Francisco was invited to deliver a seminar at the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis Seminar Series. His talk focused on the use of human mobility data extracted from smartphones to develop population-level estimates. The talk focus on recent work that he has done in collaboration with Elisabetta Pietrostefani and Rodgers Iradukunda estimating internal population displacement in Ukraine during the Russia’s full-scale invasion. This work has aimed at contributing to supporting IOM - UN Migration humanitarian assistance efforts.
This encompasses the broader idea of DEBIAS to produce bias-adjusted estimates of mobility from digital technology.