Society's Nervous System: Building Effective Government, Energy, and Public Health Systems

Pentland, Alex

doi:10.1109/mc.2011.299

Cited by 49 publications

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“…Quoting Pentland [1], the simplest approach to defining what it means to own your own data is to go back to Old English Common Law for the three basic tenets of ownership, which are the rights of possession, use, and disposal: happy with the way a company uses your data, you can remove it. Everything must be opt-in, and not only clearly explained in plain language, but with regular reminders that you have the option to opt out.…”

Section: Trust-aware Social Sensing and The New Deal On Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

A planetary nervous system for social mining and collective awareness

Giannotti

Pedreschi

Pentland

et al. 2012

Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top.

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Abstract. We present a research roadmap of a Planetary Nervous System (PNS), capable of sensing and mining the digital breadcrumbs of human activities and unveiling the knowledge hidden in the big data for addressing the big questions about social complexity. We envision the PNS as a globally distributed, self-organizing, techno-social system for answering analytical questions about the status of world-wide society, based on three pillars: social sensing, social mining and the idea of trust networks and privacy-aware social mining. We discuss the ingredients of a science and a technology necessary to build the PNS upon the three mentioned pillars, beyond the limitations of their respective state-of-art. Social sensing is aimed at developing better methods for harvesting the big data from the techno-social ecosystem and make them available for mining, learning and analysis at a properly high abstraction level. Social mining is the problem of discovering patterns and models of human behaviour from the sensed data across the various social dimensions by data mining, machine learning and social network analysis. Trusted networks and privacy-aware social mining is aimed at creating a new deal around the questions of privacy and data ownership empowering individual persons with full awareness and control on own personal data, so that users may allow access and use of their data for their own good and the common good. The PNS will provide a goal-oriented knowledge discovery framework, made of technology and people, able to configure itself to the aim of answering questions a

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Section: Trust-aware Social Sensing and The New Deal On Datamentioning

confidence: 99%

A planetary nervous system for social mining and collective awareness

Giannotti

Pedreschi

Pentland

et al. 2012

Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top.

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“…In this article, we do not intend to bridge all the gaps outlined in the four groups of issues described above (Pentland 2012). In our opinion they represent a research roadmap and a challenge that will face statisticians and computer scientists over the next years.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Small Area Model-Based Estimators Using Big Data Sources

Marchetti

Giusti

Pratesi

et al. 2015

Journal of Official Statistics

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The timely, accurate monitoring of social indicators, such as poverty or inequality, on a finegrained spatial and temporal scale is a crucial tool for understanding social phenomena and policymaking, but poses a great challenge to official statistics. This article argues that an interdisciplinary approach, combining the body of statistical research in small area estimation with the body of research in social data mining based on Big Data, can provide novel means to tackle this problem successfully. Big Data derived from the digital crumbs that humans leave behind in their daily activities are in fact providing ever more accurate proxies of social life. Social data mining from these data, coupled with advanced model-based techniques for fine-grained estimates, have the potential to provide a novel microscope through which to view and understand social complexity. This article suggests three ways to use Big Data together with small area estimation techniques, and shows how Big Data has the potential to mirror aspects of well-being and other socioeconomic phenomena.

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“…Several researchers have proposed and investigated new user-centric models for personal data management, which enable individuals to have more control of their own data's life-cycle [39]. To this end, researchers and companies are developing repositories which implement medium-grained access control to different kinds of personally identifiable information (PII), such as e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%