Why is my date of birth needed for an appointment. Is it to check if I’m an adult? In 2022, asking ‘are you born before 2004 would suffice.
Could we collect less?
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From the Blog on data minimalisation
A Utility Bill?
Sometimes our processes are absurd. Not intentionally, but well meaning ideas evolve into absurdia. we need to become ruthless.
Data Thorns
Her whole life has changed because of the thorn. She finds ways to ‘live’ with it rather than removing the thorn. Organisations are similar.
Be Prepared: Another Resource
When things go wrong, those who are prepared fare the best. So to help, we created a very simple data inventory mapping tool for you.
Balancing Act
Trust is often viewed as woolly, intangible, hard to measure, which it is, but that doesn’t mean it might just be the most important thing we have.
Disaggregation
The two most common (and expected) ways we disaggregate data is by gender and age. But why is disaggregation done?
Humanitarian Data Gathering #2
One gathering was never going to be enough. It’s not enough time, not all the right people, and so on. So we’re doing it again.
Humanitarian Data: 10 Things to Do
The recent events in Afghanistan are not just about Afghanistan, but rather about how we work and the ecosystem in which we work. Here are 10 things to do.
Perhaps it’s time to question what we collect
Why do we collect data? But perhaps we don’t need to and we need to question it all. Perhaps we can delete it much faster than we realise.