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Social Impact Lab @SIMLab

We help people & organizations make systems & services more accessible, resilient & responsive using inclusive tech like SMS, voice, radio, and humans

Joined October 2012
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Our FeedbackMechanisms.org site houses resources and case studies on building ways for communities to help govern projects. It had some broken links. We fixed them! Now back to sleep. feedbackmechanisms.org/publi… #MERLTech
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The first day of the full #MERLTech conference is a great day to commit to evidence-based practice in Tech for Social Change! ICYMI our M&E Framework: simlab.org/resources/mandeof… #tbt We miss you all.

SIMLab's framework for monitoring and evaluating inclusive technologies in social change projects

Our framework helps you design a monitoring approach and evaluation that will tease out the contribution technology has made to the social change outcomes in your project. Originally developed with...

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ICYMI, we wrote a playbook of the strategies you could use to disseminate content on basic phones, and it's on the internet for free. Enjoy! #tbt #inclusivetech #digitalforall zpr.io/nDJuW

Disseminating Content on Basic Phones

In 2015 the American Red Cross asked us to help them work out how best to get the content from their global First Aid smartphone app to the huge audiences around the world who had basic phones. To...

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ICYMI, the SIMLab Monitoring and Evaluation Framework is revised and updated, and launched with new evaluation criteria based on the #digitalprinciples #merltech #digitalforall zpr.io/nKftx

Guest Blog: Evaluating ICT4D projects against the Digital Principles

As I have written about elsewhere, we need more evidence of what works and what doesn’t in the ICT4D and tech for social change spaces - and we need to hold ourselves to account more thoroughly and...

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Our former CEO, @techladylaura, launching the new #M&E Framework on the @DIAL_Community site! zpr.io/nKftx

Guest Blog: Evaluating ICT4D projects against the Digital Principles

As I have written about elsewhere, we need more evidence of what works and what doesn’t in the ICT4D and tech for social change spaces - and we need to hold ourselves to account more thoroughly and...

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This week we launched the new and improved #M&E of Tech Framework, supported by @DIAL_Community. It turns the #digitalprinciples into evaluation criteria! We're still working on improving this so have a read and tell us what you think. zpr.io/nhrf3

SIMLab's framework for monitoring and evaluating inclusive technologies in social change projects

Our framework helps you design a monitoring approach and evaluation that will tease out the contribution technology has made to the social change outcomes in your project. Originally developed with...

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Free stuff! SIMLab, @intrac_UK, @cdalearning, and @WorldVisionUK tested feedback mechanisms for three years, and shared resources, case studies and a report on a dedicated website #tbt zpr.io/nmT3q
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A barrier to evidence in #ICT4D is missing ops data e.g. about staff cost and time. @kellymchurch reflected on that challenge for our #mobilemoney project back in 2016 #tbt zpr.io/nEdPG

Data collection nightmare: administrative costs

Stacks of administrative records with no digital counterpart

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#tbt 3 months to the #redrose hack. 3 things your COO should be doing, TODAY to head off reputational, legal and operational risks around #responsibledata security and management: zpr.io/nxhiM
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We were still working on a few ideas when we closed. We put them online in case anyone wants 'em... #tbt #freetoagoodhome zpr.io/nXYv7

Ideas looking for a home

We help make technology work for everyone.

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Today, #tbt to last year's consultation paper on the current realities of #responsibledata in civil society - @techladylaura is presenting our research at #ssirdata later this afternoon! zpr.io/nNNAD

Responsible Data versus Data Transactions: the coming culture clash

SIMLab's recent consultation on responsible data in practice demonstrated a deep disconnect between two opposing visions of data in social change work: one, rights-based and respectful of the...

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Looking back, @katgatewood's seven #nonprofit new year's resolutions were eerily prescient. Compare to @techladylaura's posts about our closing: zpr.io/naawV #tbt #socent zpr.io/naawB

What happened, part I: strategy fails

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#tbt to @kellymchurch's case study of our Kenya #MobileMoney project, feat. @FrontlineSMS Payments! We also publicly released the independent evaluation. zpr.io/nTsJA

Mobile Money in the Last Mile of Kenya

The Brookings Institute’s Financial and Digital Inclusion Project named Kenya as the top scoring country in the world for financial inclusion based on country commitment, mobile capacity, regulatory...

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Before we closed, we put all of our resources for ethical, evidence-based tech projects online for free. Check them out #tbt #responsibledata #merltech #commisaid #ict4d zpr.io/nYZfD
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#tbt to @keithporcaro's post showing you how to build the SMS appointment reminders and surveys we implemented using @FrontlineSMS for @baylegaljustice's low-income Bay Area clients zpr.io/nsGDx
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Thank you for the days Those endless days, those sacred days you gave me I'm thinking of the days I won't forget a single day believe me #tbt to the SIMLab story. :'( zpr.io/njfiU

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We're closing for good, today. Thanks so much for being part of our community. Check out final new resources, on disseminating content on basic phones, and an outline specification workshop. And don't forget to sign up for Betterbox.tech! buff.ly/2DBBnlw
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Social Impact Lab retweeted
Digital Civil Society Lab@DigCivSoc
26 Dec 2017
Digital Impact grantee @SIMLab recently collaborated on a #responsibledata consultation in practice that showed 2 opposing visions of data in social change work. Read more on the consultation w/ @CenDemTech, @futureofprivacy, and @EngnRoom. bit.ly/2Bkihzt #nonprofits
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Social Impact Lab retweeted
Feedback Labs@FeedbackLabs
22 Dec 2017
Announcing the 4th annual Feedback Summit in Washington DC! Save the Date October 4-5, 2018 to gather at the premier feedback event of the year #FBLSummit
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Social Impact Lab retweeted
The Engine Room@EngnRoom
19 Dec 2017
New position at @amnesty, check it out 👀 x.com/mattfwells/status/9431…

Matt Wells@mattfwells
19 Dec 2017
Great position open as part of our Crisis Response team @amnesty, helping lead our use of innovative research and analysis tools to document human rights violations and hold perpetrators accountable: careers.amnesty.org/vacancy/…
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