Author: Kurund Jalmi
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Aam Digital
Aam Digital is an easy-to-use case management software for the social sector that empowers field workers in their in-person interactions with participants. Having simple, reliable documentation helps improve the effectiveness and transparency of projects. For example, Aam Digital helps social workers and teachers of an education support programme to easily manage all information about students’…
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Development Data Platform
The Development Data Platform (DDP) provides a low maintenance, low cost, SaaS data platform composed of open source software elements to tackle data ingestion, storage, transformation and visualisation. It mirrors a modern data stack found in the private sector, while specialising in integration tools and is tailored to the needs and goals of the development…
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My 3 months journey
This blog is written by Ankit Saxena, Fractional CxO at Reap Benefit and Indus Action through Tech4Dev It has been 3 months since I joined the Tech4Dev group. I think it’s a good time to review my journey so far and share my experiences. When I was joining the Tech4Dev group I had detailed conversations…
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Lessons from the Fractional CxO program – Arjav Chakravarti & Erica Arya
We are quite happy with the way our Fractional CxO(x:Tech,Data and Strategy) initiative has been received by the community. We were confident of the need for such a program but post running it for the last 3 months with 3 different NGO partners both sides are actually getting to see first-hand the significant value that…
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Women In Technology Fellowship
This is a paid fellowship for women from technology institutions; we solicit candidates from all years of college. Tech4Dev runs this fellowship with its partners and focuses on engineering institutions from Tier II and Tier III cities. The program mentors fellows in a wide range of non-tech related subjects such as written and oral communication…
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Fractional CxO
NGOs typically don’t have in-house technical expertise and they feel intimidated by technology. Often, the NGO staff have the vision but because of their non-technical backgrounds, they feel unable to engage with technology professionals. This pattern is fairly prevalent in the social sector in India. Over the past few years, Tech4Dev has built a network…
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Avni
Avni is an open-source platform for community service provisioning. Using Avni, organizations can easily create applications for their fieldwork programs for managing their interactions with community members, recording and reviewing community members data. Avni goes beyond data collection/reporting and provides a complete solution. Avni is sector agnostic, already used to power a wide spectrum of applications…
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Glific
Glific is a WhatsApp based two-way communication platform (and SaaS service). Glific uses a combination of automation and manual processes to enable NGOs to easily scale to thousands of conversations a day with few staff. It empowers NGOs to distribute content, provide the right information at their pace & get feedback over Whatsapp. Glific also integrates…
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Tech4Dev 2.0 Project Report #2 – Oct 2022
Tech4Dev Mission Building the Open-Source Technology + Data Ecosystem for the Social Sector. More information: Tech4Dev 2.0 Concept Note, Tech4Dev 2.0 Pitch Deck Summary & Highlights Q3 2022 – In the evolution of a startup, there comes a time, when you just get the feeling. The definition and articulation of the problem becomes a lot…
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Tech4Dev Sprint: Supporting tech use for non-profits as a collective
This blog is written by Sebastian Leidig, from Aam Digital This September, Tech4Dev has invited us, Aam Digital, a few NGOs, and other members of the collective to Dehradun for another one-week “sprint.” There are already a lot of enthusiastic reports and reflections on the blog. I will try to highlight the biggest insights I…