Who we are

Why Analytics for a Better World?

Analytics for a Better World strengthens the capacity of mission-driven organisations worldwide with the potential of data science. Let’s join forces to tackle the significant challenges of our time and accelerate positive change. Because together, we have a world to win. We are a non-profit community of leading research and industry data science experts dedicated to bridging the gap to impact. By creating data-driven solutions for mission-driven challenges, we enable changemakers to drive a greater impact on their goals. Whether you’re starting your data journey or are looking to advance it. We are here to develop impact cases together and empower your team with the right capabilities and actionable strategies. Analytics for a Better World: Here to help you help.

Vision

We believe analytics (the application of analytics techniques in real-life cases) are an incredibly powerful tool to reach the Sustainable Development Goals. In addition to companies and governments, NGO’s should be empowered to use these tools in their quest for a better world. The combination of both academic knowledge, practical business experience and proven implementation methods are needed to make impact with analytics for NGO’s.

We drive impact on achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through the application of analytics through several activities. We bring together the combined power of nonprofits, the academic world and the business world around the theme of SDG-related analytics. To empower nonprofits, we educate their C-level executives, management and specialists in how to use analytics to further their objectives.

To support nonprofits to create impact with analytics, we build analytical roadmaps and jointly deploy analytics projects. Next to that, we conduct and stimulate applied research on analytics aimed to contribute to the SDGs. Lastly, we share everything that we create as open-source through our repository.

Our mission and activities

You can for example significantly increase the number of people who can avoid hunger and potential death, by using data and models

Dimitris Bertsimas - MIT Professor of Operations Research

In five years’ time, I hope that ABW has become a much larger movement with measurable impact and a lot more partners

Michael van Duijn - CEO ORTEC

Meet our Core Team

Dick den Hertog is Science to Impact Director at ABW, focusing on the academic journal, meet-ups, research projects and the academy.

Male, as she goes by, is originally from Argentina and has lived and worked in multiple countries, focusing on social change and inclusive development. In her work, Male prioritizes collaboration, innovation, and sustainable impact, aligning seamlessly with ABW’s mission. Her experience spans organizational growth, team leadership, and partnerships. She is a result-driven professional with strong analytical and strategic skills. Male is the Director of Impact and Strategic Operations, focusing on accelerating and scaling ABW’s impact and driving our mission.

Parvathy Krishnan is the Chief Technology Officer at ABW and focuses on impact projects, technology strategy, and the open-source data products’ repository.