Project Accelerator Night: World Toilet Organisation, Riverkids and Care Corner

Our Project Accelerator Night (PAN) will bring together experts with data science and analytical backgrounds to help non-profit organizations take the first steps to a successful data science project.

To ensure that our discussions are productive, we have to limit the number of people that can attend this PAN. Unfortunately, that means that not everyone who wishes to attend will be able to. Please do think about the RSVP questions and how you will be able to contribute to the discussions. Sign up if you’re ready to be an active participant!

For this event, we will be featuring the World Toilet Organization (WTO), Riverkids and Care Corner.

Agenda

6.45 - 7.10pm: Registration and check-in (food and drinks will be provided)

7.10 - 7.30pm: Introduction to our featured non-profit organizations

7.30 - 7.40pm: Presentation on common data modeling issues faced by small organizations.

7.40 - 8.40pm: Break-out for group discussions

8.40- 9pm: Reconvene to share learnings, and see how this can be brought forward

Special thanks to ThoughtWorks (http://www.thoughtworks.com/) for being our venue and food sponsor!

Representative Questions

WTO: What analysis can be done on their available data? What gaps are there in the data? What kind of survey can be conducted on their beneficiaries?

Riverkids: What is the best way for Riverkids to consider data that changes on an irregular basis? What can be done about some of their issues like non-unique spelling of names? What analysis can be done on their existing data?

Care Corner: What data should a volunteers’ database include? How should it be structured? Is there a better way to track volunteer hours than manual sign in sheets?

How it works

Each non-profit organization will have its own breakout group of interested volunteers and a facilitator to spend the evening brainstorming, conversing and discussing ideas to help the organization get ready to embark on a data project. There will not be any data or coding.

General discussion topics

• What is your organization's goal? What does the world look like when you succeed?

• What is the biggest problem you're facing?

• What does your data look like (specific questions as needed)?

• What types of questions can you answer with the data you have?

• What problems do you have with your current data?

• Where can you find or how can you better collect the data you need?

• What do you think you can takeaway from this discussion, and what will be a good next step?

World Toilet Organization (http://worldtoilet.org/)

Founded in 2001, the World Toilet Organization (WTO) is a global non-profit committed to improving toilet and sanitation conditions worldwide. Over the past 14 years, WTO has promoted activism, advocacy and development of sanitation solutions through marker based approach.

• Activism though humour and fact focused effort to bring the lack of sanitation issues to the global media centre stage

• Advocacy campaigns which had lobbied governments, public and private sector stakeholders and the international community to prioritise sanitation in the development agenda.

• Sanitation solutions through SaniShop

Riverkids (http://www.riverkidsproject.org/)

Riverkids Project Limited is a charitable non-profit corporation in Singapore that funds and manages Riverkids Foundation, a Cambodian non-governmental organisation registered in 2007. In Cambodia, some children may be at risk to be sold as debt slaves, domestic drudges, illegal adoptions, cheap labour and child sex workers. Riverkids works to prevent child trafficking by working directly with families at high risk for trafficking. All the children in Riverkids’ project are at high-risk for being trafficked. Their families are unstable due to addiction, divorce, abuse or extreme poverty.

Care Corner (http://www.carecorner.org.sg/)

Care Corner Singapore is a multi-service social agency and registered charity which seeks to impact the lives of people in Singapore by providing care and sharing love. It does this through a network of services including family service centres, senior services, children and youth services, special needs and other specialist services such as counselling and family violence intervention.

There will be more background material available for those of you who are attending. Where relevant, this will include existing database schemas and sample data.

RSVP questions:

1. Which organization would you like to break out with:

• WTO

• Riverkids

• Care Corner

2. How do you think you can you contribute to that specific organization?