describes the initiative coordinated by the KCMD that has brought...

Safety Science Journal Article

Estimating and projecting air passenger traffic during the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak and its socio-economic impact

Due to the coronavirus global crisis, most countries have put in place restrictive measures in order to confine the pandemia and contain the...

Safety Science Journal Article

Measuring the impact of COVID-19 confinement measures on human mobility using mobile positioning data. A European regional analysis

This work presents a mobility indicator derived from fully anonymised and aggregated mobile positioning data. Even though the indicator does...

Nonlinear Dynamics Journal...

Human mobility and COVID-19 initial dynamics

Countries in Europe took different mobility containment measures to curb the spread of COVID-19. The European Commission asked mobile...

JRC Technical Report

Mapping Mobility Functional Areas (MFA) by using Mobile Positioning Data to Inform COVID-19 Policies

A European Regional Analysis

This work introduces the concept of data-driven Mobility Functional Areas (MFAs) as geographic zones with high degree of intra-mobility...

Migration Data Portal

Data Innovation Directory

Migration Data Portal:...

Big data, migration and human mobility

The 100 Questions

Migration

Mapping the most pressing, high-impact migrationquestions that could be answered if relevant datasets were leveraged in a responsible...

Knowledge Centre on Migration...

Dynamic Data Hub

The Dynamic Data Hub gives direct access to single datasets to visualise migration and demography data and trends.

Migration Data Portal

The Portal aims to serve as a unique access point to timely, comprehensive migration statistics and reliable information about migration data globally.

The Portal aims to serve as a unique access point to timely, comprehensive migration statistics and reliable information about migration...