Data knowledge and skills for society

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?

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.