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July 3, 2014
“With millions of Petabytes of structured and unstructured data being created each year, the volume will only continue to grow exponentially”, begins Daniel Newman in a recent Forbes article. This “leaves us as business leaders and consumers to figure out what potential lies herein.” Whatever that potential may be, he compares it to the emergence […]
June 27, 2014
Following on from our last post about data at the World Cup, which looked at Nike’s New Data Driven Football Jersey, we thought we would examine the role of data in performance management. In Information Week, Rob Kasabian reminds us that “it’s easy to overlook the fact that every kick, pass, steal, and goal is just one […]
June 23, 2014
International football is a multi-billion dollar industry that produces a tournament watched by an estimated 2.2 billion people, with 750 million tuning in for the World Cup Final 4 years ago in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is no surprise that the team here at Markets For Good is gripped with football fever. This led us […]
June 17, 2014
“If the geeks are to inherit the Earth, it’s positive that many are turning their coding skills to humanitarian ends – from voter e-registration to disaster management apps”. This article, featured in the Guardian Sustainable Business, provides a wonderful insight into the power of coding. Oliver Balch, the article’s author, introduces us to a brand new […]
June 11, 2014
Last week we officially kicked off the next phase of Markets For Good. Not only did we launch our brand new website – you can read all about the website’s new features here – but our founding partners at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Liquidnet hosted #MFGLive in Seattle, Washington; the largest gathering […]
May 31, 2014
We’ve been working hard over the last couple of months to revamp our website and introduce brand new features—many of which were recommended by our long-time readers. While the site may have gotten a redesign, our core mission remains the same: The purpose of Markets for Good is to increase the social sector’s capacity to […]
Does Markets for Good count as a social movement? Surely it cannot compare to the great social movements of the 20th century in terms of moral resonance or aspiration towards greater human dignity. But it is a collective, decadal effort to build a better world; perhaps someday history will judge it worthy to be called […]
May 30, 2014
Lucy Bernholz shares forward-thinking insights into the role regulation and law must play for the development and use of data.
May 29, 2014
Annika Small, CEO of Nominet Trust, in a piece from the Guardian examines all the hype that surrounds big data. Could it be another false hype, or a real value add to the social sector? And if so, how? Annika looks at the issue from a very practical point of view, sourcing interesting work being done by a […]
