One of the biggest issues in effectively using “Data for Good” and “AI for Good” is in the vagueness of the terms themselves. They treat all efforts as similar by the mere fact that they use “data” and seek to do something “good”.

There is huge potential for data science and AI to play a productive role in advancing social impact. However, the field of “data for good” is not only overshadowed by the public conversations about the risks rampant data misuse can pose to civil society, it is also a fractured and …

Why Data science, an unknown term a decade ago, is now inexorably linked to our daily lives. Data about the spaces we live in, the streets we travel, the food we eat, the air we breathe, the purchasing choices we make, are collected and stored and analyzed to predict what future …

By 2030, will most of the AI systems in use employ ethical principles focused primarily on the public good? 68% of global experts believe they will not. That’s the headline result of a non-scientific, non-random sampling conducted by Pew Research Center and Elon’s Imagining the Internet Center. It’s the crux of …

Do you share health, social services, or other community information with partners? Over the last decade, there’s been great progress in the number of providers sharing multi-sectoral health, social services, and other community data to improve individual and community-level health. Governments, philanthropies, not-for-profits, payers, healthcare systems, and other public and private …

“We need systemic change in our interconnected world and technologists can help deliver it,” said Danil Mikhailov, Executive Director of data.org, in his keynote speech to open the 2021 Good Tech Fest. But what exact steps do we need to take in order to build the field of data science to deliver …

Instead of dialing 911 for emergency assistance, what if you could dial 999 for the cash you need to feed your family and buy supplies during a crisis? Imagine a world in which you, along with thousands of others, could rapidly and accurately be identified as someone needing assistance, and …

data.org invites the global Good Tech Fest audience to reimagine data science for transformative social change FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (May 17, 2021): data.org, with generous sponsorship from The Rockefeller Foundation, will take the stage this May 18-19 at Good Tech Fest to deliver a keynote address and host six workshop sessions exploring unique approaches to …

What can we learn from holding a competitive global funding challenge that elicited ideas from 108 countries? That was the focus of a recent webinar about the data.org Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge. The Challenge originated from the vision of data.org’s founding partners, the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and The Rockefeller Foundation. Both …

Community Lattice, one of the data.org Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge award awardees, advances community development by equipping people with the data and resources they need to create economically sustainable, socially equitable, and resilient places. They work primarily with underserved urban and rural communities throughout the U.S. to identify and overcome …

Cloud computing grants will accelerate the impact of organizations solving global environmental challenges New York, NY | April 22, 2021 — data.org is pleased to announce the award of $100,000 in cloud computing resources to social impact organizations tackling global environmental challenges. These grants were made possible by Microsoft AI for Earth, …