Search Results for: requirements

  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...

Looking across the digital landscape, no vertical represents a larger opportunity for innovation and improvement than the civic and social sector verticals. While people around the world use their computers and mobile devices to hail a taxi, deposit money at their banks, book travel and restaurant reservations and much, much...

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...

[Originally posted on GrandChallenges.org, we thought this is worth another look: a search for solutions that improve the feedback loop to ensure that the voices of small farmers are actually heard and that their feedback is properly incorporated into development programs.] “Smallholder farmers should be full participants in defining, implementing,...

In our introductory post for the topic of data privacy we noted the weight and speed of technological change combining for a new kind of pressure on organizations. To that we can add the pressure that is also on (or should be on) the regulatory environment to keep up. Youth...

Evaluating your organization’s programs is not trivial, but it’s necessary—and well within reach. Laura Quinn and Andrew Means bring theory down to shoe leather with a real-time case study that demonstrates not only how to measure nonprofit performance, but also how to incorporate the correct software tools (and use of them)...

Born out of 1950’s moon shots, our modern tech identity is understandably replete with technology as the wonderful, sole solution, followed by success, for sure, but also by a bunch of Frankenstein’s monsters, which we then try to fix with more technology. We knew the folly of this back then;...

"Markets For Good aims to foster a robust conversation about how people in the social sector can better generate, share, and use information to make better decisions and improve lives."

[Hat tip to: Aspen Institute Program On Philanthropy And Social Innovation (PSI) and PSI’s Nonprofit Data Project] Today, President Obama issued an Executive Order — Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government Information Our take at Markets For Good? It was big news when the President’s FY 2014...

What are we really asking for when we require nonprofits to produce data on performance, effectiveness and impact? While the surface logic is clear – we need to know this information – the full context and set of assumptions surrounding the request bears closer examination. Laura Quinn, founder of Idealware,...