How does relational ethics help to navigate ethical challenges for data-driven innovation?
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Guest blog by Viviana Cañón Tamayo, Frontier Data- programme specialist at UNICEF HQ, on her definition of frontier data.
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As with any high-impact project, stakeholder engagement is crucial to its success. At the Collaborative, we have a simple philosophy – let’s create speed boats, not cruise ships’.
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In recent years there has been a growing appetite for putting ethics at the core of emerging technologies. Why is this so important?
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A conversation between Alessandra Fassio, our previous Advocacy and Relations Manager and Iwona Soppa, who is stepping into this role.
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We sure don’t see many robots in the classrooms yet, so what do we actually mean by the term machine learning?
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In line with Mental Health Awareness Week, we’re delighted to share some of the outputs and findings from our project focused on adolescent mental health.
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Our Director was talking about her job to a Primary 5 class this week (aged 9 and 10 year olds) during their careers week and it got her to thinking – do we all have a consistent understanding of what we mean by “data”?
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Here at the Data for Children Collaborative with UNICEF, we provide the platform that brings together the right data, skills and expertise to help solve some of the most pressing challenges facing children across the globe. But what does it mean to call something a ‘data collaborative as a service?’
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On 8 March 2022, the Responsible Data for Children (RD4C) team—a collaboration between The GovLab and UNICEF—hosted a special 75-minute webinar on the RD4C principles and tools meant to enable the responsible handling of data for and about children.
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Robust population data is fundamental for many UN agencies to operate efficiently and effectively. But there are widespread, and very valid, concerns about its accuracy. Across the UN, different teams are exploring how to obtain, and maintain, more accurate data – using satellite data, social media and machine learning along the way.
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Something we have been keen to explore is how we can understand the value of our community engagement. We believe solving complex problems takes a community. But this has led to the question: “what do we mean by effective engagement, and how do we measure it?”
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Northern Alliance regional improvement collaborative colleagues are working with the Data for Children Collaborative on a project to explore how to make better use of data to assess the poverty-related attainment gap across eight local authorities.
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Knowledge Exchange, simply put, is the process of sharing information, ideas, and perspectives amongst individuals and organisations to enable new and impactful outcomes. In reality, we all practice a form of knowledge exchange in our daily lives – we communicate with our colleagues, peers, and friends.
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Demonstrating impact can be a challenge in the development and humanitarian sector, and a Theory of Change is a key bridging tool to show how change will be effective to achieve intended impact.
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Participation is much more than having a voice. It is about being informed, engaged and having an influence in decisions and matters.
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The climate crisis is a child’s rights crisis. What can you do to help put children at the heart of climate action? In line with today’s focus on youth and public empowerment, we are releasing our policy brief based on our contributions to the Children’s Climate Risk Index.
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This Global Ethics Day we’re delighted to launch the first piece in our DCC Dictionary series – all about ethics. We hope this empowers others to think about how they engage with ethics in both their personal and professional lives.
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Given that good mental health is fundamental to children’s well-being, greater global investments are needed to support the services required to meet the complex and multifaceted mental-health challenges that children face today.
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