By Giselle Cory, CEO of DataKind UK Today’s Charity Digital Skills Report provides us with the most complete picture of attitudes towards data and digital in the social sector to date. A few big trends come to the fore. One is that there are significant unmet funding needs for data…

​​A big welcome to Amanda Cave, DataKind UK’s brand new Team Coordinator. She will support the whole team across our work and programmes to ensure everything runs like clockwork. She is based in Norwich but will be visiting the London office regularly. What were you up to before DataKind? Most recently I worked for an MP, predominantly…

We are thrilled to welcome to the DataKindverse the brilliant Nish Doshi, who is the new Community Manager of the Data Collective, a burgeoning community for people who work with data in the social sector. Their role is part-time, combined with working as Network Co-ordinator for the Tech for Good…

by Beth Woods, Evaluation Manager, Depaul UK In everything that we do at Depaul UK, we aim to make a positive difference to the young people we support. Every person we help is in a unique situation and has a unique set of needs, so we focus on the individual…

As more and more charities invest in using data, there’s a new buzzword in the sector: ‘data maturity’. It’s something every organisation should be aware of, because it sheds light on your data use, strengths and weaknesses, and how you might be able to develop. Understanding where your charity sits…

by Holly Smith, Senior Cloud Solutions Consultant and DataKind UK Volunteer In this post, I’m going to offer a quick overview of the pros and cons of storing your work and data on your laptop, in on-premise storage, and in the cloud — particularly with regard to efficiency, cost, and…

This year, we were so proud to work with a fantastic network of organisations, partners, and friends to hold the 2021 Data4Good Festival, launch the Data Collective, and create our own new five-year strategy. We can’t fully express our gratitude to you all! This was on top of our usual…

We spoke to founder Sadiqah Musa and co-founder Devina Nembhard of Black in Data (BID), a rapidly growing network of people of colour in data, with an end goal of shifting diversity in the data industry, ‘in order that people of colour may feel confident, visible and heard’. Please tell us about yourselves! Devina: I…

By David Ainsworth, freelance journalist. This has been cross-posted from the Data4Good Festival website as part of a series of posts written by speakers at the 2021 Data4Good Festival. Charities and their service users frequently face a power imbalance. In theory, the charity exists to make life better for service…