Development Policy Review· 2015Q2· Review
Big Data for Development: A Review of Promises and Challenges
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Short summary
Big Data Analytics offers cost-effective improvements for development areas like healthcare and economic productivity, but developing countries face aggravated challenges like privacy, infrastructure, and institutional shortages, creating a new digital divide in data-based decision-making.
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Key points
- Big Data Analytics presents a cost-effective opportunity to enhance decision-making in development sectors like healthcare, economic productivity, and security.
- Developing countries face exacerbated challenges in adopting Big Data due to pre-existing shortages in infrastructure, economic resources, and institutions.
- Common Big Data concerns such as privacy and human resource scarcity are amplified in developing nations.
- A new digital divide is emerging, characterized by unequal access to and use of data-based knowledge for intelligent decision-making.
- The article reviews policy options aimed at maximizing the benefits and minimizing the risks of Big Data in development.
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Abstract
The article uses a conceptual framework to review empirical evidence and some 180 articles related to the opportunities and threats of Big Data Analytics for international development. The advent of Big Data delivers a cost‐effective prospect for improved decision‐making in critical development areas such as healthcare, economic productivity and security. At the same time, the well‐known caveats of the Big Data debate, such as privacy concerns and human resource scarcity, are aggravated in developing countries by long‐standing structural shortages in the areas of infrastructure, economic resources and institutions. The result is a new kind of digital divide: a divide in the use of data‐based knowledge to inform intelligent decision‐making. The article systematically reviews several available policy options in terms of fostering opportunities and minimising risks.
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