Tag: Tech4Dev Project Updates
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Tech4Dev 2.0 Project Report #5 – Jul 2023
Vision: A world with a strong technology ecosystem powering the social sector Mission: Build and support the ecosystem of software, data and design companies, nonprofit partners, and foundations working towards creating social impact globally 2023 – Q2 Summary Q2 2023 saw us evolve as an organisation. We set goals for both our Technical and Executive…
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Dev Data Platform – January Recap
Here I’m sitting near marine drive writing this blog and thinking about all the conversations I had with NGOs over the last two weeks. I have a lot to talk about regarding what we’re doing with the Data Platform. We had our third sprint with NGOs this year and for me personally, this was different…
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Goalkeep at the Tech4Dev Sprint Jan 2023
How do we build data culture within nonprofits, and what does that even mean? … is a question we have been obsessing over at Goalkeep this past year. We’ve figured that one key element of data culture is the ability to put data into the hands of individuals and teams with minimal repetitive effort. But…
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Goa: My First Sprint
I almost didn’t make it to this sprint, but more on that later. I did make it to Goa and Goa didn’t disappoint. The sprint location was wonderful, the weather was gorgeous and beach shacks were close by for local food and drinks. The cool, crisp mornings and stunning sunsets book-ended the day nicely. We…
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My First Tech4Dev Sprint
This blog is written by Ishan Koradia EMPATHY I recently attended my first-ever sprint organized by Tech4Dev in Goa, a place where people from diverse ethnic backgrounds live in harmony and speak their own dialects. Given its pluralist roots, I feel it was the perfect location to bring together all the NGOs. It was very…
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An open-source community / ecosystem being built – Work in Progress!
It was great attending the quarterly Tech4Dev sprint in Goa. I reached Goa on Sunday, 15th Jan in the afternoon and left on the morning of Wednesday, 18th Jan. The programme was divided into Avni and Glific sprints with some overlap between them. For people of my generation, the Information Technology revolution (which is no…
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Goa Jan Sprint – Recap and Reflections
Have been in Goa for 8 days now, first for the BMW Responsible Leaders Conference in North Goa, and then for the Tech4Dev sprint in South Goa. I’m hoping that other folks from the OpenBrackets, Development Data Platform and Glific teams will soon post their version of the sprint events. The Avni Project has already…
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Tech4Dev 2.0 Project Report #3 – Jan 2023
Tech4Dev Mission Build and support the ecosystem of software, data and design companies, nonprofits, and foundations working towards creating social impact globally. More information: Tech4Dev 2.0 Note, Tech4Dev 2.0 Pitch Deck 2022 Recap – Year in Review 2022 – We’ll take a different approach to this report, always good to change things up. While we…
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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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Education cohort — sprint 2
This is a second in series of a four part update on our Education cohort. Read the first part here — link Brief intro On Friday 16th September, Glific concluded the second of the four education cohort sprints of the year. Glific’s Education cohort is a year long engagement with NGO partners who work towards improving learning…