Our Technical Director, Jesse Bourns, recently travelled to CODS17 in Edmonton. Prior to the conference, he co-presented the Data 4 Impact Workshop. The workshop was designed to raise awareness of the value of data sharing at the organizational and sector level and to provide frameworks that would be helpful to organizations in the development of plans to enable the effective use of data.
Read MoreWe are honoured to have been awarded the Open Data Accessibility Award during the Canadian Open Data Awards annual ceremony on June 13th, 2017 in Edmonton, Alberta.
Read MoreWe’re thrilled to announce that we’ve produced a video series of the sessions at Transform the Sector 2017. The series includes a conference recap and also videos that cover the various topics discussed at the conference including open data and funders, administrative data, data capacity and data ethics.
Read MoreIt’s been a month since Transform the Sector, the conference on building a data-informed social sector, that we co-hosted with the Ontario Trillium Foundation and the Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab. Here is our list of the 5 themes that we heard emerge throughout the day.
Read MoreDo you wish your organization could access online donation data to better understand donor behaviour and drive your own online donations?
Woodrow Wilson, CEO & Founder of With Intent, is working on a project that is doing just that. Woodrow is a consultant with The Belfer Center for Innovation and Social Impact at 92Y, managing the #GivingTuesday Data Project supported by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Datakind.
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