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Lucy Bernholz shares forward-thinking insights into the role regulation and law must play for the development and use of data.

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...

People are the core component of this discussion on information infrastructure. It’s easy to let the data conversation tend to topics of technology, collaboration and sector buzzwords. We need those; but, in parallel, we have to ask about the human capacity to carry out these big ideas. That said, we...

‘The idea is to try to give all of the information to help others to judge the value of your contribution; not just the information that leads to judgment in one particular direction or another’ – from Cargo Cult Science, a commencement address by Richard Feynman. This is the point of departure...

Christian Buckley, Founder & CEO of CollabTalk, argues for a better infrastructure when it comes to creating our own data management solutions – starting with the way we think. Siloed thinking, by definition, creates gaps in our ability to identify and solve the right problems based on consideration of the...

"Efforts to unlock and open 'big data' are great and sorely needed in the social sector, but if we can’t make sense of that data—if we can’t connect it with other data and turn it into useful information that is presented to the right people at the right time to…

Markets for Good is an effort to improve the system for generating, sharing, and acting upon data and information in the social sector. Our vision is of a social sector powered by information. Our practice is open conversation with you, our audience. To date, we’ve covered many topics on our...

Technical development of the first Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities (BRIDGE) release is currently about a half-way to completion. If you have been following the project you will know that BRIDGE aims to revolutionize data interoperability in the global social sector by uniquely identifying all the world’s NGOs in...

The Markets for Good web campaign was launched last October by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation CEO Jeff Raikes at the Social Capital Markets (SOCAP12) conference in San Francisco. A year on, we’d like to give you a recap of our progress and what we’ve learned so far. We’ll...

Markets For Good is pleased to welcome Mark Arnoldy, Executive Director of Nyaya Health,  a complex operation in that it operates on the front lines of a few themes we’ve covered: beneficiary insights, open data, nonprofit decision-making, and this month’s theme, data privacy, among others. It was Mark’s own experience...