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This playbook offers ideas, best practices, resources, and contextual learning associated with establishing a holistic platform that can nurture purpose-driven data practitioners.
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Introduction
Learn how to use this playbook, its goals, and target audience.
Read critical supply and demand insights of the data talent for the social impact landscape. These helped design the India Data Capacity Accelerator (IDCA) programme to bridge gaps and catalyse the ecosystem for data for social impact (DSI).
In 2020, data.org conceptualised the Capacity Accelerator Network as a first-of-its-kind initiative to create a “Network of Networks” to advance capacity building in the field of data and AI for social impact.
Discover the design, delivery, and lessons learned by three academic partners in implementing training programmes for undergraduate, postgraduate, and professional development levels of learning.
The India Data Capacity Accelerator curates one-year fellowship opportunities for professionals with social impact organisations on innovative projects leveraging climate and health data.
This section highlights select projects undertaken by IDCA fellows, showcasing their diverse contributions to solving critical challenges in the social impact sector.
This section delves into the personal and professional journeys of select learners and IDCA data fellows.
This section presents the overarching Theory of Change framework and key metrics established to measure the target outcomes of the IDCA, as well as continuously tweak the various components of the programmes, as needed, based on feedback.
Read the valuable learnings that the IDCA journey has yielded ranging from programme alignment with student motivation, coordination tips to the need for interdisciplinary approaches.