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Those of you who follow Markets For Good on Twitter will have been enjoying our updates from The Skoll World Forum on Social Enterprise. We hope our 140 character or less comments were illuminating, but we will be doing a write up on the event and the prominent role that...

‘Big data is suddenly everywhere’ – we all know it, it’s why we read this very site. Be it as a member of the converted, or someone engaging the topic for the very first time, you just can’t deny that big data is everywhere. Furthermore, the value of big data...

‘More and more, the government sector is working to improve the quality of information—or evidence—it is using to formulate decisions and policy. This is what we call evidence-based policy.’ In a recent article by Jonathan Greenblatt & Scott Hartley in the Standard Social Innovation Review, they highlight how the US Government is...

In what can only be described as a huge step in storing and analysing data, Google, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn have teamed up to revolutionise MySQL. Put simply, MySQL is open source coding that allows users to build a relational database management system, like a shopping list or picture gallery – something...

If only 1 in 3 people have access to the Internet, as a global social community, what do we need to do about it? internet.org was founded last year with the aim to bring down the cost of connectivity as a means to tackle this problem head on. Last Thursday,...

‘We need a global conversation about data, social change, and digital civil society’ states Lucy Bernholz in a fascinating new blogpost. Lucy documents her recent travels to Beijing, China, and São Paolo, Brazil – two thriving cities in countries with similar attitudes to data, yet stark contrasts in position and ability to...

Abhishek Mehta, CEO of Treseta provides his views on the challenges of being an entrepreneur, whilst pinpointing the trends and the blind spots of big data. In the following article from Valentina Craft at Silicon Angle, Abhisnhek shares fascinating insight into data as fuel for what he calls “a new Darwinian moment.” ...

Beth Kanter, a regular contributor and friend of Markets For Good has returned from her travels to South By SouthWest Interactive Festival. In the following article featured on her blog, she reports back on a panel discussion titled: ‘What Social Media Analytics Can’t Tell You’. Chaired by Alexandra Samuel, the...

‘The Obama administration hopes to fight global warming with the geeky power of numbers, maps and even gaming-type simulations’ notes NPR. Operating under the idea that transparency and data mean more knowledge, which in turn leads to better decisions, Obama is putting climate change on our personal agendas.   —

 “I like the Millennium Development Goals because each and everyone one of them is measured.” With the MDG finish line rapidly approaching, we take a look back to statistician Hans Rosling in 2010, giving a wonderful interpretation of progress, using huge amounts of data and questioning how they should be interpreted....