Data knowledge and skills for society

Mindmap drawn by children.

At Digital Power, we’re aware of the many opportunities data has to offer. We enjoy working together with a variety of clients to help them transition from data to action. But our ambition doesn’t end there. As the data partner, we want to make our data knowledge and skills accessible to everyone – including society and civil society organisations. That’s why, in 2021, we founded a foundation: the Digital Power Datahub.

Whilst Digital Power remains your data partner, our foundation strives to be your Datahub; a connector between civil society, for-profit organisations and the data industry. Digital Power invests in the Datahub foundation so that our data specialists can contribute their knowledge and skills to social projects, free of charge.

What exactly does the Datahub do?

Our activities can be divided into two categories: data awareness and data for good.

Data awareness

If you ask us, data awareness is an essential part of digital literacy. What does that mean? We believe that a fundamental understanding of what data is, what opportunities and risks it introduces and how you can (re)gain control over (your) data according to your own values belongs to that skillset. That is why we provide data awareness training to a variety of audiences: from primary school students to senior citizens and non-profit organisations. That’s how we contribute to a data aware society.

data awareness worksheet

Data for good

As a foundation, we offer the commercial services of Digital Power, free of charge for projects with a social purpose. By doing so, we ensure that our data knowledge and expertise is accessible to initiatives that contribute to the development of society. In other words: this is how data works for good!

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The 1st anniversary of the Datahub

On the 4th of November 2022 we celebrated the first anniversary of the Datahub by organising an event for all of our colleagues: The Datahub Day. This way, we put the Datahub and all its great projects in the spotlight. There were meetups, presentations, workshops and delicious snacks throughout the day. Check the video below to get an impressions of this day!

Datahub content

Data Awareness Among Children

Why we established a foundation

At Digital Power, we are aware of the opportunities that data presents and we don't shy away from our societal responsibility. That's why we established the Digital Power Datahub in 2021. Through our foundation, we contribute to building a data-aware world. Why is this so important?

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The Digital Power Datahub, what exactly is it?

The Datahub: what exactly is it, which projects do we carry out and what do we want to achieve with it? Marloes interviewed Marieke, chair of the Datahub, about this in the podcast 'From data to action'! Listen to the podcast or read the article below.

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workshop about data literacy

Workshops Data Literacy for your team

A data-literate organisation is aware of what data is, its opportunities and risks, and how to collect, store, analyse, and present data in a way that aligns with its organisational values. To assist social organisations in becoming more data-savvy, we offer a range of workshops.

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kids drawing a data wisdom poster

What does the Datahub do?

At Digital Power, we are aware of the opportunities that data offers us and we do not shy away from our societal responsibility. That's why we established a foundation in 2021 called the Digital Power Datahub. With our foundation, we contribute to a data-savvy world where data knowledge is accessible to everyone. What does that look like in practice?

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kids drawing a data wisdom poster

Children (also) leave data everywhere

At Digital Power, we are aware of the opportunities that data offers us and we do not shy away from our societal responsibility. That is why we established a foundation in 2021: the Digital Power Datahub. Through our foundation, we contribute to a data-literate world where data knowledge is accessible to everyone. Discover how the Datahub empowers children with data literacy and what you can do to contribute.

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A fully automated data import pipeline

Stichting Donateursbelangen aims to strengthen trust between donors and charities. They believe that that trust is based on collecting money honestly, openly, transparently and respectfully. At the same time effectively using the raised donation funds to make an impact. To further this goal, Stichting Donateursbelangen wants to share information about charities with donors through their own search engine.

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doctor with stethoscope

Target group research for new website

The organisation Doctors of the World offers medical assistance to people in a vulnerable position. They often do not know how to find their way in the Dutch healthcare system. Doctors of the World helps them with this. One of the channels to get informed about the work of Doctors of the World is the website, which will be redesigned.

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One year of DataHub

The DataHub celebrates its first anniversary this week. Through the foundation, Digital Power is committed to promoting data literacy within society. How has the first year gone? Consultancy.nl interviewed Marieke about it.

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Children who participated in a designathon

Making impact measurable

The Designathon Works foundation organises Design Hackathons (Designathons) for children aged 8 to 12. The target? Teaching children from all over the world skills to become a 'changemaker'. They are challenged to design solutions for a better world, for example to combat climate change. From the Datahub, we helped Designathon Works fine-tune the impact measurements free of charge. We also made a first move towards automating data collection, analysis and visualisation.

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COVID violence tracker

The COVID-19 Violence Tracker

The outbreak of the corona pandemic in early 2020 has turned the world upside down. In addition to countless infections, hospitalisations and deaths, we also saw an outbreak of violence in many countries. Citizens took to the streets, sometimes violently, to protest against the measures taken, but domestic violence also increased in many places and fear and frustration played a role in racism.

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Digital Power Datahub and Partos launch the Data Awareness series

On February 10, 2022, the Digital Power Datahub and the Partos Digital Lab together kicked off the Data Awareness series with the Intro to Data Awareness. This series of 6 training courses develops the Datahub especially for the members of Partos; non-profits in the development cooperation industry. The aim of the series is to make development cooperation specialists data-wise, so that they can make and measure more impact.

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Data literacy for high school students

We can no longer ignore it: our society runs on and is about data. From small to large amounts of data, data about our purchasing behaviour, our health, our WhatsApp messages and our political preferences: data is used to make our lives easier, more fun and more predictable. Sounds good, right?

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Digital Power launches its own charity for social impact

We set up our own foundation, through which we work for social impact on a pro bono basis. Consultancy.co.uk wrote an article about it.

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Want to know more? Marieke is happy to tell you more about the Datahub

Marieke has a background in social and development policy and evaluating it, using (ethically sound) data.

Marieke Schulte

Chair Digital Power Datahub+31(0)6 10 93 54 60marieke.schulte@digital-power.com