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9 ways IT leaders can impact sustainability initiatives

CIO

Many CIOs don’t know where to start,” says Brian Kirkland, CIO at Choice Hotels and founding board member for SustainableIT.org, a nonprofit launched to help create frameworks and standards around sustainability. Morgan Stanley’s IT department, for example, is helping nonprofits as part of its Technology Change Makers program.

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Subak, which incubates data-for-climate not-for-profits, announces six startups in 2022 cohort

TechCrunch

based incubator focused on nonprofit startups that are addressing climate-related challenges through open-source data initiatives has announced the six startups which will be put through its 2022 program. The startup’s goal is to be able to provide rich, real-time analytics to local policymakers, conservation groups, NGOs, etc.

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Disrupt and Innovate in a Data-Driven World

Cloudera

If you do an internet search for ‘data-driven disruption’ you can find articles about almost every industry being disrupted by digitalisation and new applications of data. While there are instances of data-driven efforts in the nonprofit sector, they are not as widespread as they can be.

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Should you build or buy generative AI?

CIO

That includes curated data, like a legal database, in the same way you might add a commercial weather prediction service to a more traditional machine learning (ML) model for generating routes or predicting shipping times rather than build your own weather model from scratch. If you’re not using it, you’re going to get left behind.”

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Free Programming Courses from Harvard, MIT, Microsoft and more (Sponsored)

David Walsh

Did you know that you can learn programming online from institutions like Harvard, MIT and Microsoft on edX.org ? The nonprofit site offers 2000 online courses from 140 institutions worldwide. Also learn statistical concepts such as probability, inference, and modeling and how to apply them in practice. Courses are free to try.

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It’s time for data ethics conversations at your dinner table

O'Reilly Media - Data

quintillion records of data created every day, people are being defined by how they travel, surf the internet, eat, and live their lives. For example, AI Now 2017 , IEEE , The Future of Life Institute , Metro Lab Network , the ACM , and the Oxford Internet Institute have all issued reports on these topics.

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The Value of Data for Philanthropy

Cloudera

Whether we like it or not, this Internet of Things is the new reality. Much faster feedback loops can also have other practical implications: one NGO we spoke with wanted to send results back to teams in the field before they moved into areas with unreliable internet reception. For example, the Michael J.

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