What's happening at Analytics for a Better World? See our updates:
Volunteer vacancies
We're opening up a couple of volunteeropportunities to support us with outreach and engaging with our target audiences (the nonprofitsector, companies, and researchers), and pursue our mission: applying analytics to contribute to the SDGs. We have 3 volunteer openings to support us with:
Workshop: Using digital principles and data science for M&E
We organized a workshop about data science and digital principles with our partner AMREF Health and FINISH mondial, with participants from Kenya, Uganda and The Netherlands
Article: Improving the world with mathematics and models (Dutch)
We're proud to be interviewed and covered by the Mediahuis' Green appendix (Groenbijlage) for various Dutch local newspapers. See the article below (in Dutch)
Opinion: Use Analytics for other Sustainable Development Goals as well
Thanks to Analytics, millions more more people can be fed, as demonstrated by the Zero Hunger Lab. Time to unleash that same approach on other humanitarian goals, argues Professor Dick den Hertog. See the opinion article below.
Launch conference announcement
The Analytics for a Better World institute will kick-off with a conference on 1 June 2022 at the University of Amsterdam. Please find more information below on this institute, this conference and registration.
We published our launching magazine!
We’re happy you’ve found this magazine! It is a publication of Analytics for a Better World, a newly launched institute that brings together the brightest minds to pursue a special mission: applying analytics together with NGOs, the public sector and non-profit organizations to make an impact on the Sustainable Development Goals. This magazine highlights the first steps in this mission and inspires you with stories and use cases from experts in this domain across the globe.
Press release: our launch and introduction of our mission!
Knowledge institute helps solve world problems with data analysis. ORTEC and professors UvA and MIT establish Analytics for a Better World Institute