<div dir="ltr">Hi Steve,<div><br></div><div>Your article and ideas are brilliants. You should consider also opening data from operators as it has been done in Senegal with Orange to find patterns in order to adapt infrastructure and services. Operators are sitting on huge datasets which could be useful to improve quality of life.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Olivier</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2018-03-15 17:45 GMT+01:00 Steve Song <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:stevesong@nsrc.org" target="_blank">stevesong@nsrc.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Olivier,<br></div><div><br>That's great to see. It would be fantastic to see Open Data principles extended into the world of telecommunications. <br><br><a href="https://manypossibilities.net/2017/06/the-case-for-open-data-in-telecoms/" target="_blank">https://manypossibilities.net/<wbr>2017/06/the-case-for-open-<wbr>data-in-telecoms/</a><br><br></div>Liberia is a great example of the need for transparency in this sector as the relative inaccessibility of information on mobile infrastructure directly impeded ebola relief efforts.<br><br></div>Kind regards... Steve Song<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On 15 March 2018 at 13:18, Olivier Alais <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:olivier@alais.org" target="_blank">olivier@alais.org</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">Dear all,</span><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">I have been working recently with Daniel Nogueira-Budny on the Open Data Readiness Assessment in Liberia. The Columbia/SIPA Journal of International Affairs has just published our analysis<span> </span><a href="https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/online-articles/preparing-data-driven-revolution-liberia" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">here</a>.<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Best,</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial">Olivier</div><br class="m_4381919761246548349m_-268560343787317450m_8406777317098593129gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><br></div>
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