Mark Peterson, former analytics chief at USAID, describes technology for development




Data Talks with Ashutosh Nandeshwar show

Summary: Mark Peterson, ex-Division Chief, Data and Analytics at US Global Development Lab, USAID, founded a team to create new ways to generate, share, and analyze data to more effectively meet the challenges of poverty, hunger, and disease. Currently, he is researching ways to further development at Orange Silicon Valley. In this talk, he shares: How cell phone data can provide clues about the spread of diseases How information asymmetry can create inequity