Facebook is also trying to tackle the connectivity from another angle: the company has hosted a hackathon in Indonesia's capital, Jakarta, focused specifically on creating apps that are more data-efficient for markets where decent data connectivity is in shorter supply or is too expensive.
IAU protocol is that discovery credit for a minor planet goes to whoever first submits a report to the MPC with enough positional data for a decent orbit determination, and that the credited discoverer has priority in naming it.
But decent data are yet to come.Such information as there is, though, looks pretty bad.
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer Projjol Banerjea told me that while there's "decent data" available for online advertisers targeting desktop users, things are shakier on the mobile side: "The majority of data available in the market tends to be fairly poor quality".
Having solved that argument with some decent data, he tells me that he's now moving on to Twitter.
It provides a map of Wi-Fi hotspots (both free and paid) with data on how decent their connections are, and the locations they're at.
Straight Statistics will give you a thousand examples of journalists taking those numbers and running with them in completely the wrong direction, but you don't have to go too far to find decent data journalism taking place.
Why did Soca not give all the physical evidence in the form of the original hard drives to the Met? "The Yard and Soca need to provide an urgent explanation as to why the latter is still sitting on a bank of data that any decent police investigator would require to do a proper job".
Plenty of psychiatrists in private practice accept no insurance at all, though it is not clear how many; their professional organizations claim to have no recent or decent data on the percentage of people in private practice who take cash on the barrelhead, write people a receipt and send them off to their insurance company to request out-of-network reimbursement if they have any at all.
Still, if you're on plan with decent data but crappy minutes, this might be worth looking into.
So far the Ground Truth project covers 31 nations - places where there was already decent data Google could license to use as the foundations for its process.
