This is a two-part podcast under our Data for Good stream. We discuss data culture – how the private sector built such from within and if/how the public sector should follow.

The guest today is James Ingram, CEO of Splashlight and Telmar, and co-founder of LiiV. His business is rooted in data and his expertise lies in the ways data fuels growth. He is also invested, intellectually and philanthropically, in advancing the field of digital anthropology.
The private sector has seen massive investments in their new data capacity, labelling data as assets and building data culture within companies to amplify its power. Other sectors lag behind. This part delves into:
• Data culture – why it matters and what is there to learn from the private sector;
• Frontiers of data – how the data agnostic to people is old news and how we should focus on data about people (i.e., understand the why and the how on top of the what);
• Empathy in data – how societies are to be treated like infants in neonatal care, with governments reading the data for signals of distress and rooting it all in empathy; and
• Digital lives – why understanding citizens’ digital lives is as big of a key to governance as understanding their physical ones.