Seer Data & Analytics – vision, mission and purpose
Seer Data & Analytics is democratising data and bridging the data divide with data infrastructure solutions that allow people to access, analyse, and share data in a single platform. Seer empowers people with data-driven storytelling, collaboration, shared learning, and decision-making to understand complex social issues, and solve them together.
Co-founder & CEO Kristi Mansfield outlines the problem Seer Data & Analytics is solving for our community government, not-for-profit and service provider customers around Australia, and the vision to take Seer’s data-driven solutions to the world.
An introduction to Seer’s Customer Ecosystem
Co-founder Kristi Mansfield
Co-founder and CEO Kristi Mansfield is an inspirational thought leader, published author and industry leader on the use of data for social benefit.
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Co-founder Adam Peaston
Co-founder and Chief Data Scientist Adam Peaston is known in the community sector as a leading data scientist with a customer-centric focus.
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Case study: data-driven community transformation
The challenge
- Limited access to current and relevant data and resources for decision-making and self-determination to drive change at the local level.
The data
- Engaged stakeholders who now understand the data gaps, and what they need to take control of their future vision.
- The Open data Burnie needs is held by government who need a data solution to share it with Burnie and other communities.
Forecast outcomes
- Collective impact, shared learning and measurement, data ecosystem and indicator mapping, map the data ecosystem, trust and engagement built between all stakeholder to deliver the shared future vision for Burnie.
Building Australia’s first data sharing intermediary platform
Pre-Seer challenges:
No option but to engage expensive consultants to produce needs-assessments and local context reports which are out of date from day one.
Seer solution:
Pre-Seer challenges:
Organisations data queries forces through bottleneck of IT teams slowing iteration toward the ‘right questions’ and stifling innovation.
Seer solution:
Self-service data analytics with Open data aligned to frameworks for decision-making around needs for programs and services.
Data sharing infrastructure involving private Data Spaces that can connect to existing data sources, self-service data ingestion, and automated report generation.
Pre-Seer challenges:
Data unavailable for decision-making by partners, inability to demonstrate the value of data sharing, and comply with Closing the Gap requirement to share data with First Nations Communities.
Seer solution:
Pre-Seer challenges:
Inefficient and ineffectual use of funding. Focus on chasing money rather than effective distribution and planning of efforts for outcomes.
Seer solution:
Data sharing, collaboration, and storytelling. Local data sovereignty, and community transformation enabled through localised data sharing.
Shift from a funding-driven to community-driven decision-making enabled by true data democratisation.
Seer Data & Analytics Board of Directors
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