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Data Digest: Open Data for Africa Platform, Silent Data Revolution in MENA and Data Strategies

Tech Soup

The platform has been rolled out to 54 African countries and will support the gathering, access, management and analysis of quality data from African countries. There is some great insight into the need for the Open Data movement to be more inclusive as well as explanations of why big data gathering should be more strategic.

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Intuition vs. Data: How VolunteerMatch Uses Data to Change the Way It Makes Strategic Decisions

NTEN

As an application service provider with roots that stretch back to the early days of the Web, we've been through several phases of change and development. Avoid using marketing hype as a substitute for your own analysis. In the case of VolunteerMatch, we're not immune by a long shot. Sometimes we've led trends.

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