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The math is simple: The cost of solving the world’s most critical problems – poverty, hunger, disease, inequality, climate change – runs into the trillions of dollars. Yet the world’s …

The Rockefeller Foundation deeply believes in the potential for data science to improve people’s well-being and we’re excited to incorporate it into how we work as a foundation and how …

We’re living in a time of massive potential to use data science and AI for the greater good, yet the world’s problems only seem to be mounting. Data and algorithms …

International Women’s Day is an occasion to celebrate the great progress made by women in tech innovating at the frontiers of global development. But as we take stock of how …

I enjoyed a front row seat at the 111th Winter Meeting of the National Governors Association in Washington, DC.  The event brought together dozens of governors from U.S. states and …

Today, even the most remote areas of our planet can be observed without the need to ever set foot on foreign land. Advances in remote sensing combined with AI-analysis allow …

Last June, NRDC announced a partnership with the City and County of Denver as part of a bold effort – Denver’s Food Action Plan 2020. The Food Action Plan is …

The history of the expression “exploring the frontier,” is a history dominated by the stories of men. For most of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, especially in the United States, …

The World Economic Forum isn’t a university, but many at the Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland proudly claim “alumni” status: throughout the conference last week I heard “this is …

While private-sector businesses have been building and deploying data science capabilities for many years in the tech age, most organizations in the non-profit, civic, and public sectors are far behind. …