Mastercard and The Rockefeller Foundation Announce data.org: A Platform for Data Science Partnerships
January 23 2020 - 2:30AM
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$10 Million Challenge Launched to Help
Crowdsource Solutions to Social Challenges
The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth and The Rockefeller
Foundation today announced data.org as a platform for partnerships
that will continue to build the field of data science for social
impact. This is the next chapter of a $50 million commitment
Mastercard and the Rockefeller Foundation made last year to launch
a transformational model for philanthropy.
As part of today’s announcement, data.org launched a new $10
million impact challenge to crowdsource scalable and sustainable
data science solutions for non-profit, civic and government
organizations.
With the data.org domain name, The Rockefeller Foundation and
the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth are building on the
success of the original DATA.org—launched in 2002 by a group of
innovative social entrepreneurs, including rock star and
philanthropist Bono, to alleviate debt, AIDS and trade inequalities
in Africa. In what ultimately became the ONE Campaign, they focused
on driving evidence-based approaches to development.
“Our commitment to building the field of data science is rooted
in the belief that data-driven insights can deliver
transformational change that improves the lives of vulnerable
people and helps solve the world’s most pressing challenges,” said
Michael Froman, vice chairman of Mastercard. “We must make sure
that even as people have unprecedented access to technology, we
don’t allow a new digital divide to emerge.”
“While the private sector has been gathering data and using data
science analytics, such as artificial intelligence for many years,
most non-profit, civic and public sector institutions still lack
the resources to do so,” said Dr. Rajiv Shah, President of The
Rockefeller Foundation. “Just as these tools have given businesses
competitive edges, enabling them to find nuanced ways to improve
productivity and market impact, data science can increase the
speed, depth, and accuracy of analyzing a social challenge,
pointing to solutions, partnerships, and innovative investments
that can provide impact.”
The new data.org seeks to build the capacity of non-profit
organizations with training resources, access to data sets and
open-sourced tools that help these organizations harness the power
of data insights and analytics to enhance their efforts. This will
be done in a way that brings more people and organizations together
to effect positive social change, all while adhering to principles
of responsible data use.
Its current partners include DataKind, Benefits Data Trust,
Community Solutions and Tableau Foundation. All of these
organizations are leveraging data science to help solve complex
societal challenges. For example, in partnership with nonprofit
organization DataKind, John Jay College of Criminal Justice was
able to use predictive analytics to identify students at risk of
dropping out and intervene with resources to support them,
resulting in a dramatic improvement of their graduation rates.
Community Solutions, a nonprofit working in more than 80 cities and
counties to measurably end homelessness, partnered with Tableau
Foundation, to fuel the initiative’s progress through the use of
data analytics. And finally, Benefits Data Trust, a national
nonprofit organization based in Philadelphia, is helping millions
of low-income American families access the safety net benefits
available to help them through the use of artificial intelligence
and leveraging the power of data.
For more information about the platform for partnerships and
future details about the impact challenge go to data.org.
About the Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth
The Mastercard Center for Inclusive Growth focuses on promoting
equitable and sustainable economic growth and financial inclusion
around the world. As an independent subsidiary of Mastercard, the
Center leverages the company’s data insights, expertise and
technology, along with administering Mastercard’s philanthropic
investments, to empower a community of thinkers, leaders and
innovators on the front lines of inclusive growth. For more
information and to receive its latest insights, follow the Center
on Twitter @CNTR4growth, subscribe to its newsletter and visit
www.mastercardcenter.org.
About The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation advances new frontiers of science,
data, policy and innovation to solve global challenges related to
health, food, power and economic mobility. As a science-driven
philanthropy focused on building collaborative relationships with
partners and grantees, the Foundation seeks to inspire and foster
large-scale human impact that promotes the well-being of humanity
throughout the world by identifying and accelerating breakthrough
solutions, ideas and conversations. For more information, visit
www.rockefellerfoundation.org.
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