Digital and Computational Demography

This panel will build on the success of the previous panels - Big Data and Population Processes (2015-2018) and Digital Demography (2019-2022) - to help consolidate the field of Digital and Computational Demography, and promote exchange and collaboration between demographers as well as other social scientists interested in population, and computer scientists. The panel will further help forge links between demographers and population scientists and a growing, interdisciplinary community of computational social science. It will help advance the data revolution for sustainable development agenda, with a view to understanding how demographers and population scientists can contribute to leveraging the new sources of data and computational methods for understanding population and sustainable development processes. 

The goal of the panel is to explore demography in relation to the digital revolution along three axes: (1) examine the implications of digital transformations for population and sustainable development outcomes, e.g. linked to health, fertility and family, gender inequalities, and migration; (2) assess how digital trace and geospatial data sources, generated as by-products of technologies, can be repurposed for demographic research; (3) explore the demographic applications of computational methods, such as microsimulation, agent-based modelling and machine learning. 

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