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Grantee Profile: Open Data and Economic Ownership in West African Agriculture

In Profiles & Interviews by Krysten CrawfordDecember 6, 201845 Comments

Mobile technology is changing the way of life for millions of rural farmers across the West African country of Ghana. They receive texts with up-to-date crop prices, weather alerts, and advice about planting. Using electronic payment services, they now have …

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Grantee Profile: Algorithmic Risk Assessment in Pretrial Detention

In Profiles & Interviews by Krysten CrawfordSeptember 10, 2018Leave a Comment

When Hannah Sassaman heard that the City of Philadelphia was looking to use AI to help judges determine whether someone accused of a crime should be released before trial, she was instantly worried. “I knew that any data used to …

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Grantee Profile: Good Data Collaborative

In Profiles & Interviews by Krysten CrawfordJune 26, 20182 Comments

Like most businesses, the nonprofit sector loves data—or desperately wants to. But Laura Walker McDonald has a blunt message for leaders, donors, policymakers, researchers and service providers who see data as the elixir to doing good. Don’t, she says, collect …

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Grantee Profile: ImpactView

In Profiles & Interviews, Resources by Krysten CrawfordApril 24, 2018Leave a Comment

Two years ago, when the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) made electronic tax returns filed by nonprofits available for the first time in a searchable format, many celebrated what they saw as a new age of transparency in philanthropy. For Neville …

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Grantee Profile: Data Culture Project

In Profiles & Interviews, Resources by Krysten CrawfordApril 4, 2018Leave a Comment

To hear Rahul Bhargava tell it, too many people are afraid of data. “The first thing you feel is their trepidation,” says Bhargava, a research scientist at the MIT Center for Civic Media who speaks with organizations and workers about …

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Grantee profile: Data Orchard

In Profiles & Interviews, Resources by Krysten CrawfordJanuary 22, 201811 Comments

In early 2017, a small non-profit published a free online guide to help under-resourced organizations in the social sector make better use of their data. Sian Basker, one of the masterminds behind the guide, wasn’t sure if it would make …

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