Forward LA, Data as a Driver of Social Innovation, 2017-04-27/2017-04-28

Forward LA: Race, Arts, and Inclusive Placemaking after the 1992 Civil Unrest conference, Data as a Driver of Social Innovation. While data continues to become available at an increasing rate, there remain challenges to leveraging these data to facilitate regional wide assessments of social innovation. Some of the current challenges include a lack of current and consistent data, as well as the ability to demonstrate the relationships between various data sets, i.e. neighborhood crime and suspension rates within a particular school system, or neighborhood foreclosure rates and childhood obesity levels. This session will discuss what is necessary for data to become an intervention that facilitates neighborhood change, and how community actors can use these data to achieve collective objectives, 2017 April 27-28.