In a world that is increasingly more connected, digital citizens actively or passively accept to transmit information, part of which is 'personal data'. This information is often collected and elaborated by third parties to infer further knowledge about users. The act of gathering the data is...

Migration is a top political priority for the European Union (EU). Data on international migrant stocks and flows are essential for effective migration management. In this report, we estimated the number of expatriates in 17 EU countries based on the number of Facebook Network users who are...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous effect on our societies on many levels: social trust, trust in institutions, satisfaction with democracy and economic hardship for many. An important step out of the predicament were vaccinations, which have become widely available and used within the...

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a tremendous effect on our societies on many levels: social trust, trust in institutions, satisfaction with democracy and economic hardship for many. An important step out of the predicament were vaccinations, which have become widely available and used within the...

The Social Media in Crisis Management Workshop was held in the European Crisis Management Laboratory (ECML) of the Joint Research Centre in Ispra, Italy, from 11 to 12 October 2016. The aim of the workshop was to investigate the potentiality of Social Media services in Crisis Management with...

In this report we describe the advancements on the Bioma Framework developed during year 2017. Given that the Bioma platform is quite mature, its core was not recently changed. So that the majority of changes concerns the implementation of the models developed in the platform. Moreover, during...

The recent availability of time series of Sentinel-2 imagery represents a significant technological step in the use of Earth Observation (EO) data for forest cover monitoring. The 5 days revisiting time (S-2 A and S-2B satellites) and the 10m spatial resolution imply the need for much larger...

Large agricultural commodity price swings observed in recent years have made the importance of accessible, timely, accurate and frequently updated price data more obvious. This study investigates the potential of innovative web and mobile phone technologies and alternative data collection...