“The New Data Culture for Hawaiʻi” Discussed at the 2022 Hawaiʻi Book and Music Festival
Nick Redding, Executive Director of the Hawai‘i Data Collaborative (HDC), was invited to discuss “The New Data Culture for Hawaiʻi” on the Innovation Panel at the 2022 Annual Hawaiʻi Book & Music Festival.
Moderated by Chad Blair, politics and opinion editor at Honolulu Civil Beat, panelists included:
Nick Redding, Executive Director, Hawaiʻi Data Collaborative
Terry George, President & CEO, Harold K.L. Castle Foundation
ʻAtalina Pasi, Community Health Worker, Hui o Hauʻula and Population Health Specialist, Papa Ola Lōkahi
Providing a zoomed-out data perspective, Nick discussed how HDC is thinking about the potential of data, data culture, and data sharing in Hawaiʻi:
HDC is guided by a shared vision of a Hawaiʻi where quality, timely data is the norm and informs how we all respond to our pressing challenges;
Limited timely and local data, over-reliance on lagging national data sources, and limited data capacities across stakeholders to gain and share data insights are what holds all of us back from doing more with data in serving our community;
And innovative, community-based examples, like the Koʻolau Housing Hui, are leading the way in investing in data capacities that enable timely data sharing across multiple stakeholders to gain data insights and effectively respond to current and evolving community need.
