D4D-Senegal: The Second Mobile Phone Data for Development Challenge

TL;DR

The paper introduces the D4D-Senegal challenge, providing detailed mobile phone datasets to facilitate research on socio-economic development and mobility patterns in Senegal.

Contribution

It offers three comprehensive datasets derived from Call Detail Records, enabling novel analysis of mobile communication and mobility for development research.

Findings

Datasets cover over 9 million users' call and text data.

Includes antenna traffic, fine-grained mobility, and coarse-grained mobility data.

Supports socio-economic development studies in Senegal.

Abstract

The D4D-Senegal challenge is an open innovation data challenge on anonymous call patterns of Orange's mobile phone users in Senegal. 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 Senegalese population. Participants to the challenge are given access to three mobile phone datasets. This paper describes the three datasets. The datasets are based on Call Detail Records (CDR) of phone calls and text exchanges between more than 9 million of Orange's customers in Senegal between January 1, 2013 to December 31, 2013. The datasets are: (1) antenna-to-antenna traffic for 1666 antennas on an hourly basis, (2) fine-grained mobility data on a rolling 2-week basis for a year with bandicoot behavioral indicators at individual level for about 300,000 randomly sampled users, (3) one year of coarse-grained mobility data at arrondissement level with bandicoot behavioral indicators at individual level for about 150,000 randomly sampled users