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Research Outline
Prepared for Patrick P. | Delivered August 26, 2019
Digital Online Communities
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Goals
Identify examples of online communities that are focused on the intersection of technology and socially relevant work. The information will be used to identify communities who might be interested in a newsletter.
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Early Findings
DIGITAL ONLINE COMMUNITIES
KOBOTOOLBOX
Kobotoolbox
offers a nonprofit endeavor that was created by the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.
It is an open-source
compilation of tools
that can be used to collect and analyze data for humanitarian crisis situations.
The organization is headquartered in
Cambridge, Massachusetts
.
It also operates in
developing countries
.
Kobotoolbox has an
online community
where the users can talk about development concerns, post questions, and other similar discussions.
Tino Kreutzer
posts prominent announcements on the community site.
He is employed at the
Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
.
He was the
leader of the team
that developed the Kobotoolbox platform.
He can be reached through his email address:
tino@tinokreutzer.org
.
TECHSOUP
Techsoup provides "
transformative technology solutions
" and knowledge to those organizations who are involved in socially relevant work.
The organization
operates in the United States
and in other international territories.
Techsoup has an
online community
where staff writers share relevant articles and relevant updates.
The community site also
accommodates users' inquiries
and other concerns.
Elliot Harmon
is one of the staff writers that is featured in Techsoup's community.
Elliot can be reached through Techsoup's
contact form
.
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