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·Nov 12

From Trees to Forests: Reflections on Open Data Initiatives in Asia

By Michael Cañares I was fortunate to be invited to Civic Data Lab’s (CDL) celebration of open data for public good. The two-day conference brought together nearly 200 data scientists, activists, advocates, scholars, and enthusiasts at the India International Center in New Delhi on 6–7 November 2023. I first became…

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From Trees to Forests: Reflections on Open Data Initiatives in Asia
From Trees to Forests: Reflections on Open Data Initiatives in Asia

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Data Empowerment

·Mar 9

Government data is important for data empowerment

By Michael Cañares At the core of the data empowerment discussion is data. In our previous posts, we defined what we meant by data empowerment, provided three examples where we saw how data empowerment happens in practice, and outlined concrete steps to ensure that data empowers people. Implicit in these…

Government Data

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Government data is important for data empowerment
Government data is important for data empowerment
Government Data

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·May 4, 2022

How can we ensure that data powered positive deviance empowers people?

By Andreas Pawelke & Richard Heeks A new way to empower? Data powered positive deviance (DPPD) is a method that relies on both traditional and non-traditional data to identify grassroots solutions to complex development problems, such as deforestation, food insecurity and gender-based violence.

Positive Deviance

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How can we ensure that data powered positive deviance empowers people?
How can we ensure that data powered positive deviance empowers people?
Positive Deviance

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·Sep 20, 2021

Vaccine Questions and How Data Empowerment Happens

By Michael Cañares Recently, while lining up in a vaccination center where I live, I overheard a woman ask a healthcare frontliner what type of vaccine was on offer that day. The worker replied, “We don’t know until it comes, and it does not matter. …

Data Empowerment

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Vaccine Questions and How Data Empowerment Happens
Vaccine Questions and How Data Empowerment Happens
Data Empowerment

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·May 17, 2021

What we can learn from Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls about data stewardship

By Andreas Pawelke Winning six championships between 1991 and 1998, the 1990s Chicago Bulls were one of the most successful teams in US sports history. …

Data Empowerment

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What we can learn from Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls about data stewardship
What we can learn from Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls about data stewardship
Data Empowerment

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·Jan 28, 2021

For data empowerment, we need control of our data, not ownership. Here’s why.

By Michael Cañares In our last post, we discussed the importance of having control over our data. Others, meanwhile, have championed the competing model of data ownership. Here, we outline why control, not ownership, provides the surest path towards data empowerment. Ownership Versus Control Ownership relates to a full legal claim on property…

Data Ownership

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For data empowerment, we need control of our data, not ownership. Here’s why.
For data empowerment, we need control of our data, not ownership. Here’s why.
Data Ownership

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Jan 28, 2021

For data empowerment, we need control of our data, not ownership. Here’s why.

By Michael Cañares In our last post, we discussed the importance of having control over our data. Others, meanwhile, have championed the competing model of data ownership. Here, we outline why control, not ownership, provides the surest path towards data empowerment. Ownership Versus Control Ownership relates to a full legal claim on property…

Data Ownership

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For data empowerment, we need control of our data, not ownership. Here’s why.
For data empowerment, we need control of our data, not ownership. Here’s why.
Data Ownership

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·Nov 1, 2020

Individual, collective and intermediated: three roads to data empowerment

By Andreas Pawelke So far we’ve looked at how access to data can empower people and argued that ensuring people have actionable data is even more critical in the ‘trying times’ we find ourselves in. In this post, we’re diving deeper into the question of how to exercise control over…

Data Governance

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Individual, collective and intermediated: three roads to data empowerment
Individual, collective and intermediated: three roads to data empowerment
Data Governance

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·Sep 7, 2020

Why we need data empowerment in these trying times

By Michael Cañares For several months, all has been quiet on the data empowerment blog. Like the rest of the world, we were shocked when the pandemic hit. We put down our pencils, paused our publication schedule and spent time rethinking the topics we wanted to cover. COVID-19 changed everything. …

Covid-19

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Why we need data empowerment in these trying times
Why we need data empowerment in these trying times
Covid-19

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·Feb 3, 2020

How to ‘do’ data empowerment

By Andreas Pawelke In our first two posts we outlined an initial definition of the data empowerment concept and discussed three practical examples of data empowerment. In this post we’re looking at ways to ‘do’ data empowerment. …

Data Empowerment

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How to ‘do’ data empowerment
How to ‘do’ data empowerment
Data Empowerment

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