Step 1. Information gathering

[cyberbikepunk]

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Project steps

• Information gathering
• Concept
• Project Specification
• Sprints

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Project description

The first step is akin to information gathering, marketing study. During the brainstorming we came across the following ideas:

• Marketing focus group
• Internet research, summarising
• National / international workshop: the title would be "NGO transparency in the digital age".

It would have been really fitting to organise it as part of the re-publica.de conference. It's too late for this year. I think we should definitely register for 2017: one year goes very quickly and even if the project has already moved on it will be very useful to get some feedback. That doesn't stop us from organising something in the immediate future.

• Interviews with NGO finance officers / managers / communication officers. The idea is to understand their needs and NOT impose anything on them. This has to be a partnership. Or else the project will fail.
• Questionnaire Like in marketing, as soon as we have a broad idea, the second step is to narrow down the ideas and send a questionnaire out to help us build the project requirements.

[cyberbikepunk]

Deliverables

They could be:

• Videos of interviews
• A website showcasing the project (includes the videos)
• A market research report (need to get some inspiration from the people who do this professionally). Hello Nina.
• A clear description of the next step

[cyberbikepunk]

Focus

The way to be efficient with a project is to identify the best idea and really focus on it. I think the best idea is the Conference/Workshop. Such an event would have several benefits:

1. Help lay down the project requirements
2. Get NGOs onboard
3. Get visibility

[ninabreznik]

Deliverables (update)

• market research
  • first we would need to do basic interviews to get a feeling for the topic and problems
  • based on the findings we organise focus group (moderated conversation between charity representatives so get in depth info and opinions on topics and to understand their problems/challenges)
  • questionnaire (based on this group dynamic conversation between potential customers/experts in this case we can make a proper questionnaire, get answers from a representative sample that will help us make a specification for our product)

[ninabreznik]

BRAINSTORM

Donor Management Software

• Network for good
• ToDo: Maybe to attach to their API and develop the tracking system

BlockchainDB

• donor pays through blockchain
• possible usage of BigchainDB (@sbellem)
• blockchain charity tracking search keywords

[AshrafNassef]

Hi. I am in now. From where to start?

[ninabreznik]

Hey @AshrafNassef, welcome. We came to the point where we figured out we need to get more information about how the charities work, what is their experience/opinion on tracking their donations and other info that would help us understand the "market" better.

So, do you have any resources to get the insights we would need? We will get back to brainstorming soon, but currently Alex (@serapath) and I are finishing the concept for the Grants for refugees so after that we go back to this idea. But first things first :)