Remote data collection for food security and economic vulnerability: PART 2 – Implementation guidelines

The Information Age – characterized by significant advances in the information technology sector and by the creation of an interconnected network of people and communities – has brought about a social revolution. It has also made gathering information about people and places relatively simple, cheap and efficient. Some of the most valuable companies in the world have acquired vast amounts of money and power by collecting, storing and analysing data about people in order to predict what they want to see, eat, buy, etc.