Advancing Development with Mobile Phone Locational Data : Improving the Effectiveness of Assistance
Mobile phones, and especially smartphones, are opening new ways to assess and improve assistance and the delivery of basic services in the developing world. Each year, developing countries see an annual gain of about 500 million new smartphones, vi...
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okr-10986-223102021-04-23T14:04:08Z Advancing Development with Mobile Phone Locational Data : Improving the Effectiveness of Assistance Haddad, Ryan Kelly, Timothy Leinonen, Teemu Saarinen, Vesa USERS BUS ROUTES PHONE TECHNOLOGY BUS EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT TRAVEL TRANSIT SCIENCE SOFTWARE RESULTS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY VALUE MOBILE PHONE GPS CAPABILITY SOFTWARE SYSTEM NETWORKS INFORMATION PROGRAMS SERVICES TREND MONITORING MASS TRANSIT RESEARCHERS PROJECTS TRAFFIC BUS ROUTE ROUTES PLANNING REAL-TIME DATA TRANSIT ROUTES SUPPLY CHAIN CAR SATELLITE RESULT CONCEPT KNOWLEDGE ICT DATA ROAD BLOG COSTS PHONES TRANSPORT FUEL ROUTE DATA PROBABILITY TRANSPORT PLANNING OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE MOBILE PHONES EXPERTS EDGE TRIPS COMMUNICATION SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT CONNECTIVITY LEARNING DATABASE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY TRAVEL TIMES TRAVEL TIME DATABASES INVENTORY ROUTE BROADBAND USES CAPABILITIES TRAVEL PATTERNS USER BOTTLENECKS Mobile phones, and especially smartphones, are opening new ways to assess and improve assistance and the delivery of basic services in the developing world. Each year, developing countries see an annual gain of about 500 million new smartphones, virtually all of which generate not only call data records but also, with their GPS and Wi-Fi capabilities, a rich set of more precise data on location and movement. The rapid diffusion of the phones and the locational data they generate are helping fuel the science of delivery, the evidence-based, experimental approach to project assessment and improvement. The technology is finding an expanding variety of uses. Recent examples involving transport and logistics include: transit route mapping in Abidjan; supply chain management for community health workers in Malawi; transport planning in Cote d’Ivoire; and malaria tracking in Kenya. A notable and more impromptu use arose after a tsunami hit Japan in March 2011. Health care authorities used call data records (CDRs) generated by mobile phones to track the evacuation from the vicinity of the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant. They then meshed the CDRs with health records to optimize the delivery of needed emergency health treatment. 2015-07-28T18:07:42Z 2015-07-28T18:07:42Z 2015-01 Brief http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24441343/advancing-development-mobile-phone-locational-data-improving-effectiveness-assistance http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22310 English en_US Transport and ICT connections,no. 4; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank Group, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Brief |
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USERS BUS ROUTES PHONE TECHNOLOGY BUS EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT TRAVEL TRANSIT SCIENCE SOFTWARE RESULTS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY VALUE MOBILE PHONE GPS CAPABILITY SOFTWARE SYSTEM NETWORKS INFORMATION PROGRAMS SERVICES TREND MONITORING MASS TRANSIT RESEARCHERS PROJECTS TRAFFIC BUS ROUTE ROUTES PLANNING REAL-TIME DATA TRANSIT ROUTES SUPPLY CHAIN CAR SATELLITE RESULT CONCEPT KNOWLEDGE ICT DATA ROAD BLOG COSTS PHONES TRANSPORT FUEL ROUTE DATA PROBABILITY TRANSPORT PLANNING OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE MOBILE PHONES EXPERTS EDGE TRIPS COMMUNICATION SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT CONNECTIVITY LEARNING DATABASE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY TRAVEL TIMES TRAVEL TIME DATABASES INVENTORY ROUTE BROADBAND USES CAPABILITIES TRAVEL PATTERNS USER BOTTLENECKS |
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USERS BUS ROUTES PHONE TECHNOLOGY BUS EMERGENCY EQUIPMENT TRAVEL TRANSIT SCIENCE SOFTWARE RESULTS INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY VALUE MOBILE PHONE GPS CAPABILITY SOFTWARE SYSTEM NETWORKS INFORMATION PROGRAMS SERVICES TREND MONITORING MASS TRANSIT RESEARCHERS PROJECTS TRAFFIC BUS ROUTE ROUTES PLANNING REAL-TIME DATA TRANSIT ROUTES SUPPLY CHAIN CAR SATELLITE RESULT CONCEPT KNOWLEDGE ICT DATA ROAD BLOG COSTS PHONES TRANSPORT FUEL ROUTE DATA PROBABILITY TRANSPORT PLANNING OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE MOBILE PHONES EXPERTS EDGE TRIPS COMMUNICATION SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT CONNECTIVITY LEARNING DATABASE COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY TRAVEL TIMES TRAVEL TIME DATABASES INVENTORY ROUTE BROADBAND USES CAPABILITIES TRAVEL PATTERNS USER BOTTLENECKS Haddad, Ryan Kelly, Timothy Leinonen, Teemu Saarinen, Vesa Advancing Development with Mobile Phone Locational Data : Improving the Effectiveness of Assistance |
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Mobile phones, and especially
smartphones, are opening new ways to assess and improve
assistance and the delivery of basic services in the
developing world. Each year, developing countries see an
annual gain of about 500 million new smartphones, virtually
all of which generate not only call data records but also,
with their GPS and Wi-Fi capabilities, a rich set of more
precise data on location and movement. The rapid diffusion
of the phones and the locational data they generate are
helping fuel the science of delivery, the evidence-based,
experimental approach to project assessment and improvement.
The technology is finding an expanding variety of uses.
Recent examples involving transport and logistics include:
transit route mapping in Abidjan; supply chain management
for community health workers in Malawi; transport planning
in Cote d’Ivoire; and malaria tracking in Kenya. A notable
and more impromptu use arose after a tsunami hit Japan in
March 2011. Health care authorities used call data records
(CDRs) generated by mobile phones to track the evacuation
from the vicinity of the damaged Fukushima nuclear power
plant. They then meshed the CDRs with health records to
optimize the delivery of needed emergency health treatment. |
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Brief |
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Haddad, Ryan Kelly, Timothy Leinonen, Teemu Saarinen, Vesa |
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Haddad, Ryan Kelly, Timothy Leinonen, Teemu Saarinen, Vesa |
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Haddad, Ryan |
| title |
Advancing Development with Mobile Phone Locational Data : Improving the Effectiveness of Assistance |
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Advancing Development with Mobile Phone Locational Data : Improving the Effectiveness of Assistance |
| title_full |
Advancing Development with Mobile Phone Locational Data : Improving the Effectiveness of Assistance |
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Advancing Development with Mobile Phone Locational Data : Improving the Effectiveness of Assistance |
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Advancing Development with Mobile Phone Locational Data : Improving the Effectiveness of Assistance |
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advancing development with mobile phone locational data : improving the effectiveness of assistance |
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World Bank Group, Washington, DC |
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2015 |
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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2015/07/24441343/advancing-development-mobile-phone-locational-data-improving-effectiveness-assistance http://hdl.handle.net/10986/22310 |
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