Beth Kanter & Allison Fine authors of the new book The Smart Nonprofit
In this week’s podcast Andrew sits down with Beth Kanter & Allison Fine, authors of the new book The Smart Nonprofit.
Data Ethics and Security Event
We are increasingly collecting and utilizing data in our work. We must ensure that we are doing that as responsibly and securely as we can. In this half-day event, we will hear a roundtable discussion where the panel will explore issues around ethics and security that every impact organization should know. Our goal is to leave attendees with practical advice on how nonprofits can engage with digital security best practices.
De-Colonizing Data and Tech for Good
Here is a two-part episode on a panel discussion from the Good Tech Fest event De-Colonizing Data & Tech for Good.
Infrastructure for Philanthropy
This week I sit down with Chantal Forster, Executive Director of TAG, to talk about opportunities for digital transformation and data infrastructure in the philanthropic sector.
Funding Tech & Digital Transformation
This week I am replaying a conversation I had with Greg Baldwin, Founder of VolunteerMatch from our Funding Impact Tech & Digital Transformation event.
Data alone won’t solve our problems — asking the right questions will help – Stefaan G Verhulst
If I had only one hour to save the world, I would spend fifty-five minutes defining the questions, and only five minutes finding the answers,” is a famous aphorism attributed to Albert Einstein. Behind this quote is an important insight about human nature: Too often, we leap to answers without first pausing to examine our …
Case Study – How Data is helping to save a rural town – Kristi Mansfield with Alistair Ferguson
A story of data access and sharing to enable better, community-led decisions in Australia. Presentation with Alistair Ferguson, Founder of the Maranguka Initiative and Kristi Mansfield
A Playbook for Using Data Science and AI for Social Good Well – Rachel Wells
DataKind is a global nonprofit that harnesses the power of data science and AI in the service of humanity. We would love to openly introduce and share the DataKind Playbook: our globally accessible, living knowledge base that enables the reader to design, implement, and follow-up on a Data Science and AI for Good project following …
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Collected for Profit, Repurposed for Social Good: Using Advertising Data to Monitor International Development – Ingmar Weber
Most of the big internet companies, such as Facebook, Google, or Twitter, generate their revenue from targeted advertising. To offer advertisers with advanced targeting capabilities, these companies collect large amounts of user data to build elaborate profiles. Based on these profiles an advertiser can then choose to target only, say, female Facebook users living in …
Radical Data: The Emerging Movement in Data, Art and Activism – Jo Kroese
The “data science revolution” has been used to destabilize democracies, increase corporate and state power and make us buy more shoes. Resisting this are a group of activists, artists and collectives reappropriating data science in the name of citizens. For the last two years, data scientist and artist Jo Kroese has been researching and interviewing …
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