QCRI awarded Facebook grant for project on privacy personas
07 Jan 2021 - 8:31
The Automatic Personal Generation team leading the project.
The Peninsula
Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) has been awarded a major research grant from Facebook for a new collaborative study examining digital privacy concerns in 21 Middle Eastern and North African (Mena) countries.
QCRI secured one of only five awards for their project titled “Privacy Personas in the Mena Region: A Large-Scale Analysis of 21 Countries” under Facebook’s ‘People’s Expectations and Experiences with Digital Privacy’ research call. The project outcome will be data-driven online personas of user segments based on social media privacy concerns and attitudes.
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ICT sector year in review 2020
The shifting of daily life online has been one of the most far-reaching consequences of the coronavirus pandemic. While it is not without its challenges, broad-based digitalisation has helped governments around the world to combat Covid-19, as well as created new growth opportunities for private companies.
A widely shared meme repeats the same image of a person sitting in front of a computer under a series of different headings: working, studying, watching TV, socialising and so on. For many, indeed, this has been the reality of 2020.
As the extent and gravity of the pandemic became clear in the early part of the year, most governments imposed some form of lockdown, typically involving a series of measures aimed at slowing the spread of the virus.