Barry
Personal information
- Last name
- Barry
- Position
- Director of Data and Information Initiatives
- Website
- www.piton.org
- Brief Bio
Matthew Barry is the Director of Data and Information Initiatives in Denver Colorado. Since 2005, he has directed The Data Initiative - a foundation program founded on the belief that philanthropic and community building efforts are durable when informed by reliable and objective information. The initiative “democratizes information”, providing community and school level mapping, analysis and evaluation to empower individuals, policy makers and organizations to make better decisions as they work to improve their community.
Matthew’s interests include advancing social change by designing solutions (or stealing them), inventing, imagining, and innovating, ultimately leaving the world in a better place than when he arrived. Areas of emphasis include community development and evaluation, Data Visualization. GIS mapping, and research to support poverty alleviation, education reform, community organizing, and social change.
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For full bio see: http://matthewbarry.posterous.com/
Matthew Barry is the Director of Data and Information Initiatives in Denver Colorado. Since 2005, he has directed The Data Initiative - a foundation program founded on the belief that philanthropic and community building efforts are durable when informed by reliable and objective information. The initiative “democratizes information”, providing community and school level mapping, analysis and evaluation to empower individuals, policy makers and organizations to make better decisions as they work to improve their community.
Matthew’s interests include advancing social change by designing solutions (or stealing them), inventing, imagining, and innovating, ultimately leaving the world in a better place than when he arrived. Areas of emphasis include community development and evaluation, Data Visualization. GIS mapping, and research to support poverty alleviation, education reform, community organizing, and social change.
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