Category: Open Source Software
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My journey through building a Data Pipeline + Thoughts on Jaipur Sprint
NGOs in recent times and especially in a post-COVID context are collecting large amounts of data – operational and beneficiary related that could drive insights across their programs and internal organization. In the past few years, this data comes from multiple sources (Apps, Surveys, Messaging, IVRS). But, lack of technical personnel capacity, cost, and knowledge…
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Ideas from diverse lenses: Facilitating an ideation workshop for OpenCity
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea, when it’s the only one we have .” — Émile Chartier Just like in many areas of life, this famous quote by French philosopher Émile Chartier holds a lot of truth when it comes to the design and development of technology. While ideas are the life-breath of any…
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Open City: Asking the right questions
As part of the Tech4Dev cohort, in March 2020, we kickstarted the re-design of Open City, a city level data repository hosted and developed by Oorvani Foundation and Data Meet. The purpose of the redesign was to make the platform more accessible and user friendly. It was exciting to start this because it let us…
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Aligning design with product goals
When we started with Glific, we had a bunch of feature ideas in mind and a goal to achieve for the NGO end users. As is the case with all products. It was about solving a challenge, our users being the non-profits. There was not much form to that goal in the beginning, just a…
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WHEN COOKIES TELL STORIES: insights for opencity from google analytics
Three months ago, Oorvani Foundation and CivicDataLab embarked on a collaborative journey to redesign OpenCity, an urban data portal visited by over 50,000 unique users every month. We set out to learn about our users, their experiences on the platform and their dreams for the future of this city based open data hub. An important…
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Github Badges: How it fulfills Glific’s need
GitHub badges, a consolidated way to present concise pieces of information about a project. These badges help in increasing the readability of the readme file because they provide metrics about the repositories that help the readers to get a clear idea of the repository very quickly just by scanning the attached badges. For Glific, we’ve…
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Here’s how a chat platform can improve human lives
The quality of information a person can access, can be a direct indicator of the quality of life they live. For some of the more vulnerable sections of society, it can play an even crucial role. In the most recent example of the COVID-19 pandemic, information became a matter of life and death. The right…
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Product research for open source chat platform
It’s been a week that our team has been interacting with various NGOs. Throwing multitudes of questions at them and learning everything we can about their interaction with their community of influence (or beneficiaries). They’ve been walking us through their processes which covers what they communicate and how. We’ve been hearing about their experiences with…
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A data driven approach to curb the zombie that is 66A
The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) has over the past year conducted a broad range of work, including original research, approaching the supreme court and citizen engagement to stop the menace of Section 66A. IFF, which works with an objective to protect our digital rights, is now taking yet another step, with support from CivicDataLab and…