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Corporate Social Responsibility for a Data Age

2/16/2017

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Proprietary data can help improve and save lives, but fully harnessing its potential will require a cultural transformation in the way companies, governments, and other organizations treat and act on data.

Cross-posted on: https://ssir.org/articles/entry/corporate_social_responsibility_for_a_data_age?platform=hootsuite

By Stefaan G. Verhulst 

In April 2015, the Gorkha earthquake hit Nepal—the worst in more than 80 years. Hundreds of thousands of people were rendered homeless and entire villages were flattened. The earthquake also triggered massive avalanches on Mount Everest, and ultimately killed nearly 9,000 people across the country.

Yet for all the destruction, the toll could have been far greater. Without mitigating or in any way denying the horrible disaster that hit Nepal that day, the responsible use of data helped avoid a worse calamity and may offer lessons for other disasters around the world.


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    Josje Spierings is head of the Secretariat of the International Data Responsibility Group, a collaboration between the Data & Society Research Institute, Data-Pop Alliance, the GovLab at NYU, UN Global Pulse, Signal Program - Harvard Humanitarian Initiative - Harvard University and Leiden University.
    ​Together, these partners aim to advance the agenda of responsible data use for vulnerable and crisis affected populations. Josje is project leader at Leiden University’s Centre for Innovation, where she works on project design and delivery in the HumanityX program.

    To contact the IDRG Secretariat, please reach out to j.h.spierings@fgga.leidenuniv.nl

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