Continuing highlights from last week’s Global Philanthropy Forum, two more to consider in the context of how the social sector can build a better information infrastructure, i.e. a better platform upon which we can manage data and innovate to gain a few good steps on the problems we’re trying to solve.
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Mayur Patel, Vice President of Strategy and Assessment for the Knight Foundation talks about data as an asset. If data continues to evolve into a dominant and highly fungible currency of our time, what is the responsibility of philanthropy?
Robert Kirkpatrick, Director, UN Global Pulse, Office of The Secretary-General takes us into the actual workings of big data. What can we do with it today in the social sector?