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The seeds of the “data revolution”

The seeds of the “data revolution”

Last summer the U.N. High-Level Panel of Eminent Persons on the Post-2015 Development Agenda (HLP) released a report that does a fine job of thinking through what international development goals should succeed the Millennium Development Goals, which expire in 2015. Perhaps to the surprise even of its authors, one idea in the report got lots of people talking: the call for a “data revolution”: Continue reading “The seeds of the “data revolution””

Author DavidPosted on April 3, 2014April 3, 2014Tags data revolution1 Comment on The seeds of the “data revolution”

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