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News

mit-tech-review
May 3rd, 2013

In the MIT Technology Review listing 2013 Breakthrough Technologies, Flowminder research is mentioned in Big Data from Cheap Phones as “A powerful demonstration…

sciencemag
June 20th, 2012

Flowminder co-founders Xin Lu and Linus Bengtsson are interviewed about their latest research in the Science Magazine article: Where Do People Flee When…

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Quotes

"The example from Haiti demonstrates how mobile data analysis could revolutionise disaster and emergency responses."

— World Economic Forum (2011) Big Data, Big Impact: New Possibilities for International Development, pg. 5

"[An] incredible application of available technology to saving lives – not just of value in developing countries."

— Dr. Richard Besser, ABC News chief health and medical editor