DataDive to Fight Poverty and Corruption with the World Bank!
From the post:
We’re thrilled to announce a huge new DataKind DataDive coming to DC the weekend of 3/15! We’re teaming up with the World Bank to put a dent in some of the most serious problems in poverty and corruption through the use of data. Low bar, right?
We’re calling on all socially conscious analysts, statisticians, data scientists, coders, hackers, designers, or eager-to-learn do-gooders to come out with us on the weekend of 3/15 to work with data to improve the world. You’ll be working alongside experts in the field to analyze, visualize, and mashup the most cutting-edge data from the World Bank, UN, and other sources to improve poverty monitoring and root out corruption. We’ve started digging into the data a little ourselves and we’re already so excited for how cool this event is going to be. “Oh, what’d you do this weekend? I reduced global poverty and rooted out corruption. No big deal.”
BTW, there is an Open Data Day on 2/23 to prepare for the DataDive on 3/15.
What isn’t clear from the announcement(s) is what data is to be mined to fight poverty and corruption?
Or what is meant by “corruption?”
Graph solutions, for example, would be better at tracking American style corruption that shuns quid pro quo in favor of a community of interest of the wealthy and well-connected.
Such communities aren’t any less corrupt than members of government with cash in their freezers, just less obvious.