BACK: Which existing tools have the features you need?

2.3 Which projects have used technology to do similar things?

tips

Need ideas? Try:

- Results for Development’s Social Accountability Atlas
- Sunlight Foundation’s list of organizations using Open Data
- The Global Partnership for Social Accountability (GPSA)'s Knowledge Platform

case study

“In the UK we saw the website of a peer organization and saw what others in similar monitoring networks were working on.

We gathered information from peer organizations in other countries, and this contributed to changes and additional functions.” -- A participant in our research.

resources

Join a mailing list used by similar organisations and ask questions:

useful ones include those by the Poplus project, Sunlight Foundation, the Open Government Partnership, the eCampaigning Forum, MySociety's TICTec, NRGI's ResourceProjects, the Follow the Money network, the InfluenceMappers community, the Non-Profit Technology Network (NTEN), OpenDataKit, the Parliamentary Monitoring Organisations list, and the CrisisMappers network.
Pro bono sources of help include Kabissa, an Africa-specific peer network offering resources to improve the use of ICT in community orgs; DataKind, which creates teams of data scientists who work together with non-profit organisations to help them solve problems involving data; DoingGood Fellows, which connects non-profits with professionals who have technology skills.

See something missing? Email us and we'll add it.

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2.3 Which projects have used technology to do similar things?