Colocated with NetMob 2024, we are launching the NetMob 2024 Data Challenge. The NetMob 2024 Data Challenge seeks to foster competition centered on extracting and utilizing insights from mobility data. Beyond academic progress, the goal of this year’s challenge is to cultivate a global environment where enthusiasm for analyzing mobility data can thrive alongside practical development objectives. Specifically, it targets countries in the Global South, aligning with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Netmob partners with Spectus for the 2024 Data Challenge to publish aggregated mobility dataset for four countries: Mexico, Colombia, Indonesia, and India. The data will cover the year 2019 and there are two datasets included in this challenge:

• Population Density Data: This dataset describes the daily presence of mobile users, providing insights into the number of devices detected at specific locations on a daily basis. This will be aggregated by day at geohash 3 and 5 levels.
• Origin-Destination Matrix Data: This dataset describes the flow of devices between two consecutive stops within a single day. The locations are aggregated to geohash 3 and geohash 5, offering detailed movement patterns of mobile users.