For data inventory, logic plays a minor role in change, stories, emotion, and trust are the leading roles. Too often we focus on the minors.
Data Inventory – Logic plays a Minor Role
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From the Blog on data governance
Do No Harm and Surprises
The challenge comes with negative surprises. When the data we collect gets used for all kinds of things we didn’t or couldn’t imagine.
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.
I wish you would have asked me first
Our contact details are shared without our knowledge by organisations and companies often with profit (for them) intention. Perhaps we should ask first?
Humanitarian Data Gathering
Recently, 25 people gathered together to discuss the challenges in the humanitarian data ecosystem as highlighted by recent events in Afghanistan.
Scenes we cannot ‘unsee’
There are scenes that once we see, we can not unsee. And there are seminal moments in in history, which shift our collective consciousness into action.
Perhaps it’s time to come together
Perhaps it’s time to come together on a call to both define the ‘problem’ and discuss ideas of different ways forward.
Data is People Part 2: When we will learn?
Data is people. Our collection of data is political. Our politics might be different, but it is no less political. When will we learn?