Nov 6, 2013 | Businesses, Monitoring and Evaluation, Social Impact, Technology
Mobile privacy and data security have become a big topic as more and more NGOs use mobile phones as a way to disseminate information and engage their clients. Jenny Adlem discussed these issues in her blog post addressing the potential benefits and pitfalls of big...
Oct 31, 2013 | Businesses, engageSPARK Platform, Market Research, Technology
Building engageSPARK has involved a great deal of research about various subjects. One area that we’ve spent a lot of time analyzing is how to send and receive SMS messages and voice calls throughout the world. We believe that the self-service mobile automation...
Oct 23, 2013 | Businesses, engageSPARK Platform, Market Research
Two weeks ago, our Lead Designer Sunny Yang gave a presentation on user experience design (UX design) techniques and principles to a sold-out crowd in Cebu City, Philippines. TechTalks.ph, a Cebu-based organization that is an “independent community of business,...
Oct 16, 2013 | Businesses, Market Research, Monitoring and Evaluation
Usability testing refers to a technique used in user-centered interaction design to evaluate a product by testing it on users. Usability testing is a central part of the design process to help improve and launch a product (website, service or physical product) that is...
Aug 28, 2013 | Businesses, Social Impact, Uncategorized
Over the last few months, two new developments have arisen regarding social enterprise legal forms. First, Delaware has passed new legislation enabling organizations to incorporate as a Benefit Corporation – what some have called “historic Benefit Corporation...
Jul 3, 2013 | Businesses, Humanitarian Agencies, Social Impact, Technology
Many of the articles on our blog focus on mHealth and mWomen interventions. Yet, such a large segment of the population in developing countries are smallholder or subsistence farmers (for example 65 percent in sub-Saharan Africa). This, along with the statistic that...
