DATA FOR DEVELOPMENT: THE D4D CHALLENGE ON MOBILE PHONE DATA

Abstract. The Orange “Data for Development ” (D4D) challenge is an open data challenge on anonymous call patterns of Orange’s mobile phone users in Ivory Coast. The goal of the challenge is to help address society development questions in novel ways by contributing to the socio-economic development and well-being of the Ivory Coast population. Participants to the challenge are given access to four mobile phone datasets and the purpose of this paper is to describe the four datasets. The websit