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Business Briefing: hack-proof, how business can stay ahead in cybersecurity
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Businesses are going about cybersecurity the wrong way and need to go back to the question: what are you trying to protect?
The truth is that data in Africa are not produced on time, not frequently enough, are of poor quality and aren’t accurate. This makes it difficult to make data driven decisions.
Many South African teachers don’t accept the theory of evolution. They feel deeply conflicted when they have to teach it to their pupils as part of the life sciences curriculum.
More and more Africans are becoming citizen scientists – and the benefits are huge both for them as individuals and for science on the continent.
The Australian census is just one way to gather data on people. We also freely give out information in other ways that can be used to study many things, and maybe even predict an election result.
Some water researchers are ignoring the evidence offered by sampling if it doesn’t fit their preconceived notions. But science should always be honest and open.
It is arrogant and hypocritical for ranking institutions to declare that they’re building Africa’s legacy or its global partnerships on the continent’s behalf.
Without data, people don’t know what to believe or whom to trust. Empirical, thorough data collected by academics can help to fill important governance gaps.
The way the higher education sector uses data from the OECD is often technically correct, but substantively misleading.
Analyzing electronic data from many doctors’ experiences with many patients, we can move ever closer to answering the age-old question: what is truly best for each patient?
Some of the most in-demand ecologists in Africa are specialists in statistics. But this is currently a scarce skill combination in Africa.
When major data breaches happen, how are they carried out? And is there anything companies can do about them?
Some of the most vulnerable people in society are being kept alive by food banks.
The design of a new chip to detect the twisted nature of light waves could pave the way for next generation of optical communication technologies.
By linking censuses through time or by combining other information with the census, many more important policy questions can be answered than if we used one dataset alone.
Data journalism and visualisation can help ordinary citizens understand complex issues in their societies more deeply. And that drives democracy.
Big Data produces mountains of information, but it’s useless for science unless we’re asking the right questions.
African academics should be leading the pack when it comes to producing research and information about the continent. So what’s holding them back?
Business and consumers are demanding more data than ever, and the traditional barcode isn’t cutting it any more.
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Co-Founder of The Data Tank and Co-Founder and Chief Research and Development Officer of the Governance Laboratory (GovLab), New York University
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Assistant Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, and Demography, Penn State
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Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Richmond
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Professor of Health Services and Policy Research, University of British Columbia
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Associate professor, University of Sydney
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Professor of the Practice of Data Science, Washington University in St. Louis
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice and Primary Care, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Data Science, University of Adelaide
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Former postdoctoral researcher on machine learning applied to chemical engineering and currently science communicator for the National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation (Miraikan), University of Tokyo
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Director of the International Laboratory of Demography and Human Capital, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Clinical Senior Research Associate, MRC Epidemiology Unit, University of Cambridge
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Professor of Higher Education, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Professor of Law, Griffith University, Griffith University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
