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August 15, 2014
“With so many challenges facing children trying to learn to read around the world, we want to provide more than our best intentions and best efforts.” For Room To Read, this means placing data at the centre of everything they do. For today’s News Roundup, we thought we would share their most recent video, […]
August 13, 2014
In today’s News Roundup, we are highlighting a new training programme for data scientists. Venture Beat, Business Cloud News, and The Wall Street Journal, have all recently ran articles about private companies, such as KPMG and Rackspace, are tackling the growing big data requirements by training a new generation of data scientists. KPGM, Rackspace and a variety of other companies […]
August 8, 2014
Technology “wears a hoodie”, whilst international development “wears cufflinks.” One is cool, fast moving and agile, while the other is big and slow. In this article, from the Stanford Social Innovation review, Chris Fabian and Robert Fabricant discuss how a simple adoption of shared principles and value systems can go a long way to […]
August 6, 2014
Earleir this week in Forbes, John Trammell CEO of Khorus, a business management software company, explains how the need for effective use of data is paramount to ensuring an organisation is aligned to current and future strategies set out by CEO’s. In a survey carried out by Khorus, Trammell highlights that “nearly all of […]
August 4, 2014
In June of this year, Markets For Good convened a two-day workshop, bringing together 70 individuals spanning the length and breath of the social sector. Hosted by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation in Seattle, the workshop focused on the development of the data and infrastructure that supports the social sector; click here for […]
July 31, 2014
As discussed in a previous article, ‘Internet of Things’ is quite possibly the buzzword of 2014. It’s estimated there will be 30 billion interconnected devices surrounding us as soon as 2020. With this plethora of new devices comes the prospect of a huge influx of big data. In this recent Forbes article Adrian Bridgwater questions […]
July 28, 2014
In a recent blog post by Alison Byrne Fields from Philanthropy News Digest, she discusses the potential impact a film can have on our society and the role of filmmakers in this process. Given we have an article in the pipeline from London’s Old Vic Theatre, we thought this would be a great […]
July 25, 2014
We all understand the importance of the Internet and the respective devices that connect to the web, yet Wojciech Borowicz argues in The Next Web our current breadth of understanding is not deep or wide enough. For those unsure, Internet of Things, IoT, simply refers to everyday objects that have the capability of connecting […]
July 16, 2014
“Who is funding whom, to do what?” Kelly Born of Hewlett Foundation asks this question in a recent blog post. It is a natural question for any Foundation, charity, entrepreneur, or business looking to enter a new market. Unfortunately the answer tends to be far more ambiguous for those entering the democracy reform space. […]
July 14, 2014
To most of us, when we think better data, we think better quality programs supported with better quality fundraising. But is this ubiquitous? We take a look back to a fascinating article in BloombergView, written by Cass R. Sunstein, which draws on evidence to the contrary. The premise of Sunstein’s article is that “large […]
