How organizations can take a mission-driven approach to improving, maintaining, and leveraging their data ecosystems.
DISCLAIMER: This is isn’t a piece about big data or data-as-commodity. This is an article about how data exist alongside people, places, and things — and what that means for our communities, organizations, and policies.
Data-driven, data-informed, data-enabled, data-centric, data data data. Data. Data are everywhere. We’ve heard.
Where are those data? How are they collected, analyzed, shared, and stored? Why are they collected, analyzed, shared, and stored? Who owns them? …
5 Ways Business Can Make Good on Statements Against Injustice
Since the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6th, 2021, American corporate leaders have released an unprecedented number of public statements condemning violence, racism, and sedition. As the business community distances itself from the Trump administration and the MAGA rioters, there’s a familiar feeling among consumers, employees, and activists: “Ok, great. Show us.”
Whenever social justice and injustice enters the national conversation, companies across the country publish press releases, produce statements, and overhaul their marketing. Fantastic — what else? What about not only hiring and talent practices, but supply chains? Vendor relationships? Contracting policies?
This isn’t an attack on…
I make a living by pointing out blind spots and bringing them into the field of folks’ vision. While I do bring folks clarity, I don’t always bring them comfort. You’re working on solar energy solutions? Great. What are the implications for those in traditional energy industries who might be out of work soon? Can low-income households access your technology? Where are you developing land, and what are the implications for indigenous communities and their ancestral homelands? Are you aware of the history of environmental racism and are you actively dismantling it within your own practices?
Woof. Who invited her?
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