In June this year, our DataSense researchers had the incredible opportunity to participate in a four-day workshop titled, “𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐍𝐞𝐰 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐄𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐨𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐄𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞: 𝐂𝐨-𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬,” hosted by the Edinburgh Futures Institute at The University of Edinburgh (UoE).
This event marked a major milestone in our ongoing collaboration with UoE, funded by The British Academy and The Wolfson Foundation.
The workshop was a dynamic platform for our research on the digitalized old-age allowance system in Bangladesh. Our researchers engaged in cross-country knowledge sharing and learned from Scotland’s leading innovation agencies, alongside the social enterprises, eSheBee, Community Cred, and Grand Bequest. They also got the opportunity to learn from the experiences of Scotland’s leading innovation agencies – Nesta, Data for Children Collaborative, Data-Driven Innovation Initiative, and Social Enterprise Scotland).
The interactive sessions allowed our researchers to strengthen our data flow, model our ideas, and co-design a digital artifact that will help us advance our project agenda.
We are proud to have been a part of this amazing journey to challenge inequalities, foster inclusion, and promote community-centered development. This partnership reaffirms our commitment to leveraging data for meaningful social impact.
Stay tuned for further insights from our research on the digitalized old-age allowance system, as we will share findings in our upcoming roundtable comprising of experts from the government, think tanks, academia, civil society organizations (CSOs), and individual consultants.