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An overview of frequent concepts to be covered in an agreement.

Context When you gather data from people you should seek their voluntary consent to participate. This will apply when you are hosting speakers, recording meetings (in audio, video or via photographs), conducting surveys or interviews – any time you are collecting information from people in digital form or that will...

Context Website Terms of Service can cover a range of information, but usually explain what information is collected (and link to the privacy policies), how users may use information on the site (copyright, licenses), the jurisdiction where the site information is stored (US, international, multiple) and how/who to contact with...

Context There are many different ways to handle this kind of information. Some organizations make no ownership claims on it. Others use a variety of licenses that allow for sharing and reuse. Others claim copyright ownership. Funders often require grantees to use certain types of licenses.  The samples in this...

  Here at Development Initiatives and Development Research and Training (DRT) we are currently piloting a ‘Joined-Up Data’ study in Uganda. We have been working in the rural districts of Kitgum and Katakwi, following the emergence of two issues: (1) the really bad results of students completing primary education, and (2) the unacceptably...

The Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities (BRIDGE) is a new collaborative project that aims to revolutionize information sharing, in order to better understand the flows of philanthropic dollars and enhance transparency and effectiveness in the global social sector. BRIDGE is a system that assigns non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other...

Sunand Menon, previous Markets For Good guest author of one our most highly visited posts, has offered a recent thought piece (Stop Assuming Your Data Will Bring You Riches) that deserves a deeper examination. I’d like to use it to raise more questions (not give answers) about the pathways to...

Markets For Good is pleased to welcome Mark Arnoldy, Executive Director of Nyaya Health,  a complex operation in that it operates on the front lines of a few themes we’ve covered: beneficiary insights, open data, nonprofit decision-making, and this month’s theme, data privacy, among others. It was Mark’s own experience...

Evaluating your organization’s programs is not trivial, but it’s necessary—and well within reach. Laura Quinn and Andrew Means bring theory down to shoe leather with a real-time case study that demonstrates not only how to measure nonprofit performance, but also how to incorporate the correct software tools (and use of them)...

A simple dinner for two with great conversation and an elephant under the table… In our previous series, Evaluation, we touched on the structure of capital in the social sector. Melinda Tuan, in A Listening Tour, A Call To Action, argued that “the fundamental problem underlying… capacity constraints is how...