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.)

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An agile approach to the Japan earthquake

disaster, and international development

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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)

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)