Data2X announced the winners of the Big Data for Gender Challenge, a competition that offers funding to research teams with innovative solutions to filling global gender data gaps. Through this challenge, Heath Henderson, assistant professor of economics, and a team of researchers from the International Food Policy Research Institute, Food and Agriculture Organization, and Makerere University Business School were awarded $100,000 for their project: “Gender and Mobile Money Networks.” The project seeks to use transaction-level data from mobile money users in Uganda to examine gender-related differences in mobile money access and usage.

Data2x is an initiative hosted by the United Nations Foundation that seeks to promote women’s empowerment by informing policy through improved collection of sex-disaggregated data and gender statistics.

—Dianna Gray, College of Business & Public Administration