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March 20, 2013
In this edition of “Notes From The Field,” Catalina Escobar, Co-Founder and Executive director of the nonprofit consultancy Makaia, describes the ICT (Information and Communications Technologies) challenges facing nonprofits today and introduces a new web platform for data sharing, Nodo Ká. …
March 18, 2013
The Gates Foundation and Markets For Good have announced a new Grand Challenge of Data Interoperability for ideas that connect data to inform social action.
March 11, 2013
Markets for Good introduces a new theme: technology. Specifically,”What do we need to build an upgraded information infrastructure, from the perspective of technologists and information intermediaries?” Let’s try a quick thought experiment for context. What’s in a Meme? A meme is “an idea, behavior, style or usage that spreads from person to person within a […]
March 5, 2013
How is technology drawing us closer to meeting needs on the groun? We count on it to connect us in ways not previously possible, but the recurring question is, “What are we doing with it?” Daniel Ben Horin surveys this landscape through the dual lenses of data and technology for Markets For Good. Daniel founded […]
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, in partnership with Liquidnet for Good, is looking for groundbreaking ideas to address a significant, but solvable, problem: increasing the interoperability of data for social good. Each Winner to Receive $100,000 Grant Why? Data sets are often isolated, fragmented and hard to use. Many organizations manage data with multiple […]
Obviously, this is not a demand curve. (left) It could be seen as a “need” curve. David Bonbright takes us here, looking underneath supply and demand at the current state of constituent feedback and the need to increase and sustain the market conditions that can, in turn, generate the feedback we need for high-quality programming […]
February 27, 2013
Originally published by Impatient Optimists … Last month, the Aspen Institute hosted a forum where they released a new report entitled “Information for Impact: Liberating Nonprofit Sector Data.” The report by researchers Beth Noveck and Daniel Goroff focuses on how the U.S. currently collects, digitizes, and distributes data about charities through an annual reporting return […]
February 26, 2013
Gisli Olafsson, Emergency Response Director at NetHope describes a large-scale project underway that is using open data to transform and coordinate humanitarian crisis response: the Open Humanitarian Initiative. If you’re involved in humanitarian work and/or crisis response, feel free to add your comment here on ways that you’re working with open data or seeing it […]
February 25, 2013
Amid the rampant “datafying” of things, we would like to keep cool heads as we witness the (welcome) proliferation of tools and platforms and attempt to place them on a landscape of utility. This particular moment is a marked evolution as the web catches up with history to discover that effective and honest storytelling is […]
February 20, 2013
This paper, offered in full text for Markets For Good, was originally published by Alliance Magazine. Many thanks to the author, Buzz Schmidt, and to Caroline Hartnell, Editor of Alliance Magazine. The paper proposes in detail a version of an upgraded information infrastructure for the social sector – squarely taking up the central questions […]
