Dear colleagues, I am writing to invite you to the Oxford Internet Institute's Symposium entitled, "Big Data and Development," <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=786> from September 15-September 16th at the Said Business School in Oxford, UK. Keynote speakers include: - Professor Bitange Ndemo <http://bitangendemo.me/>, Former Permanent Secretary of Kenya’s Ministry of Information and Communication, andLecturer at the University of Nairobi - Professor Alex (Sandy) Pentland <http://web.media.mit.edu/~sandy/>, Academic Director of Data-Pop Alliance, and Director of the MIT Human Dynamics Lab - Dr Linnet Taylor <http://www.uva.nl/over-de-uva/organisatie/medewerkers/content/t/a/l.e.m.taylor/l.e.m.taylor.html>, Fellow at the Department of International Development, University of Amsterdam We welcome the submission of abstracts for papers, panels, and demonstrations (deadline for submission is July 15). The conference is also open to a limited number of free registrations for people who wish to attend, but not present. You can learn more and register on our website <http://bigdatadevelopment.oii.ox.ac.uk/> and I would be grateful if you could circulate it further. Kind regards, Mark ------------------------------------------ Dr Mark Graham Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford Faculty Fellow The Alan Turing Institute Research Affiliate School of Geography and the Environment University of Oxford Visiting Fellow Department of Media and Communications London School of Economics and Political Science oii.ox.ac.uk/people/graham <http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/graham> | geospace.co.uk <http://www.geospace.co.uk> | Information Geographies <http://geography.oii.ox.ac.uk> | wikichains.org <http://www.wikichains.org> | @geoplace <http://twitter.com/geoplace> | zerogeography blog <http://www.zerogeography.net/> | Connectivity, Inclusion and Inequality Group <http://cii.oii.ox.ac.uk/> | GEONET <http://geonet.oii.ox.ac.uk> <http://twitter.com/geoplace>