Greetings and welcome to the final post of Data Ethics Week! I’m Johnny Du (he/him), a Writer/Editor with Informing Change. My colleagues and our collaborators have told you all week about the importance of considering data ethics when conducting research and evaluation, having developed a Guidebook and Toolkit to help with decision-making. Having strong data …

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Hi – once again it’s Anjie Rosga, from Informing Change. This time, I’m here with a reflection on professional development in ethical thinking for Data Ethics Week. If my and Caitlin Stanton’s first post focused on the origins of data ethics and contemporary interpretations of how to do research and evaluation in the social sector ethically …

Data Ethics Week: Building Your Team’s Ethical Thinking Muscles: Professional Development in Ethics by Anjie Rosga Read More »

My name is Billie Joe Rogers and I’m an Anishinaabe member of Aamjiwnaang First Nation in Ontario, Canada, and co-owner of Reciprocal Consulting Inc based out of Vancouver, BC. I offered my experiences and views to Informing Change during the creation of the Data Ethics Guidebook and Toolkit, and was invited to further share my …

Data Ethics Week: It’s Not Just Data by Billie Joe Rogers Read More »

Hello! Welcome to day 4 of Data Ethics Week at the AEA365. My name is Caitlin Stanton, a Senior Associate at Informing Change, and I am one of the authors of the Data Ethics Guidebook and Toolkit we produced and made available to our field. I started out studying theatre, and, to this day, I …

Data Ethics Week: Thinking Ethically and Thinking Equitably by Caitlin Stanton Read More »

Hi! I’m Inti Chomsky, an Associate at Informing Change, a strategic learning and evaluation firm based in Berkeley, California. Our team is frequently tasked with drafting surveys and analyzing that data for our clients. Often, our surveys include a set of demographic information questions as part of our standard practice; we typically disaggregate the data …

Data Ethics Week: Collecting Demographic Data with Care by Inti Chomsky Read More »

Greetings AEA community, I am Andrea Lozano, Evaluation and Learning Officer at The David and Lucile Packard Foundation. At the Packard Foundation we work with people and communities to create enduring solutions for just societies and a healthy, resilient natural world. In this blog, I would like to share how we are rethinking our approach …

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Hi AEA365 readers! We are Anjie Rosga and Caitlin Stanton with Informing Change, a strategic learning and evaluation firm based in Berkeley, California. We are excited to kick off Data Ethics Week with a simple question: what is data ethics? In a nutshell, according to the Open Data Institute, it’s “a branch of ethics that …

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