In this episode, we talk with Dr. Julia Lane, cofounder of the Coleridge Initiative—a program that aims to transform the way governments access and use data for social good. It's a wide-ranging discussion covering major themes in Julia's new book, Democratizing Our Data: A Manifesto, new public data demands sparked by the COVID crisis, as well as strategies for meeting urgent needs in the short term while building better systems infrastructure over time. Julie sees both critical urgency and limitless potential for using data more effectively to inform public policy, program designs, and the sequence and timing of interventions to produce better outcomes for people and communities.

So many references! And we've got you covered:

• Democratizing Our Data: A Manifesto (2020)
• The Coleridge Initiative/Administrative Data Research Facility (ADRF)
  • Training
  • ADRF Collaborators
  • National Convening: Jobs Data for Evidence-Based Policy (Information & Registration)
• Origins of the Unemployment Rate: The Lasting Legacy of Measurement without Theory, David Card (2011)
• Burning Glass Jobs Data
• NASWA
  • Breaking New Ground
• Foundations Catalyzing Change in the Public Data Space:
  • Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
  • Schmidt Futures
  • Overdeck Family Foundation
• Morrill Act and Land Grant Colleges/Agricultural Extension Programs

For more information:

• Sign up for the #MakingBetterWork Newsletter: https://mailchi.mp/903537e424bb/mbwnews
• Community of Practice/WorkforceGPS: https://wdqi.youth.workforcegps.org/
• Email Julia: [email protected]
• Email Kristin: [email protected]

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Credits:

Produced with support from the US Department of Labor's WDQI Technical Support Project and (fantastic) Doug Foresta.