LabStorm: Improving Government Responsiveness
ideas42 is a nonprofit organization that uses applied behavioral science to create innovative solutions that encompass health, education, consumer finance, safety an
LabStorms are collaborative brainstorming sessions where a group of organizations come together to help one organization wrestle with a feedback-related challenge. They operate in Chatham House rule, meaning no information will be tied back to a particular attendee, but in these blogs we share the anonymized major learnings from each session. If you would like to participate in an upcoming LabStorm (either in person or by videoconference), please drop Corey a note via [email protected]
LabStorm: Online Listening Done Right
RNW Media is a Netherlands-based NGO that gives young people a voice in restrictive societies across the Middle East, as well as North and Sub-Saharan Africa. RNW works with local partners to nurture online communities of youth to take part in robust, safe, and respectful discourse. These online communities supp
Celebrating 100 LabStorms: A Simple Tool For Transformational Change
The 2018 Feedback Summit began, as it often does, with a flurry of excitement and energy as attendees filtered into the Main Hall, balancing muffins on the rims of their coffee cups and exchanging warm greetings with old friends and new acquaintances. Many are quick to notice and remark that the Summit is different from many other conferences — not only more intimate, but more innovative and experimental.
Labstorm: Linking Data and Decisions: How Can We Use Data to Influence Government Behavior?
The Development Gateway Aid Management Platform (AMP) solves the data gap by providing governments across the world with a central platform to track development and aid data, such as donor commitments and disbursements, and visualize it through a dashboard and geographic information system (GIS) map.
Fishing for Solutions: Can Feedback and Social Media Create Scalable Sustainability in Fisheries?
Three billion people worldwide rely on fish as a major source of protein and 1 out of every 10 people depends on fishing for their livelihood. With fish populations declining worldwide, many of these people are at risk for loss of income and food insecurity.
LabStorm: Trust Takes Time
How can we spark growth and opportunity in communities that are struggling? It takes collaborative leadership from diverse stakeholders. Impact Experience b
LabStorm: Including the Voices of Homeless Austinites in Public Procurement Processes
In the past 3 years, homelessness has increased nearly 30% in Austin, Texas. Despite this increase, shelters still operate beneath capacity and sometimes, homeless individuals are seen sleeping on the street next to shelters with empty beds.
Do(Zorro)ing Open Contracting Right: What are the tools citizens need to stop corruption?
Pre-revolution, Ukraine was known for having one of the most corrupt public procurement systems in the world. In response, Transparency International Ukraine, in collaboration with the Open Contracting Partnership and support of the
LabStorm: Embedding and Embodying Our Commitment to Feedback
Praekelt.org is a mission-driven organization that builds mobile technologies to solve some of the world’s largest social problems. Over the past ten years, they have grown from a scrappy startup of three to a team of 60 spread across three continents.
Labstorm: How Can Feedback Build Trust Between Communities and Government?
The Accountability Lab works to encourage a world in which resources are used wisely, decisions benefit everyone fairly, and people lead secure lives.