Jan 28 2020
Perspective
It has now been almost two decades since the original launch of DATA.org, a non-profit that marshaled $100 billion in debt forgiveness for poor countries, and another $50 billion in …
Jan 24 2020
Video
In partnership with nonprofit organization DataKind, John Jay College was able to use predictive analytics to identify students at risk of dropping out and intervene with resources to support them, …
Jan 24 2020
Video
Meet Mike Muldoon, Director for the Innovative Finance initiative at The Rockefeller Foundation.
Jan 23 2020
Video
Data.org is a platform for partnerships to build the field of data science for social impact. We are focused on building capacity, providing training resources and sharing publicly available data …
Jan 23 2020
Perspective
For over a hundred years, data has helped The Rockefeller Foundation diagnose root causes to problems and surface solutions that improve lives. Data drove the development of Public Health, Social …
Jan 22 2020
Press Releases
$10 Million Challenge Launched to Help Crowdsource Solutions to Social Challenges DAVOS, Switzerland, January 23, 2020 - The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and The Rockefeller Foundation today announced data.org as a …
Dec 18 2019
Perspective
The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is one of the most effective ways of combatting poverty and inequality in the United States. The EITC supplements the earnings of low-income workers, …
Dec 10 2019
Perspective
Digital goods — a video, a song, a book, a network configuration, etc. — can be duplicated an unlimited number of times at near-zero marginal cost. This is what economists …
Dec 03 2019
Perspective
In response to concern about the impact of AI on society companies and civil society organizations have raced to write ethical frameworks to guide the development and use of these …
Dec 02 2019
Perspective
Despite their exclusion from mainstream conferences and gatherings, artificial intelligence and machine learning communities in Africa are growing and focusing on some of the continent’s most pressing issues. In August 2019, …