As the Data for Children Collaborative transitions from our initial start up phase, we gathered our partners, colleagues and stakeholders for an overview of what we have achieved and our plans for the future..

On 8 March 2022, the Responsible Data for Children (RD4C) team—a collaboration between The GovLab and UNICEF—hosted a special 75-minute webinar on the RD4C principles and tools meant to enable the responsible handling of data for and about children.

Watch a recording of lunch and learn webinar session inviting academics to learn more about the Collaborative and our ways of working.

Read our Director Alex Hutchison’s interview with PrivSec global where she discusses the Collaborative and how we are improving outcomes for children through ethical data use.

As part of DataFest20, we attended the Turing’s Testers Women in Data Science event- encouraging school girls to get involved and close the gender gap in data, technology and computing.

The Data Lab held an event at the Scottish Government, showcasing The Data Lab’s work in Scotland and how their various transformative projects are helping to address complex global issues through the use of data.

Having signed our collaboration agreement in September, we are launching in the academic space to encourage those with relevant research interests and experience to get involved in our projects.

We took part in NTT Data’s 10th annual Open Innovation Contest on the 2nd December.