I co-authored an article on the role of big data for social innovation in the current issue of Stanford Social Innovation Research.
Nonprofits and other social change organizations are lagging their counterparts in the scientific and business communities in collecting and analyzing the vast amounts of data that are being generated by digital technology. Four steps need to be taken to improve the use of big data for social innovation.
This article builds on my provisos work that looked at big data opportunities and challenges in the public sector funded by the IBM Center for the Business of Government.