Abstract
The Data for Refugees (D4R) Challenge resulted in many insights related to the movement patterns of the Syrian refugees within Turkey. In this chapter, we summarize some of the important findings, and suggest policy recommendations for the main areas of the challenge. These recommendations are sometimes broad suggestions, as the policy interventions involve many factors that are difficult to take into account. We give examples of such issues to help policy-makers.
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This work is partially supported by an MIT-Boğaziçi University MISTI grant to Alex Pentland and Albert Ali Salah. The authors thank Türk Telekom, Boğaziçi University, and TÜBİTAK for their support with the Data for Refugees Challenge. This work does not represent the official view of any institutions. We further thank Arsev Umur Aydınoğlu, Banu Günel Kılıç, H. Şebnem Düzgün, A. Seza Doğruöz for their comments.
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Salah, A.A. et al. (2019). Policy Implications of the D4R Challenge. In: Salah, A., Pentland, A., Lepri, B., Letouzé, E. (eds) Guide to Mobile Data Analytics in Refugee Scenarios. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12554-7_25
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