DataKind Global

We’re honored to welcome Phil Azar as the newest member of our team.

We’re excited to have longtime volunteer Emily Yelverton onboard as our newest Technical Lead.

As part of our COE blog series on project processes and best practices at DataKind, we’re excited to share this introduction to scoping.

By Jake Porway, Co-Founder & Executive Director, DataKind *This article was originally posted on October 7, 2020 but has been reposted with updates. Well, it’s hard to believe, but we’ve just about made it through 2020. I know this year has been a tough one for all of us. In …

In the spirit of staying connected, we held a virtual event powered by Teradata to celebrate what the Data for Good community has done to make the world a better, safer, healthier, and fairer place. With the theme of “Empowering Communities, Serving Humanity”, we “charged” things up with lightning talks by volunteers sharing work that they’ve done over the past year.

Riders wanted to explore ways to ease their couriers’ burdens while speeding up the process of digitizing the data from handwritten forms – ideally in near-real-time! To address this challenge, DataKindⓇ developed “ROCR”: a prototype optical character recognition assisted form-capture tool that extracts and predicts key handwritten fields in the standard sample-transport forms used by Riders’ operations in Nigeria – and records them in a digital logbook.

Housing insecurity is a looming crisis in the United States: nearly 5 million Americans lose their homes through eviction and foreclosure.  The onslaught of COVID-19 and subsequent economic depression is leaving many without a sustainable plan to cover rent or mortgages. Though its ultimate impact will take years to clearly understand, we know that the loss of property and forced displacements are intensely traumatic financially, physically, and emotionally.

WeRobotics is a nonprofit organization dedicated to scaling and accelerating the positive impact of humanitarian, environmental, and public health projects by localizing appropriate robotics solutions such as drones.