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data.org Announces its New Executive Director, Danil Mikhailov
A leader in Data Science for Social Impact, Danil will lead data.org’s vision to shape the social impact field.
The data.org team expands today, welcoming our new Executive Director, Danil Mikhailov, effective January 8, 2021!
Danil comes to data.org with over twenty years of experience setting up multiple start-ups and leading work across a …
How Can Data Science Drive Equitable Growth and Recovery? Our $10M Challenge Offers Some Insights into the Future.
In January of this year, data.org, in partnership with the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and The Rockefeller Foundation, launched an ambitious idea: a $10M Challenge to find and fund the most promising inclusive growth data science projects around the world. Since then, COVID-19 has upended how we work and live, killing over 1.3M people …
How We Can Tackle Housing Insecurity through the Power of Data Science
The New America team has been driving an effort to visualize the scale and breadth of housing instability and displacement across the United States, while also telling the stories of communities impacted by this loss. Initially, The Rockefeller Foundation connected them to DataKind so that they could compile a Housing Loss Index, pulling in normalized eviction and …
data.org Issues an Open Call for $10M Inclusive Growth and Recovery Challenge
Challenge Will Reward Scalable and Breakthrough Projects that use Data Science to Support Inclusive Growth and Recovery
NEW YORK, NY, May 19, 2020 – Today, data.org issued an open call for breakthrough ideas that harness the power of data science to help people and communities rebound and remain resilient in the wake of …
DataKind’s Approach, Weaving Together Disparate Worlds, More Needed Than Ever
Call for Entries: Data Science Breakthroughs for an Inclusive Recovery
The fight against COVID-19 underscores how interconnected our world has become. At the same time, the pandemic has also exposed and exacerbated many existing challenges facing economies, and the fragility of micro and small businesses. As we look to the future, there is an opportunity to build a stronger and more …
Rockefeller, Mastercard Team up to Leverage Data Science for Social Impact
On Thursday, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth unveiled data.org, a platform for partnerships that aims to build the field of data science for social impact.
Rockefeller Foundation and Mastercard Are Leveraging Advanced Data for Social Impact
The Rockefeller Foundation and Mastercard announced at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos on Thursday that they are restarting data.org on the same platform as data.org, the organization started by U2’s Bono and a group of social entrepreneurs and anti-poverty activists in 2002.
Data (Debt, AIDS, Trade, Africa) eventually …
data.org: Our Renewed Commitment to Building the Field of Data Science for Social Impact
For over a hundred years, data has helped The Rockefeller Foundation diagnose root causes to problems and surface solutions that improve lives. Data drove the development of Public Health, Social Security, the Green Revolution, and Impact Investing.
Today, advances in data gathering, management, and analysis have led to a data science …
A Data Revolution for All
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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 …
Using Data-Driven Insights to Help Revive a Historic New Orleans Neighborhood
The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth data fellows program is leveraging public and private data-driven insights to help create a more complete picture of spending power in low- and middle-income neighborhoods.
In February 2019, the Center gathered more than 60 Mastercard data scientists in a 36-hour “Datathon” to do a deep dive to support inclusive growth …
How Data Science Can Help Boost College Graduation Rates
A data philanthropy project is helping one university identify students at risk of dropping out – and intervene before it’s too late.