Data is increasingly at the center of so many efforts in modern society. The business world has broken the code on how to collect and widely share the world’s data for profit: it’s known as surveillance capitalism. However, this model is not appropriate for the social good sector, which is collecting data to better serve their communities, rather than to exploit them. As a result, data in the social good sector is scattered about in millions of tiny siloes, constraining its potential to be used ethically and effectively for the greater good.

What if there was a lightweight approach to data collection, use and governance? One that centered benefits to the individual and the community, not to companies and investors? One that was ideally as easy to do the right thing as putting a Creative Commons license on a video or a document, or an open source license on software?

Join Jim Fruchterman as he describes a nascent movement to build a Better Deal for Data together to fill the data governance void for social impact!