Orange has
announced the winners of this year’s Data for Development (D4D) Challenge in
Senegal which ran from 2014 to April 2015 in conjunction with Sonatel and
Orange under the patronage of the Senegalese Ministry of Higher Education and
Research, ITRealms
reports.
The winners of the challenge, University of
Manchester and the Santa Fe Institute, ITRealms learnt clinched the first prize of
US$5000.00 (approximately 995,000.00 Naira), for using mobile phone data for
electrification planning, with
support from the Université Cheikh Anta Diop.
The challenge as gathered by ITRealms was organised around five core
questions and themes relating to health, agriculture, transportation/urban
planning, energy and national statistics; identified with the Senegalese
Ministries or partner institutions, and designed specifically to challenge
organisations to produce solutions for the purpose of societal development and
the welfare of the population in Senegal.
Special consideration was also awarded for
progress made in data sciences, anonymisation, big data ethics and to foster
greater involvement with local organisations and promote education in this
growing field.
Other prizes as learnt by ITRealms went as follows; Agriculture Prize for Genesis of
millet prices in Senegal; Health Prize
for Uncovering the impact of human mobility on schistosomias; National Statistics Prize for Virtual
Networks and Poverty Analysis in Senegal; Transport Prize for National and Regional Road Network
Optimisation for Senegal; Scientific
and Ethics Mention price for Construction of socio-demographic
indicators with digital breadcrumbs; Data
Crossing Prize for Using mobile phone data for Spatial Planning
simulation and Optimisation Technologies (SPOT); Data Visualisation Prize for O05, Data for Development Reloaded:
Visual Matrix Techniques for the Exploration and Analysis of Massive Mobile
Phone Data, and Practical Application
Prize for Mobile Data as Public-Health Decision Enabler.
The competition as gathered by ITRealms was overseen by an External Ethics Panel comprising twelve
members from across academia, business, public and non-profit organisations and
the final winning entries were selected by the D4D Committee.
Daniel Nsolibe/GEE
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