Keynote talk #2: Big data analytics for appropriate technology

Summary form only given. Big data has been an important issue in many research domains. The amount of data generated is not only growing in the developed world, also the developing countries is experiencing rapid growth in data generation. However, a large part of the data generated in the developing countries has a different origin than in the rest of the world: the developing world is progressing rapidly to the mobile era and is largely skipping the desktop and wired era. This requires a completely new approach, but also offers a vast range of possibilities to beat poverty. In this talk, appropriate technologies will be discussed to solve such problems in developing countries by using big data analytics. Big data can be as a catalyst for long lasting improvements, but we will have to look further ahead to see that. Mobile data alone is not sufficient to really create opportunities that could impact developing countries on the long term. Therefore, more data sources are required, ranging from data from NGO´s, to public data and social data.