May 30, 2014
Preparing for the Future We’re Working to Bring About
Lucy Bernholz shares forward-thinking insights into the role regulation and law must play for the development and use of data.
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May 20, 2014
Why the DATA Act Matters
The US Digital Accountability and Transparency Act is a bold bid to transform government spending information from disconnected documents into open data.
January 7, 2014
Dealing Your Own Best Hand (Unlocking Data From Silos)
We’re now far along into the narrative on how data will “change the way we live and work.” Further, that narrative is beginning to develop into more than an abstract promise, as we see examples and case studies chronicled regularly in such sources as The Harvard Business Review and the Stanford Social Innovation Review. But, […]
March 18, 2013
The Grand Challenge of Data Interoperability
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.
October 22, 2012
Children’s Parties and the Demise of the Soviet Union
GlobalGiving CEO Mari Kuraishi speaks her view on the explicit and implicit structures that would define a new information infrastructure for the social sector.
October 3, 2012
Let Our Data Define Us – Part II
Lucy Bernholz outlines a new definition for the sector at the forefront of taking on our biggest challenges.
October 2, 2012
Welcome to the Markets for Good Conversation
Brian Walsh of Liquidnet writes, “We hope that this site will serve as the ‘virtual water cooler’ for a sustained, thoughtful conversation about what is needed to improve the social sector’s ability to generate, share, and use information.”
Let Our Data Define Us – Part I
In the first of a two-part post, Lucy Bernholz issues a challenge to the social sector: discover the potential in our data and change the way we use it.