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MPD for information society<\/strong>

ITU leads global efforts to advance the use of mobile phone big data (MPD) to strengthen statistical systems and support evidence-based policymaking.

Through its Mobile Phone Big Data for Measuring the Information Society<\/em> initiative, ITU develops methodologies and analytical tools to harness MPD for information society indicators, provides technical assistance and training to help countries integrate MPD into their statistical systems and collaborates with international experts to improve data timeliness, quality, and granularity for policymaking.

Disclaimer: <\/strong>The data shown in this video are based on synthetic mobile phone data and OpenCelliD tower location data, plotted on Nairobi geographic shapefiles (source). The visualizations are for illustrative purposes only and do not represent real individuals or actual mobile network activity.<\/em> Source: https:\/\/www.geoboundaries.org\/<\/a><\/em>
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