Empowering Communities Through Data Learn About Us Volunteer Get Support Donate Who Are We? Data For Good is a collective of do gooders, who want to use their powers for good, and not evil, to help make our communities better through data. We are a national not for profit organization, with chapters across the county, […]
Data for Good – Vancouver | Data professionals for Non-profits
Data for Good Vancouver, BC connects skilled data professionals with local non-profits. Let's using data to create positive change.
Open North – Building trust in data, for the common good
Open North is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the common good. Working alongside governments and civic-minded organizations of all sizes, we provide data expertise to enhance decision-making, drive innovation, optimize public and civic services, and address society's most pressing challenges. Our work focuses on building the capacity of organizations to make better decisions about managing their data so that it is useful, actionable, secure, and trustworthy throughout its entire lifecycle.
Democratizing Data
Democratizing Data builds a community-driven data ecosystem by identifying how datasets are used and reducing barriers to accessing high-quality public data. The initiative enhances the discoverability, usability, and relevance of data for researchers, policymakers, and stakeholder communities. A suite of tools and strategic partnerships supports this work by connecting users to the data, insights, and networks needed to inform decisions and generate impact.
How Open Data Is Transforming City Life
Start a business. Manage your power use. Find cheap rents, or avoid crime-ridden neighborhoods. Cities and their citizens worldwide are discovering the power of “open data”—public data and information available from government and other sources that can help solve civic problems and create new business opportunities.
We Need A New Kind Of Data Rights
Associational data rights would empower communities to reclaim power from Big Tech
MyData
The human-centric approach to data is aimed at a fair, sustainable, and prosperous digital society. In such a society, people get value from their data and set the agenda on how it is used. And for organisations, the ethical use of data is always the most attractive option.
The Open Data Challenge Series
A series of seven challenge prizes to generate innovative and sustainable open data solutions to social challenges
Living in Data: A Citizen's Guide to a Better Information Future (Paperback)
Jer Thorp’s analysis of the word “data” in 10,325 New York Times stories written between 1984 and 2018 shows a distinct trend: among the words most closely associated with “data,” we find not only its classic companions “information” and “digital,” but also a variety of new neighbors—from “scandal” and “misinformation” to “ethics,” “friends,” and “play.”To live in data in the twenty-first century
Data Transfer Initiative
Home page for the Data Transfer Initiative, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting data transfers
Feminist Data Manifest-No
1. We refuse to operate under the assumption that risk and harm associated with data practices can be bounded to mean the same thing for everyone, everywhere, at every time. We commit to acknowledging how historical and systemic patterns of violence and exploitation produce differential vulnerabilities for communities.
Data Feminism
Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to d...
Reframing our relation to our data | Ronen Tamari
From data as digital exhaust to data as digital trails to collective wisdom.
Movement Data Science: Practices for Working in Solidarity with Social Justice Efforts
Although many data scientists are eager to promote social justice, their efforts often fall short, and in some cases even exacerbate existing injustices. This gap between intentions and impacts follows from issues in how data scientists conceptualize their role in social justice efforts: they typically act as technicians, aiming to develop technical tools that will produce social justice. This default role generally results in depoliticized techno-fixes that fail to produce substantive changes. In this paper, we contribute “movement data science” as a framework to guide data scientists in taking on more productive and equitable roles in social justice efforts. Our framework is inspired by movement lawyering, a practice used by lawyers to situate themselves in grassroots social movements. Movement data science suggests that data scientists should ground their efforts to advance justice in sustained and solidaristic relationships with social movements. We contribute a process with four essential practices to help data scientists build these relationships and identify roles to play within specific social justice efforts. Movement data science does not provide a simple blueprint for data scientists to follow, but it can help them support social justice movements in substantive ways that go beyond attempting to solve injustices with technical tools.
The 8 Principles of Open Government Data (OpenGovData.org)
A set of principles of open government data developed by advocates on On December 7-8, 2007. The meeting, held in Sebastopol, California, was designed to develop a more robust understanding of why open government data is essential to democracy