Tamsin Coryn-Wyllie is a project manager, community development leader, and data consultant. Her interest in systems change was ignited whilst working with young people who were falling through the cracks in the education system. She transitioned to community and international development and worked predominately in conflict-affected areas supporting educational outcomes for young people. Tamsin’s appreciation of place-based approaches for reforming systems further deepened when she took up the role as the learning, measurement and evaluation lead at Logan Together, Australia’s largest collective impact initiative.
In this Episode, Tamsin shares her insights on place-based work; the systems-level change and reform that’s possible, and the challenges of understanding the contributions of the change through measurement. Tamsin shares examples of potential shifts in the many systems that are layered within a place that affects the people who live there. We talk about practical implementation examples, and the types of data that are used and collected to understand place. Tamsin shares her insights to value and risks of data and machine learning to bring new knowledge for social challenges. We explore the shift of local communities claiming their data story by including all citizens and people in the narrative, shifting the deficit story to a strengths-based story.
Tamsin shares her perspective on the power of the data age and profound opportunity of asking questions of data to democratise data access for people across society. We talk about the challenges, risks and AI applications in community development, specifically the risks of bias for decision making to address social challenges and how to combat the risks. We explore human accountability and who is responsible when deploying AI applications.
We talk about her journey to develop her skills in data science for anyone who wants to deepen their capabilities to use data as a tool for societal change.
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