We’re excited to celebrate the nomination of our Programme Administrator, Alessandra Fassio, as a Women in AI Hero! #WAIROE

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

We hosted a webinar to celebrate the achievements of our first Impact Collaborations project: ‘Addressing socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 on children in Scotland: A review of capability and available data assets.’ You can access the recording here.

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.

We attended UNICEF Innocenti’s Leading Minds Webinar to discover more about the current infodemic and how this puts children at risk.

Read all about the impacts of our Building Footprint Identification project.

We’re delighted to publish our first annual report! We hope you enjoy reading about everything the Collaborative has been up to this year.

We recently commissioned a piece of work to The GovLab at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering to complete a topic mapping exercise on youth and climate change.

A review of the recent UNICEF report: ‘Worlds of Influence: Understanding what shapes child well-being in rich countries.’

Watch our video presentation from UNICEF’s HIV Conference Satellite Session to hear from our HIV project team experts.

To help us gain a better understanding of the research landscape and the various themes within the mental health space, we commissioned The GovLab to undertake a topic mapping exercise on adolescent mental health, with a focus on measurement and monitoring.

Our Director Alex Hutchison takes stock of what it has been like to set up a (large!) global collaborative team to work on such an important project.

We are delighted to publish our ethical assessment which captures the unique challenges posed by working on data projects for children.

The recently published ‘A Future for the World’s Children? A WHO-UNICEF-Lancet Commission’ is a major report on child health and well-being, culminating in a call for action to help achieve positive results for children across the globe. #HealthForAll #FutureChild

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.

Together, we can address the far reaching personal, societal and economic impacts of obesity. Become a force for change this #WorldObesityDay.

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.

Listen to our Delivery Director Alex Hutchison and Jude McCorry from The Data Lab talk about the Data for Children Collaborative in an interview with Brian Hills.