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1 | Name of initiative | Lead organisation(s) | Objective | Link | Type of content | Regularly updated/ maintained? | Notes | Contact | |||||||||||||||||||||||
2 | Research repository | Practical guides | Opportunities for users to interact | Examples/Project reports | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
3 | Badili | Development Initiatives – Africa Hub, The Open Institute, Hivos East Africa and the Association of Freelance Journalists | hub and online resource to facilitate the sharing of stories and experiences, initiatives, content, and generally track the developing narrative around the Data Revolution in Africa | www.badili.org | Forum (few users/posts) | Links to articles | Site down as of Aug 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
4 | Bond | Bond | enable organisations to be more effective in reaching their development goals through the provision of training, effectiveness tools and advocacy support | http://www.bond.org.uk/effectiveness/small-ngos#samples-and-templates | Summaries of research articles http://www.bond.org.uk/effectiveness/research | Yes | Through membership: events, self-assessment tools | Yes, active community management | |||||||||||||||||||||||
5 | CrisisMappers | N/A, started by Patrick Meier | http://crisismappers.net/ | probably | yes | email list, in-person events | yes | Yes | closed community, must be a member, | ||||||||||||||||||||||
6 | DataLook | DataLook | DataLook showcases the latest and best data-driven projects for social good | http://datalook.io/about | Organisations can post requests for help from ICT professionals | Case studies (orgs can post their own) | Little activity (Aug 2017) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
8 | DIY Toolkit | Nesta | toolkit on how to invent, adopt or adapt ideas that can deliver better results. It’s quick to use, simple to apply, and designed to help busy people working in development. | http://diytoolkit.org/about/ | Yes | Yes (MOOC added 2016) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
9 | eCampaigning Forum | Fairsay | a loose network of practitioners using digital media for campaigning (advocacy) - most notably through a well-used mailing list | http://fairsay.com/networks/ecampaigning-forum | List of discussion summaries (last updated 20120 http://fairsay.com/@@search?Creator=ecfc&sort_on=created&sort_order=reverse) | Mailing list | Active mailing list, some guides out of date | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
10 | Ella (Learning and Evidence from Latin America) | Practical Action | inspire development policies and practices that are grounded in evidence about what works in varied country contexts | http://ella.practicalaction.org/about | Yes - summarised from other sources (eg http://ella.practicalaction.org/node/1264), and finding gaps | Only institutionally (not online) through 'research alliances' - linking researchers from Lat Am and Africa/South Asia | Yes | Regularly updated | |||||||||||||||||||||||
11 | Equitas Community | Equitas | The Equitas Community is a private interactive communication and collaboration service offered to human rights educators and activists directly related and engaged with Equitas. | https://community.equitas.org/login/index.php | closed community, not sure | closed community, not sure | discussion forums | closed community, not sure | Unsure | They also published an article about their experience managing an online community of practice - http://idl-bnc.idrc.ca/dspace/bitstream/10625/50477/1/IDL-50477.pdf | |||||||||||||||||||||
12 | Feedback Labs | Consortium of US-based organisations | to help provide the structure and design principles that will maximize the effects of global citizen engagement efforts. | http://feedbacklabs.org/toolkit/ | Yes | Membership options http://feedbacklabs.org/membership/ | Yes, in toolkit | Yes, active community management | |||||||||||||||||||||||
13 | Information Activism | Tactical Technology Collective | brings together info-activism strategies, digital tools and case studies from around the world - an excellent introduction to the world of information activism. | https://howto.informationactivism.org/basics | Yes | Yes | Not since 2014? | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
14 | KnowHow Non Profit | NCVO | to be 'the place for voluntary sector people to learn and share what they have learnt with others' | http://knowhownonprofit.org/ | 300 (some user-submitted) | Yes - forums, user-submitted content | Regularly updated | 9-person team, started in 2009. Allows users to request a how-to on a particular topic and vote for it http://knowhownonprofit.org/how-to/howtomeasureyourcharitiesinfluence | hello@knowhownonprofit.org | ||||||||||||||||||||||
15 | Knowledge Hub | Commonwealth Foundation | library of organisation's own resources | http://www.commonwealthfoundation.com/knowledge-hub | Internal reports/publications/blogs | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
16 | Knowledge Repository | Global Partnership for Social Accountability | strategic and sustained support to civil society organizations’ (CSOs) social accountability initiatives | http://gpsaknowledge.org/category/knowledge-repository/#.VX--uxOrSHo | Project reports, policy papers (and abstract) | Yes | Yes (through online course/webinars, also potential to submit own resources) | Yes | gpsakp@fundar.org.mx | ||||||||||||||||||||||
17 | Knowledge Repository | Transparency and Accountability Initiative and U4 | systematize and provide access to existing knowledge on citizen participation, prioritizing its relationships to transparency and accountability | http://www.transparency-initiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/TAP-Knowledge-Repository-Concept-Note.pdf | Planned to contain "Structured and formal knowledge, practical evidence from projects" | Concept note only | Concept note issued 18 months ago - delayed or postponed? | nils.taxell@cmi.no | |||||||||||||||||||||||
18 | Mobilisation Lab | Greenpeace | test and improve use of technology in campaigns, within and outside Greenpeace | http://www.mobilisationlab.org/about/ | Yes - on campaigning strategies eg 'Vanity Metrics' | Yes, on social media, campaign integration etc | #MobLabLive events are hosted each month | Yes, active community management | |||||||||||||||||||||||
19 | New Tactics in Human Rights | Center for Victims of Torture | Creating/sharing information, creating online community of human rights defenders | https://www.newtactics.org/ | Strategy Toolkit/Resource Library | Online conversations with experts (50+) and forum-style discussion | 49 case studies https://www.newtactics.org/tactics/case-studies | Yes, active community management | |||||||||||||||||||||||
20 | Non-Profit Tech for Good | Non-Profit Tech for Good | providing valuable, easy-to-understand information, news, and resources related to nonprofit technology, online communications, and social and mobile fundraising. | http://www.nptechforgood.com/ | Short blogs and how-tos | Webinars on social media strategy | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
21 | NTEN | Non-Profit Technology network | facilitates the exchange of knowledge and information on technology within its NGO members | http://www.nten.org/community/membership/ | Hosts 'Communities of Practice' on issues inc data - forum style https://community.nten.org/communities | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
22 | Open Knowledge Hub | Institute for Development Studies | improve the supply and accessibility of content that supports evidence-informed policy making and practice in international development | http://www.okhub.org/ | Yes - open-licensed metadata from research documents from libraries including Eldis, BRIDGE, British Library for Development Studies | Yes | Funded by DFID: £4.5m over 3 years - http://r4d.dfid.gov.uk/Project/61047/Default.aspx | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
23 | Open Knowledge Labs | Open Knowledge Foundation | We're a community of civic hackers, data wranglers and ordinary citizens intrigued and excited by the possibilities of combining technology and information for good – making government more accountable, culture more accessible and science more efficient. | http://okfnlabs.org/ | email discussion list, chat on Gitter https://gitter.im/okfn/chat regular online meetings | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
24 | Organisers' Toolbox | New Organizing Institute | videos, templates and resources for your organizing, campaigning and training work. | http://archive.neworganizing.com/toolbox/ | How-tos, videos on basic topics | Unsure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
25 | SendasAl | IDS and Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies (Uruguay) | generate and share information between different actors about importance of gender perspectives in development (Spanish) | http://www.anacaonas.net/ | case studies, good practice examples, research papers and report | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
26 | Social Accountability Atlas | Results for Development | help users identify and learn about civil society-led social accountability projects, and connect with the people leading them | http://saatlas.org/ | Categorised case studies, with contacts of organisations | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
27 | (plus) social good | Social Good Summit | SocialGood is a global community where connectors come together to share world-changing ideas and spark action in our social media era. | http://plussocialgood.org/ | online discussions | yes, lots of sharing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
28 | Social Tech Census | the engine room | a collection of resources for using tech in advocacy. It includes training, guides, events, communities, organizations and more | https://socialtechcensus.org/ | Yes (short summaries) | Not really (option to contribute, but managed in a top-down way) | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
30 | Solutions Center | NetHope | bringing together the knowledge and power of more than 41 international humanitarian organizations so that the best information communication technology and practices can be used | http://solutionscenter.nethope.org/ | Searchable database of 161 toolkits and guides | Webinars on specific issues, option to submit content | Case studies (categorised) | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
31 | Technology for Transparency | Global Voices | Documenting the use of online and mobile technology to promote transparency and accountability around the world | http://transparency.globalvoicesonline.org/ | Case studies, categorised by theme and region | Ended in 2014, some projects older | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
32 | TechSoup Community | TechSoup | connecting your nonprofit, charity, or public library with tech products and services, plus learning resources to make informed decisions about technology. | http://forums.techsoup.org/cs/community/f/ | Large collection of articles and how-tos (not well organised or easily searchable) | Active blog, but many other aspects outdated | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
33 | The Hub | WITNESS | host citizen-submitted video | http://blog.witness.org/2010/08/update-on-the-hub-and-witness-new-online-strategy/ | Videos | Yes | Ended in 2010 | Impressive stats on user engagement (see link) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
34 | ESCR Monitoring Working Group | Center for Economic and Social Rights | harnessing innovative tools and techniques to monitor the actions of governments and other actors from a human rights perspective. On this site, group members can connect to exchange ideas, build knowledge, share good practices and discuss critical issues around monitoring economic, social and cultural rights | http://monitoring.escr-net.org/ | Reports/Articles/Essays | Toolkits etc | Monthly discussions in forum-style | List of featured projects | |||||||||||||||||||||||
35 | Tools4Dev | Tim Brack, Piroska Bisits Bullen | To help people find the many useful tools that are already available and explain how to use them in easy-to-understand language. | http://www.tools4dev.org/about/ | Guides on general development issues (gender, project planning etc) | Tool reviews | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
36 | Listening Post Collective | Internews, various | offers resources, tools, peer-to-peer support and a shared learning space for journalists, newsroom leaders and community groups looking to revitalize their local news and information ecosystems. | https://www.listeningpostcollective.org/about | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
37 | Non-Profit Tech.io | John Emerson | a lightweight, socially curated resource for non-profit technologists — and non-profit-curious — a sort of Hacker News for Social Change. | http://nptech.io/ | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
38 | Open Innovation Toolkit | Mozilla | a community sourced set of best practices and principles to help you incorporate human-centered design into your product development process | https://toolkit.mozilla.org/ | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
39 | ICT Hunt | Pollicy | Discover ICT Tools. Find great resources, reviews and learn from the experts | http://icthunt.pollicy.org/ | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
40 | Alidade | The Engine Room | Use Alidade to create a plan for finding technology tools that suit your social change project. | https://alidade.tech/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | (fairly) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
41 | Awesome List - Tech for Good | Cast | A selection of projects, organisations and useful tools for social-impact tech. Inspired by awesome-python, awesome-dataviz and all the rest. | https://github.com/TechforgoodCAST/awesome-techforgood | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||
42 | OGP Toolbox | EtaLab | a collaborative platform that gathers digital tools developed and used throughout the world by organizations to improve democracy and promote transparency, participation and collaboration. | https://ogptoolbox.org/en/ | Information about each tool, tags by category, and potential use cases | Yes - opportunities to add pros and cons of a particular tool, as well as use cases. | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
43 | Advocacy Accelerator | Amref Health Africa | The Advocacy Accelerator works to strengthen advocacy capacity, alignment, and impact by providing online and in-person platforms for advocates and their supporters to share evidence, approaches, and expertise. | http://www.advocacyaccelerator.org/ | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
44 | Civic Tech Field Guide | Joshua Tauberer, Micah Sifry, Erin Simpson, Matt Stampeck | An attempt to organize the civic tech field by compiling hundreds of civic technologies and grouping them to see what patterns emerge. | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FzmvVAKOOFdixCs7oz88cz9g1fFPHDlg0AHgHCwhf4A/edit#gid=963594345 | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
45 | Digital Technologies for Resilience | FHI360 | to identify digital technologies that have the potential to enhance resilience outcomes, particularly in Asia. | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1N7iShoZR7S2kzXEMDbcEa6koYLot15qY-1BGP5NKABQ/edit#gid=718069479 | Yes | Unclear | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
46 | ICT4D Guide | Gabriel Krieshok | This is an open and accessible guide to help field staff in 'information and communication technologies for development' (ICT4D) projects around the world. | https://www.ict4dguide.io/3-topics/data-responsibility.html | Yes | Sept 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
47 | The Social Change Project | Sheila McKechnie Foundation | Set of UK advocacy projects | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RPPwf1_jXh2xYf30N3iTYfLEHmDfGHCd2NFTKnCwzBg/edit#gid=0 | Yes | Oct 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
48 | Civic Tech Projects and Orgs | Code for Africa | Code for Africa is building an online platform for reuseable civic tech tools | https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1GykfqSTxxhXbzszjOrBFuWNruqDXBNiDQNHNpT8Mn4k/edit#gid=0 | Yes | Dec 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
49 | Civic Software Checklist | pudo.org | A growing number of civil society organisations and news organisations produce software. This document collects tips to tackle two common challenges they face | http://pudo.org/projects/checklist/ | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
50 | Toolkit.ngo | Public Interest Registry | Learn the basics of creating a memorable Internet presence, and take advantage of online resources to expand your reach, visibility and audience engagement. | http://toolkit.ngo/ | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
51 | TransparenCEE | TransparenCEE | Our research and analysis will help you to get up to speed with the most important trends in civic technology in Central and Eastern Europe | https://transparencee.org/resources/ | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
52 | Blueprints for Change | Tania Mejia, Jacqui Howard, Kunoor Ojha, Nicole Regalado and Amara Possian. | an open library of advocacy how-to’s put together by campaign innovators in order to help progressive organizers and groups up their game more quickly. | http://blueprintsfc.org/ | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
53 | Social Innovation Community | Multiple, including Nesta, SIX, Young Foundation, DRIFT | Tools developed during the SIC experimentation in the five host centers are presented. The tools are organised depending on main activities/actions that can support the development of a social innovation. | https://www.silearning.eu/tools/ | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
54 | Method toolkit | Butterfly Works | Tools developed through almost 20 years of going through design processes with teams that have a majority of non-designers and often have different cultural backgrounds. | http://butterflyworksorg.cloudnice.managedomain.nl/storage/app/media/Butterfly%20Works%20method%20toolkit%20-%20website.pdf | Yes | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
55 | Design Method Toolkit | Media Lab Amsterdam | The MediaLAB Amsterdam Design Method Toolkit enables you to get started and enrich your design process. A collection of design and research methods: categorised to help you select, time based to help you plan. Plan and execute your design research, ideation, experimentation and creation within short iterations. | https://medialabamsterdam.com/toolkit/ | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
56 | Playbook for Innovation Learning | Nesta | The playbook has been created for innovation practitioners who want to spread innovation skills, methods and tools | https://www.nesta.org.uk/toolkit/playbook-for-innovation-learning/ | Yes | Yes | No | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
57 | Joined Up Data Standards | Development Initiatives | explores how data published to competing standards can be made usable, and how development data standards can be designed, improved and governed to enable greater interoperability. | http://devinit.org/post/projects/joined-data-standards/ | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
58 | Global Delivery Initiative | GDI and multiple partners (WB etc) | a collaborative effort to create a collective and cumulative evidence base of delivery know-how to inform development practice and improve implementation. | http://www.globaldeliveryinitiative.org/learning-program | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
59 | CLA Toolkit | USAID | a growing set of curated tools and resources on Collaborating, Learning and Adapting to help you plan and implement Program Cycle activities more effectively | https://usaidlearninglab.org/cla-toolkit | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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