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COLERIDGE INITIATIVE ANNOUNCED DEMOCRATIZING OUR DATA CHALLENGE WINNERS

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Tuesday, March 15, 2022

CHEVY CHASE, Md., March 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Coleridge Initiative, Inc. announced the first-round winners of the Democratizing our Data: A Challenge to Invest in Data and Evidence-based Policy on Tuesday, March 15. The Democratizing our Data Challenge was designed to build on successful investments made by government agencies to collaborate, develop, and scale tools and practices—such as dashboards, reemployment portals, applied data analytics training programs, and data models—in order to have better evidence that informs education and workforce policy.

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  • CHEVY CHASE, Md., March 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Coleridge Initiative, Inc. announced the first-round winners of the Democratizing our Data: A Challenge to Invest in Data and Evidence-based Policy on Tuesday, March 15.
  • "The first round of the data challenge, launched in September, was a huge success and garnered an enormous amount of interest," said Julia Lane, chief scientist of the Coleridge Initiative.
  • Support for the Democratizing our Data Challenge and the Multi-State Data Collaboratives convening is provided by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Ascendium Education Group, Overdeck Family Foundation, and the Walton Family Foundation.
  • The Coleridge Initiative works with government agencies to break down the barriers to accessing confidential data.