Data for Action — principles refresh

Refreshing our Principles and ways of working.

People as Code

People as Code imagines a world built like open source, modular, participatory, and transparent, where people help write policy, foundations build platforms, and data becomes a shared resource.

Grant funding for digital and data in the UK charity sector -

a year on have things changed and perhaps how they could change for the better

On psychological safety

Last night, I got caught in the train meltdown. Cue lots of confusion, lots of panicked people. It was something I was able to navigate…

Why AI*?

* this should be read as if you are from the North East of England

The questions we’re trying to answer

As we’re just starting out on a project as part of Joseph Rowntree Foundations Insight Infrastructure work. We’ve written about why we think question-centred approaches are powerful. But what are the questions we’re trying to answer by doing this specific bit of work?

The Power of a Question-Centered Approach to Data

“Imagine if the secret to mastering data lies in our capacity to ask the right questions?

Open By Default

Riffing on how we use Principles to guide our work, especially Open By Default

Is it the CRM?

Is the problem really the CRM or which CRM and how it was implemented (or not!)

A new direction, a new focus and a new company.

Starting a new company called Data For Action - why and what it's all about