urban informatics

Understanding the Impact of Urban Infrastructure: New Insights from Population-Scale Data

As a growing share of the world’s population inhabits cities, a central focus of current development policy has been on building urban infrastructure to support increasing population density. An important component of such policy has been the …

Big Data to Improve Urban Planning

Data analytics is a frontier field where the tools and techniques are still being developed. Expertise, a critical input, is in short supply, the other being access to data. Even so,Colombo-based LIRNEasia has demonstrated the value of mobile network …