Community Education Centre

The second pillar of the CICP is our commitment to building a lasting and flexible infrastructure to promote access and understanding of the data collected about the sector. A crucial component of this infrastructure is the Community Education Centre (CEC), which features Data Literacy courses, starting with Data Literacy 1.0.

The below modules are open to the public and are intended to act as a resource to help actors and decision-makers in the sector better understand the data available to them.

Learning to Interpret Data

Data literacy is often described as the ability to examine, analyze, and communicate with data in a critical and ethical manner. Our aim is to increase participants’ confidence in working with data while promoting critical and ethical reflection in data use.

Data literacy is broad, but it’s principle is critical. Data is all around us and being able to collect, read, and communicate it is vital for informed decision-making. Especially today, where ‘big-data’ is growing increasingly, proper data-literacy is more important than ever for organizational success.

The following data literacy courses are intended to help professionals working in the charitable and non-profit sector collect, read, and/or communicate data in a meaningful way. All modules are open to the public, free of charge.

Data Literacy 1.0