PhD student Dave Blair considers it a tremendous privilege to contribute to the fight against modern day slavery. Read more >>
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Full Speed Ahead for Open Ag Data
Last week, hundreds of innovators gathered at the World Bank IFC Center to brainstorm about how Open Data can be harnessed to help meet the challenge of sustainably feeding nine billion people by 2050. Read more >>
Who Stole My Cow? Open Data and Praedial Larceny
Relevant and timely access to data for not only policy makers and data scientists, but also farmers, innovators and other intermediaries, will help create the solutions needed to prevent threats to food security. Read more >>
Shared Ag Data is a Secured Future for Vulnerable Populations
Ag data provides critical information that help the lives of the primary producers who feed the nation. Read more >>
USAID in the Middle East: Using Data to Improve Regional Water Management (Part 1)
Developers for Development: The Evolution of the Food Security Open Data Challenge
USAID is building its first data initiative around food security. All backgrounds and interests are welcome; participants need not be an expert in food security nor in software. Read more >>
Doing More for Development through Inclusivity
This weekend, volunteers will virtually collaborate with USAID staff during the Agency’s first crowdsourcing effort. Volunteers will work online to review Agency data on specific USAID economic growth activities, and help code that data with geographic information to help the Agency map its impact. This type of public engagement builds upon new developments at the [...]
Googling Google on my way to the Open Government Partnership
On the sidelines of this week’s UN General Assembly, I experienced the “Power of Open.” Across town, at Google’s New York headquarters, I joined other U.S. and foreign government officials, high-tech entrepreneurs and executives, NGO activists as well as public and private donors to support the launch of the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The participants [...]
200 Years of Global Health in 4 Minutes
By: Ryan Cherlin Let’s be honest, statistics can be boring and oftentimes intimidating. It’s unfortunate because behind every statistic there is an incredible story to be told. While statisticians are not generally known for their charismatic personalities, Hans Rosling has done the impossible—he discovered a way to unearth compelling stories that are often lost in [...]
