Data-Pop Alliance
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Data-Pop Alliance is a non-profit think tank founded by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab and the Overseas Development Institute.[1][2][3] Emmanuel Letouzé is the Director and Co-Founder and Alex Pentland is Academic Director.[4] Its research areas includes public policy,[5][6] inequality,[7] privacy,[8] crime,[9] climate change[10][11] and human rights.[12]
- New York City
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| Formation | 2014 |
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| Type | Think Tank |
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Key people | Emmanuel Letouzé, Patrick Vinck, Alex "Sandy" Pentland |
| Affiliations | Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, MIT Media Lab, Overseas Development Institute, Flowminder |
| Website | http://datapopalliance.org/ |
Data-Pop Alliance is a partner for the United Nations Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data and the Sustainable Development Learning & Training Course Partnerships.[13] In addition, it is a partner of the United Nations System Staff College in the context of Agenda 2030.[14]
From 2014 to 2020, Data-Pop Alliance was hosted by ThoughtWorks in New York City.[15] In 2018, it opened a regional office in Mexico City[16] and in 2021, a regional office in Dakar, Senegal. Nuria Oliver serves as Data-Pop Alliance's Chief Data Scientist. Data-Pop Alliance currently operates projects in over 20 countries, with staff located in Latin America, the MENA region, and Europe.