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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 14, 2014
I first put a fitbit – a digital pedometer that tracks steps, calories burned, food intake, and other personal analytics data – on my wrist back in October. After some results from routine tests during my annual physical, my doctor informed me that my cholesterol was high. “Start exercising more and stop eating bacon cheese […]
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 11, 2014
In late 2006, we started charity: water with a goal of directly helping 100 million people get access to clean and safe drinking water by 2022. We knew we would never be able to deliver on this promise without data. We collect and evaluate three main types of data at charity: water. The first […]
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 7, 2014
Talking Data: Measurement with a message is the Social Impact Analysts Association’s 2014 Annual Conference, and we, at SIAA HQ, are very excited about it. We are inviting delegates working in the field of social impact measurement and analysis from across the globe to come together for two days of workshops, interactive activities and […]
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 29, 2014
Quite possibly, some NGO has discovered a great way to, say, prevent re-offending or improve literacy, but nobody else knows about it so their genius innovation doesn’t spread. Surely it’s unacceptable that people may miss out simply because research can’t be found and/or isn’t clear. The problem seems to be that, although NGOs conduct […]
