Data Friendly Space
Valeria R. M. is the President and Founder of Chaski Global, a creative agency established in November 2013, focused on making a positive impact inspired by the Incan messenger tradition. Valeria's extensive experience includes serving as an Adjunct Professor at the Federal Executive Institute from February 2015 to November 2019, and as a Corporate Communications Executive at Pike Electric Corporation from December 2013 to June 2015, where responsibilities involved strategic communication and corporate messaging. Prior roles at the Millennium Challenge Corporation included Senior Communications Officer, Implementation Communications Officer, Program Analyst for Moldova and Malawi, and Program Assistant for Latin America, emphasizing culturally-sensitive communications and cross-departmental collaboration. Valeria holds a Master’s degree in Public Relations and Corporate Communications from Georgetown University and multiple degrees in International Relations and Hispanic Studies from Trinity College-Hartford, as well as studies at Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Boston University.
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Data Friendly Space
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Data Friendly Space (DFS) is a 501(c)(3) non profit organization based in the United States with a presence in Switzerland, Germany and Nepal. DFS’ guiding principle is to improve information management and analysis capacity, tools and processes in the humanitarian and development community to enable better informed and more targeted assistance. DFS focuses on creation of data centric web applications, websites and mobile applications to support humanitarian organizations in extracting actionable insights from their data and execute their missions. In addition to software development and cybersecurity services, DFS also provides a range of analytical services focused on strengthening data collection and analysis capacities in humanitarian emergencies. DFS also focuses on the intersection between data automation processes powered by Artificial Intelligence and human knowledge, and in particular when one can help the other to execute analysis. We have been working with numerous IGOs and international organiaztions based in Geneva, such as the UN (and its various bodies, UNHCR, OHCHR, UNEP, UNFPA), IFRC, DFID, JIPS and IDMC. DFS team is composed of experts from the humanitarian information management and analysis field who specialize in real time secondary data review and development of humanitarian apps that support timely extraction of information from large volumes of unstructured data. DFS staff is closely linked to the DEEP initiative (thedeep.io) and part of the benefits from DFS contracts directly contribute to the maintenance and further development of DEEP.