Jesse Bourns
@jbourns
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Running Ajah, building tech/IA systems, quietly pushing information infrastructure for nonprofit sectors w/ Powered by Data. Posting because of social pressure
Montréal, Québec
Joined November 2010
It's been a month.
Organizational dignity, secrecy in philanthropy, and equity data. https://t.co/HKW1WL9mCg CC: @canadiancharity, @IDinsight
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I just want to share this with even *more* people: great model for how to articulate a TOC
Highlighting a *superlative* TOC from one of our partner’s, @DaymarkFdn
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I think @mlenc has been looking for this exact conference for a loooong time
Finally a place where people (nerds like us) are focusing on administrative data for social programs! We can't wait to attend this awesome event by the @Coleridge4Data! https://t.co/4IZzdHiVpb
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If it sounds like a data problem, it's probably a people problem.
It's not your data, it's you. https://t.co/gN0NjAAu0U
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Making the world better through deregulation 🙃 . Here’s some stuff we’re reading.
Three articles, three different directions for philanthropy. Check out what we've been reading lately: https://t.co/XH21N2klMj
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Auditors: my favourite underappreciated agents of social change.
Audits and the social sector: two examples explored in our "What are we reading" series this month: https://t.co/qq5k97t2OQ
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Are your projects “big enough to fail?” Check out our new blog post on giving our projects a chance to succeed: https://t.co/tXGx55OKyO
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We put together an event at TAG to do my favourite thing: complain (about data)
Whine and Cheese : highlights from the first "Failanthropy" cocktail hour at @tagtechorg San Antonio https://t.co/KlcELfvqWx
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This week we are reading about data (shocking):
New blog post up on open data, meta-data, and paywalls (oh my!) https://t.co/djd0etW3YY
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Cautionary tales from academia:
When peer review can’t save us, what happens? Cautionary tales from academia: https://t.co/6eu0d8wr3G
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Experimentation and prototyping are strategies for resilient organizations—but I don't think we do a good job of systematically putting that into practice.
Did you know that organizations that prototype are better equipped to make decisions and manage uncertainty and change? Here's why. Read our latest by @jbourns: https://t.co/E92e9vie6T
#nonprofits
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The @GivingTuesday Data Commons is a collaborative effort to understand giving— drivers, behaviors, and what might inspire more of it. Read about our approach to the project over the last two years: https://t.co/snyfQd4AB8
@withwoodrow @RadioFreeAsha #nonprofits #DataGovernance
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It turns out that not asking your partners to conform to your way of doing things actually pays off. Read more about our work with the @GivingTuesday Data Commons. @withwoodrow @RadioFreeAsha #DataGovernance
"We don’t really think of Ajah’s people who work on the project as external anymore. They’re an integrated part of our team." @withwoodrow Read about our work w/ the @GivingTuesday Data Commons https://t.co/snyfQd4AB8
@RadioFreeAsha @mlenc @MeasureDoc #nonprofits #DataGovernance
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Since @JoyceMurray clarified that "Canada is now open by default" in this piece and @AlexBenay & his team having created the first open-by-default org, I guess I'll stop worrying abt silly things like the centralization of power at the PCO and wait times for ATI requests. #phew
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Although, if Canada is holding itself up as such a model for openness for the rest of the world, you might wonder why it's not moving to make #beneficialownership information available. https://t.co/QsYkPdoEes
@opengovpart
cbc.ca
Despite the latest flurry of money-laundering stories, it's not a new problem. Canada has long had a reputation as haven for illicit cash. Was it just mistake? Or does a failure to crack down imply...
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@GC_McGee @team_ajah @pwrd_by_data So, I/we think data trusts can be good for multi-party agreements where you want to steward or take advantage of private assets. But it seems that they would result in added restrictions on the public governance of assets, thereby diminishing government's power.
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@mlenc @GC_McGee @team_ajah @pwrd_by_data I wonder if sometimes we conflate public mistrust of private unregulated actors like Facebook with the data governance gaps we are aware of in our existing regulatory public sector framework.
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