Discover who the winners are!

Contributions and the winning projects were presented on May 1 during a dedicated event, which took place during the 2013 NetMob Conference.  To find out the winners, major projects and all the opportunities offered by the analysis of these data, please visit http://www.orange.com/en/D4D/Data-for-Development.

Thank you again for your participation.
 
The organizing committee
 

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Thank you for your participation 

Submission of projects for the D4D challenge is now over. We have received many fascinating contributions; it is incredible what can be done with these datasets.
 
 The descriptions of the datasets can still be accessed from http://arxiv.org/abs/1210.0137
 
 The selected and winning projects will be presented at a special session of the conference NetMob 2013 to be held at MIT (USA) on May 1-3, 2013. See http://www.netmob.org for more details on the conference and http://www.eventbrite.com/event/4897676081 for registration. We hope to see you there for a fascinating session on data for development.
 
 Thank you again for your participation.
 
 The organizing committee
 

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In short

Write a 250-words research project and get access within a week to the largest ever released mobile phone dataset! More than 5 millions people over 5 months.
Deadline: October 31, 2012 - Last days ! Extension until November 15 for African research teams only

The dataset

The Orange phones calls in Ivory Cost during 5 month (from December 2011 to April 2012). The original dataset contains 2.5 billion records, calls and text messages exchanged between 5 million anonymous users.
We will release four datasets in order to offer a large spectrum of possible analyses:
Aggregate communication between cell towers;
Mobility traces: fine resolution dataset;
Mobility traces: coarse resolution dataset;
Communication sub-graphs.
  
How to access the data

Go to http://www.d4d.orange.com/user/register
Confirm your e-mail address
Submit your 250-words proposal at http://www.d4d.orange.com/compete/form
Receive the access key within a week
 

Prizes

Best Overall: prize for the best project on Scientific and Development aspects.
Best Scientific: prize for a project proposing an innovative methodology, a new question addressed and relevant original findings.
Best Development Insight: prize for the most "practical" project, addressing a significant question with a real potential for application in the field.
Best Visualisation: prize for the clearest and most appealing visual representation. This prize will be awarded only if a project's presentation has visibly demonstrated considerable creative effort.
The "Best Overall" winner will be awarded with a US$ 3,000; the other prize winners will each receive a US$ 1,000. One person from each winning team will be invited, expenses paid, to participate to the results presentation at the NetMob Conference to be held in May 2-3, 2013 at MIT (www.netmob.org).

Committee

Professor Vincent Blondel, University of Louvain (UCL), Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium - Chairman
Professor Francis Akindes, Université de Bouaké, Bouaké, Ivory Coast
Mr William Hoffman, Head of Telecom industry, World Economic Forum, New York, USA
Mrs Mari-Noëlle Jégo-Laveissière, Head of Orange Labs, Paris, France
Mr Robert Kirkpatrick, Head of Global Pulse, United Nations, New York, USA
Mr Chris Locke, Managing director GSMA Development Fund, GSMA, London, UK
Professor Alex (Sandy) Pentland, Medialab, MIT, Cambridge, USA

To learn more http://www.d4d.orange.com/learn-more