The Misuse of Data is Solvable

The Rockefeller Foundation Aug 6, 2019
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The Misuse of Data is Solvable Giving Compass

Giving Compass’ Take:

· In this #Solvable podcast from The Rockefeller Foundation, Jacob Weisberg and Jake Porway discuss how organizations working for social good can responsibly leverage data and the benefits of AI.

· How has data been misused in the past? How can we learn from those experiences and use data responsibly?

· Here’s how to balance the opportunities and responsibilities data offers.

Jake Porway is the founder and executive director of DataKind, an organization that brings together leading data scientists with high impact social organizations to better collect, analyze, and visualize data in the service of humanity. Porway was most recently the data scientist in the New York Times R&D Lab and has worked with organizations like NASA, DARPA, Google, and Bell Labs.

Read the full article about the misuse of data at The Rockefeller Foundation.

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