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Hey Data Do-Gooders!
You're invited to our very first DataDive!
DataDives (http://www.datakind.org/howitworks/datadives/) are weekend-long, marathon-style, events where mission-driven organizations work alongside teams of our volunteer data scientists, developers, and designers to use their data to gain insight into their programs, the communities they serve, and more. Volunteers of all levels of data science - from beginners to experts are welcomed to enhance their skills, network, build community, and see how they can use their skills for good!
Our non-profit partners for this DataDive are: Teach For India, Digital Green and Janaagraha (iChangeMyCity). These organizations have talked about their high-impact work and discussed their data challenges with us in our Project Accelerator Night (PAN) (http://social.yourstory.com/2015/01/data-science-tfi-digital-green-janaagraha-klp/), also we have wrangled and cleansed their datasets in our action packed DataJam (https://www.meetup.com/DataKind-Bangalore/events/220161476/).
Note: Do remember to bring your Laptops
Agenda:
Day 1: Saturday, March 21
10:00 am - 11:00 am: Brief introduction about 3 projects by NGO partners & Data Ambassadors
11:00 am - 11:30 am: Participants select their project & join respective teams
11:30 am - 1:00 pm: Data Ambassadors debrief their team with project roadmap & data exploration
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Lunch & networking
2:00 pm - 5:30 pm: Open round-tables and data diving
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Share back and networking
Day 2: Sunday, March 22
10:00 am - 10:30 am: Data Ambassadors share progress of their projects
10:30 am - 1:00 pm: Happy data diving
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm: Lunch & networking
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm: Teams review & polish their work
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm: Presentations from teams
5:30 pm - 6:00 pm: Share back and networking
Short description of our mission-driven partner organizations:
Teach for India
Teach for India started out in 2009 as a nationwide movement of outstanding college graduates and young professionals committing two years to teach full-time at under resourced schools and working towards the pursuit of equity in education. Currently, Teach for India is active in 7 cities, with a network of 910 fellows and 660 alumni.
Digital Green
Digital Green, founded in 2008, is an international, non-profit development organization that builds and deploys information and communication technology to amplify the effectiveness of development efforts to affect sustained, social change. Their model combines technology and social organization to maximize the potential of building the capacity of community members on improved, sustainable agriculture, livelihood and health interventions.
Janaagraha
Janaagraha was established in 2001 as a non-profit organisation that works on combining the efforts of both the government and the citizens to transform our cities and ensure better quality of life by improving quality of urban infrastructure and services and quality of citizenship. Their civic portal IChangeMyCity promotes civic action at a local neighborhood level.
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