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

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Arijit Ganguly
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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.
You can read the complete article here.

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.
Open Data / Democratization of Data

Open Data / Democratization of Data

#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

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.

#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

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

Visualization
A guide to who is fighting whom in Syria.

THANK YOU
Please send any questions /
feedback to
arijit.ganguly@xtagelabs.com
Check out www.xtagelabs.com to
see examples and case studies on
how we help organizations using
data, analytics and visualization.

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