VERA Hospice Charity Fund tries to raise awareness for this topic and its special requirements, wants to improve the quality of hospices and to create palliative care where it didn’t exist before, so that palliative care can be guaranteed for all terminally ill children and adults within the federal healthcare and social support system. The dignity of the terminally ill patients is most important to VERA – you can find out more about VERA here and an English version here.

Dr. Diana Mantel

Why shouldn´t the same algorithms and techniques that companies use to boost profits be leveraged by mission-driven organisations to improve the world, from battling hunger to advocating for child well-being and more?

However, most social change organisations don’t have the budget or staff to take full advantage of this data revolution and most data scientists don't realise just how valuable their skills can be. 

Since DataKind UK was founded in 2013, the organization has worked to understand the social sector’s needs and how to harness the power of pro bono data scientists to support the sector. 

Edith Kopetz