Contents 1 ProblemName 1.1 Owner 1.2 Summary 1.3 Use Case/User Story/Scenario 1.3.1 User story 1: Aid Evaluator App helps you to help 1.3.2 User story 2: What's next 1.4 Extra Credit 1.5 Similar projects and Resources 1.6 What next and Sustainability 1.7 Current State and Solutions

[edit] ProblemName

Aid Evaluator: Insight and oversight of available aid

[edit] Owner

Owner: Britt Rasmussen, founder of Aid Evaluator and the Charity Review

Proposed by: Aid Evaluator Contact: Britt Rasmussen, thecharityreview@gmail.com +45 30951419

Best way and times to contact (during RHoK 2.0 Dec 4/5 2010): e-mail or personally.

[edit] Summary

To list all available aid, so that it is easy to find for both those who need aid and those who wish to find a cause to donate to. A further aim is, to increase the level of trust of NGOs by making: overlaps, inefficiency, corruption etc. open for the public to report on. Ultimately, the result should be a better functioning aid delivery sector.

Targeted User Groups:

• People in need of aid; to help them find the nearest and best qualified aid.
• Potential donors, who wish to find the causes/charities that are best at living up to the principles of the individual donor.
• The NGOs Charities to increase their oversight, so that they can see, who works where, with what, and to increase the public’s reasons to trust them and, thereby, increase the likelihood of increased funding.
• For researchers; to be able to see the results of aid work and figure out, where the greatest need may be and, what the best methods for reaching the best results may be.

[edit] Use Case/User Story/Scenario

You see a homeless person and you want to know, if there is aid available for him/her, locally.

[edit] User story 1: Aid Evaluator App helps you to help

If the Aid Evaluator worked this would be an easy search; and you'd be able to help the person to a shelter, through a simple search of the nearest aid. Knowing there's no easy way to help, may make you just pass by and try not to care. To cover all local NGOs and topics, Aid Evaluator must rely on volunteer contributions. Volunteers encouraged to write about an subject and to register and rate offers of aid. The provider of aid, such as an NGO, has the primary editorial rights and these are similarly encouraged to register their profile. Their profiles will include a rating function, which of course no one may edit. However, the NGO should be able to reply to rating-comments, which accuse it of misconduct.

[edit] User story 2: What's next

To make aid easy to find for someone in trouble, a Google typed map should be able to list the offers of assistance within a specific area, in the least confusing manner possible. This would require a large search function, possibly in CMS?

[edit] Extra Credit

User evaluations and Aid Evaluator's own evaluations, based on available statistics and general priorities, needs to be set up. It should also be possible for people and NGOs to upload video, pictures and documents as evidence in a follow-up page, open for all, but subject to approval and perhaps including a spam filter.

[edit] Similar projects and Resources

Some have tried to deal with pieces of this puzzle but none has attempted to gather all of the relevant information, to provide both oversight and insight.

• The Charity Navigator, Guidestarand BBB all evaluate NGOs but mainly based on administration costs, which is neither a comprehensive, nor objective platform.
• Reuters AlertNet provides some oversight of emergency areas but not all and only very basic contact info og this aid, wich is not aimed at development and assistance for the public but mainly disaster areas, prone to violence.
• Also, UN OCHA’s Relief Web gathers a lot of information about emergencies but it is not aimed at individuals or sustainable development.
• Government and other public web-sites comely offer lists of aid, in a particular area or topic, but no one have gathered the information, so that it is comprehensive or easy to find.

[edit] What next and Sustainability

Solutions, which can be implemented directly, will be put in use immidiately on www.aidevaluator.com Like Wikipedia, the work will never be completed, but hopefully it will help people, where it is put to use.

[edit] Current State and Solutions

The RHoK in Århus made much of the ground work for a search function with google maps and a wiki, where those who offer aid may register themselves. Also a rating function was made for this page and a new layout was created. It is on a googlewiki if anyone wish to work on it. Otherwise what was made, at the RHoK 2010, should be meshed together and implemented at the Coding for Charity event in March 2011, Århus.