Azavea and CloudFactory: Partners on Quality Training Data and Social Impact

At Azavea, our mission is to create advanced geospatial technology and research for civic and social impact. That mission has led us to some interesting places - we've worked with the World Bank to try to reduce traffic accidents globally, created open source tools for applying machine learning to satellite imagery, and even testified in court based on our research into gerrymandering and how to solve it. Aiming for civic and social impact in our work is so fundamental to our constitution as a company that we've written it into our charter. And as a Certified B Corporation, we participate in bi-annual audits on everything from our carbon footprint, to employee compensation, to our involvement in our local Philadelphia community. Suffice to say, in order to pursue these rather lofty ideals we find ourselves tending to take the long view when weighing business decisions... the really long view.