Data Philanthropy
Below are all our blog posts with the tag "Data Philanthropy"

Data for Climate Action: Global Pulse at COP21
This week and next, negotiators and world leaders gather in Paris for the 21st Conference of the Parties on climate change (COP21) with the aim of reaching a new global

Data Innovation for Policy Makers: Conference Proceedings
In August 2014, the United Nations Secretary-General set up an Independent Expert Advisory Group on the Data Revolution for Sustainable Development which in turn came up with recommendations on how

Guest Post: Data For Good, Challenges of Combining all that Data
This guest post was written by JoAnn C. Stonier, EVP/Chief Information Governance & Privacy Officer for MasterCard Worldwide. She has been recognized as an expert in the field of financial

Interview: Using Mobile Phone Data to Estimate Food Security
UN World Food Programme (WFP), Global Pulse, Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium and Real Impact Analytics recently collaborated on a project to analyse the potential use of mobile phone

Establishment of Data Privacy Advisory Group
As attention to data privacy and protection continues to grow, Global Pulse is pleased to announce the establishment of a Data Privacy Advisory Group, that brings together public and private

Mapping the Next Frontier of Open Data: Corporate Data Sharing
This guest blogpost is a follow-up to the recently hosted Responsible Data Forum on Private Sector Data Sharing, and feeds into our ongoing efforts to conceptualize "data philanthropy" as a

Responsible Data Forum on Private Sector Data Sharing – Event Summary
This post is crossposted at The Engine Room and Data & Society Research Institute. On July 24th, approximately 30 experts from private sector, academia, civil society, law, and philanthropy convened

Interview: Telecom Italia’s Big Data Challenge
Telecom Italia's "Big Data Challenge" was an online call for developers, researchers and designers from all over the world to come up with new big data services and applications. Telecom

Sifting Through, and Making Sense of, Big Social Data
Global Pulse is very pleased to officially announce a data philanthropy partnership with DataSift – a social data platform that enables aggregation and filtering of social media posts to extract