GlobalGiving :- an Agile approach to the Japan Earthquake Disaster, and international development
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Trying to tell the story of the first five days follow the March 11, 2011 Japan Earthquake. There are three challenges: collecting money, finding orgs to best use it, then learning whether this money served the needs of the people. This is my attempt to explain what happened, and what I think helps follow-up the immediate disaster response.Agile (a programming philosophy) is what allows GlobalGiving to effectively react after a disaster and support first responders on the ground.(was a Pecha Kucha, but these are hard to understand without the audio component - so I expanded it.)
Transcript of GlobalGiving :- an Agile approach to the Japan Earthquake Disaster, and international development
An agile approach to the Japan earthquake
disaster, and international development
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http://chewychunks.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/millions-of-lives-saved-by-good-government-in-japan/
250 new orgs, 7 days
What we thought we would be doing…
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Visits: 60,000/day10X increase
That was the easy part.
Now the hard part:
• Getting the money to the right place.
• Learning whether you met the needs of the people.
(the storytelling project)
http://chewychunks.wordpress.com/2010/07/15/geo-mapping-gaps-and-gluts-in-haiti-disaster-aid/
Story-based approaches:
Map what’s happening through stories
Map NGO-networks
Map NGOs that work alongside each other
(through stories)
Underlines Key:-- GG partner-- Story project partner-- Non-partners we want to invite to GG-- 2 or more shared scribes
Stories connect NGOs serving the same communities
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patterns emerge
GlobalGiving
Network of 300 NGOs in East Africa
NGOs recruit scribes
Scribes ask people in their community (earn 10 ksh / story)
Stories + patterns delivered back to everyone (web, SMS, meetings)
