Tag: nonprofit
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Data Science, Startups, and Sex Trafficking
What is Sex Trafficking? It is a form of human trafficking and according to Wikipedia, human trafficking is the trade in humans, most commonly for the purpose of sexual slavery, forced labor or commercial sexual exploitation for the trafficker or others; or for the extraction of organs or tissues, including surrogacy and ova removal; or…
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Data For Good
We can no longer continue to build development projects without thinking about data, anymore than we could without thinking about a budget. By Jake Porway of DataKind. This is another good video about the the social problems that DataKind is hoping to solve. Source: Code For America: Big Data For The Public Good
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Data Without Borders is now DataKind
The Non-Profit Organization Data Without Borders has renamed itself to DataKind. Here is the official announcement. DataKind is an organisation that matches data from non-profit and government organisations with data scientists. DataKind hosts weekend DataDives and they are planning to build a DataCorps. See a previous post, Use Data Science to Help The World, to…
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Use Data Science to Help The World (Data Without Borders)
Data Without Borders Jake Porway started Data Without Borders because he attended a hack-a-thon and the groups came up with apps that didn’t really better the world very much. I believe he used the word, “unfulfilling” to describe the apps. He decided to create a way to provide organizations (Government or non-profit) with access to…