In the past few years, Civita has supported and helped dozens of charities in Australia to raise their data maturity. …

Mission Australia first crossed Civita’s path in November 2018 in its first data for good hackathon. During one afternoon, multiple teams had worked on the same question: how can Mission Australia identify neighbourhoods across Australia with high giving capacity that are near its services? A year and half past, during which some of the volunteers worked sporadically on the project with Yael Wasserman, who is senior…

Last year, the Insight Exchange Foundation (Domestic Violence Service Management) was looking to understand the perceptions of people who lived experiences of domestic and family violence (DFV) during employment. Jennifer Sloane, a Civita volunteer and active community member, helped the Domestic Violence Service Management (DVSM) team organise, clean, and analyse data obtained from a survey completed by over 1,000 individuals in Australia.

It all started with a data-hackathon. On March 2019, Civita organised a data-hackathon called Hackt for Equity in STEM. Gathering in one of the main rooms of the Engineering building of UTS, the Civita team and more than 30 volunteers worked the whole afternoon on several challenges for social good. …

Civita was born less than 12 months ago and has had an incredible year of stuttering and first words like #hacktforimpact and #dataequity and days punctuated by the wonders of the data for good world. …

On the 25th and 26th of October, Civita will join the Climathon to help Sydney prepare for the increasing heatwaves that will take on the city. The goal? Leveraging the power of data to make the city resilient. “The impacts of extreme heat are deadly, on the rise globally and…

On Saturday 23rd of March, Civita organised its first Hackt of the year. During three hours, five teams of data scientists, consultants, researchers, students and data enthusiasts collaborated to help organisations reduce the gender gap in the STEM industries. Why this topic? Gender equality has generally improved a lot in the past century…

Or your top ingredients to start a basic yet thoughtful journey towards women’s rights support. For International Women’s rights day, I suggest everyone breaks that bad habit. No politically correct events with sandwiches and pictures of smiling women from across the world. No inspirational Instagram posts about Woman Power in nice shiny pink letters. No, please. Let’s stop this. …

As the founder and co-organizer of Sydney Data for Democracy for the past 15 months, I had an amazing time gathering smart and driven volunteers around data for good projects. Among them we had the creme de la creme: Data scientists who wanted to apply their skills for the common…