The origins of the expression “nothing about us, without us” are unclear, but the sentiment resonates clearly for Dr. Vukosi Marivate, an associate professor and the ABSA Chair of Data Science at the University of Pretoria, one of Africa’s top universities. 

For years, internet measurement has focused on application performance and download speeds, but a more modern evaluation is needed that takes into account our reliance on connectivity for access to education, health care, employment, and beyond.

It has now been almost two decades since the original launch of data.org, a non-profit that marshaled $100 billion in debt forgiveness for poor countries, and another $50 billion in contributions for health and development. In a world with more data and data-science expertise than ever, it’s time to revive…

The Observatorio Metropolitano de Agua para Lima-Callao was co-designed with community leaders to make government data more accessible and combine it with user-generated information to fill existing gaps.

Four community-based organizations (CBOs) tackle four different sets of challenges, brought together by a shared vision: a data system that is integrated and responsive to their needs. 

Community Lattice uses data science to identify and mitigate environmental risk, including with their environmental records screening tool.

Instead of thinking in a structural, sustainable, long-term way about the biggest problems facing our world, we too often try to solve the world’s problems with new technologies implemented as quick fixes.

Despite good intentions, data is sometimes collected, analyzed and used in ways that can replicate or even amplify existing injustices and inequalities.

For the general public, awareness of the world’s Sustainable Development Goals is limited. For the government, the challenge is finding the capacity to solve them. The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data works to re-skill the existing civil servant workforce.

New York, NY​ (January 19, 2021) ⎼ ​Today, data.org announced the eight global awardees of the $10 million Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge. Launched in partnership with the​ ​Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth​ and ​The Rockefeller Foundation​, the Challenge will tackle society’s greatest challenges by harnessing the power of data…

Our mission at data.org is to be a platform for partnerships – to provide a clear pathway for people, organizations, and sectors to come together to apply data science for social impact.

Tens of thousands of activists, innovators, and world leaders converged on Glasgow for COP26, a global climate conference aimed at accelerating the pursuit of net-zero emissions and holding Earth’s temperature increase to 1.5 degrees by 2050.