BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Measuring gender inequalities using web data - Ridhi Kashyap (Univ ersity of Oxford) DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180115T130000Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20180115T140000Z UID: DESCRIPTION:The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals call for m ember states to promote ‘gender equality and empower all women and girls ’ (SDG Goal 5). Despite the adoption of gender equality targets in inter national development frameworks\, monitoring progress towards gender equal ity\, particularly in less developed countries\, is significantly limited due to data gaps. Digital trace data from the web offers promise in this s etting for ‘nowcasting’\, or in other words generating real-time measu rements of social indicators in the present. In this talk\, I will present two examples of data innovation that illustrate how web data can be used for nowcasting development indicators related to gender equality. First\, I will show how Google search data for ultrasound technology (a preconditi on for prenatal sex selection) can be used to generate nowcasts of sex rat ios at birth in contexts such as India where official data reporting is la gging. Second\, I will describe how data from Facebook's advertisement pla tform\, which provides aggregate data on Facebook users by demographic cha racteristics covering the platform's over 2 billion users\, can be used to measure global gender gaps in internet and mobile phone access. \nSpeaker s:\nRidhi Kashyap (University of Oxford) LOCATION:Manor Road Building (Lecture Theatre)\, Manor Road OX1 3UQ URL: BEGIN:VALARM ACTION:display DESCRIPTION:Talk:Measuring gender inequalities using web data - Ridhi Kash yap (University of Oxford) TRIGGER:-PT1H END:VALARM END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR