Measurement & Evaluation
The Beginning of Good Data Is the Definition of Terms
Making sure everyone at your organization captures, synthesizes, and communicates data in the same way is a worthy investment of time and resources.
Tag: Data
Technology
Code Switching Across the Social/Data Divide
Technology is leaving many mission-driven organizations behind, but a new breed of digital translator can help build the bridges between data, technology, and doing good.
Nonprofits & NGOs
How Adaptive Strategy Is Adapting
New developments from the disciplines of innovation, data science, and implementation management are teaching us that good strategy isn’t just about setting your destination and path, it’s also about how you execute and adjust over time.
Podcast
Technology
How Big Indicators Can Help Solve Global Problems
Planet Inc.’s Andrew Zolli explains how big data paired with big indicators will help us predict and respond to global crises.
Measurement & Evaluation
The Potential and Practice of Data Collaboratives for Migration
How private data sources, when leveraged responsibly and collaboratively, can provide insights for addressing the challenges and opportunities of migration.
Health
International Development Doesn’t Care About Patient Privacy
Global health has brushed aside human dignity—it’s time to place patients at the core.
Podcast
Technology
Data Privacy and Security: From Mandate to Mission
Stanford's Lucy Bernholz moderates a discussion on how social sector organizations can utilize the power of data while integrating critical concerns of security, transparency, and responsible governance into their culture.
Measurement & Evaluation
Creating a Data Culture
How nonprofit organizations can do a better job with their data.
Measurement & Evaluation
Will the Next Evaluation Breakthrough Come from Online Shopping?
A new approach to measurement has the potential to surface quicker, cheaper, better data about notoriously hard-to-measure social change.
Technology
Small Data for Big Impact
Small data can transform opportunities and quality of life for underserved communities, and help address the biases of big data.