1. We are “Big Data” (and so can you!)
Guardian - Data Seminar
London
13 June 2012

2. TechSoup Global
TechSoup Global is a nonprofit serving the nonprofit community worldwide. We have built nonprofit sector capacity through technology for 25 years. We are working toward a time when every social benefit organization on the planet has the technology, resources, and knowledge they need to operate at their full potential.

3. Talking about our data…
Data from September 2011

4. Big Data Volume Velocity Variety
Unstructured
Streamed
Structured
Locally owned
Any source

5. I want to convince you of something…
You must transform the way your community engages with information, specifically data.

6. Open government data. Open business data.

7. https://twitter.com/#!/search/homeless%20london

9. and then collect and share this data.
How do you engage?
Participate by engaging in conversations that matter to your community,
and then collect and share this data.
Aggregate, collect and disseminate data from your constituents
Provide interface or tools to encourage access, so your community can play with the data and build off it, like hack-a-thons and open government data application programming interfaces (APIs)
Thought leadership to build a genuine civil society platform (we don’t mean ivory tower data science, here)

10. Thank you!

11. Please. Contact us: Marnie Webb, Co-CEO mwebb@techsoupglobal
Please! Contact us: Marnie Webb, Co-CEO Paul van Haver, Sr. Director Global Data Services