5 Top Jargons That Will Help You Make a Big Social Impact Presentation

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5 Top Jargons That Will Help You Make a Big Social Impact

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INTRODUCTION (1/2)

We all want to make a social impact, in one way or the other; knowingly or unknowingly, whether it’s for personal satisfaction or to show off. Back in the day, the only ways you would do it is by donating money or time.

Well, broadly that hasn’t changed but now we have newer ways to achieve them, primary reason being the increased use of technology and awareness campaigns in the social sector.

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INTRODUCTION (2/2)

NGOs / Non-Profits are generally slow to react to these changes since majority of people who are most equipped to bring about this change choose a six figure salary in the Silicon Valley over the social development sector.

With time, more and more organizations are getting exposure and a lot of that has to do with what donors they work with and how good they are in reacting to changes. Also, there is an emerging breed of highly qualified and up to date workforce that is keen to bring about changes in the development sector, the efficient way.


#1

Open Data / Democratization of Data


• Idea that data should be freely available for research and analysis without any mechanisms of control like patents, copyrights.

• Potential to make a huge impact if organizations and users across the globe are made aware of the benefits.

• A number of open data initiatives like data.gov.in, data.gov and data.gov.uk already exist. At an international level, the United Nations has an open data website that publishes data from Member States and UN Agencies.

• While doing prescriptive or predictive analysis for an NGO we look for open data that can be married to the NGO data to get a complete data set, as a result of which the insights that we get from analytics is way more accurate.

• http://opendatahandbook.org/ is a great resource if you want to know more.


http://opendatahandbook.org/


#2

Information and Communications Technology (ICT)


• Umbrella term that includes any communication device or application, encompassing: radio, television, phones, computer etc. as well as the various services and applications associated with them, such as videoconferencing and distance learning.

• ICT for the Development sector (ICT4D) is aimed at bridging the digital divide and aiding economic development by ensuring equitable access to up-to-date communications technologies.

• At Xtage, we are working on a solution for the health ministry of a country in Africa where they will now be able to do surveys on mobile tablets thereby saving substantial amount of time and resources spent on error correction and converting the data to digital format.

• https://ict4dblog.wordpress.com/ is a good blog to follow.

ICT

https://ict4dblog.wordpress.com/


ICT


#3

Monitoring / Real-time Analytics


• Routine collection of information against a program. Organizations use this to learn about their own activities and results.

• Information might be about activities, products or services, users, or about outside factors affecting the organization, program or project.

• Falls between the planning and evaluation steps.• Adding real time analytics can help in spotting patterns

or areas of concern, allowing M&E (Monitoring and Evaluation) and Program officers to intervene at a much earlier stage, eventually saving a lot resources.

• Predictive analytics also allows the team to compare real-time data to baselines.

• Monitoring need not be expensive and complicated.

Monitoring / Real-time analytics


Monitoring / Real-time Analytics


#4

Evidence Based Decision Making (EBDM)


• Current and best evidence is used in decision making. Evidence can be internal or external.

• Internal evidence is composed of knowledge acquired through formal education and training, general experience accumulated from daily practice, and specific experience gained from a project instance.

• External evidence is accessible information from research. • Explicit use of valid external evidence (e.g., randomized

controlled trials) combined with the prevailing internal evidence that defines a decision as “evidence-based.”

• Common in patient care. Recognizes that clinicians can never be completely current with all conditions, medications, materials or available products, and provides a mechanism for assimilating current research findings into everyday practice in order to provide the best possible care.

Evidence Based Decision Making


Evidence Based Decision Making


#5

Visualization


• Primary goal is to communicate information clearly and efficiently via statistical graphics, plots and information graphics.

• Donors are not keen to see long pages of narratives and bland excel charts as a part of the donor report. They want to understand what has been done with their money in the most interactive way possible. Even the program / project leads want to get a routine snapshot on the progress of the program / project so that timely intervention can be done if needed.

• Endless ways to showcase data. Management Information Systems (MIS) these days is a necessity and a number of NGOs are plugging that data to create wonderful visualizations for the team, board, donors or any other stakeholder.

Visualization


VisualizationThe follow visualization shows discrepancies in interview candidates based on race, gender, and ethnicity.


VisualizationA guide to who is fighting whom in Syria.


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