NONPROFIT CIVIL SOCIETY CSR SOCIAL ENTERPRISE PHILAntHropy 23 Can Start-Up Mode Founders Lead to Scale? 30 Technical Snag: Getting Started on Digital Strategies 38 Face-Off: Drone Agriculture in Asia 47 Hack That: Community-Led Solutions the Way Forward? Edition 25 | JUL-SEP 2018 | /AsianNGO | www.asianngo.org/magazine | US$10 th Edition 07 - 09 NOVEMBER, 2018 Saigon Exhibition & Convention Center (SECC), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Vietnam’s International Water Supply, Sanitation, Water Resources and Purication Event Raise your brand visibility to the right profiled targets Engage with key-decision makers, leaders, and industry professionals coming from multiple industries from 41 countries and regions Showcase your products, solutions and technologies to 15,000 local and global trade visitors Network with +500 industry fellows showcasing their products at Vietwater 2018 BOOK YOUR SPACE TODAY! Contact Us Ho Chi Minh Office: Hanoi Office Malaysia Office International Sales Enquiries Tel: +84 28 3622 2588 (ext: 138) Tel: +84 24 6294 3860 Tel: +603 2176 8788 Tel: +603 2176 8788 Contact: Ms. Toan (Kelly) Contact: Ms. Vicky Vu Contact: Ms. Haza Contact: Ms. Vicky Tan Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.vietwater.com Table of Contents 30 teChniCaL Snag: getting Started on digitaL StrategieS PHOTO FEATURE Does technology offer anything apart from fundraising and networking 36 AmpLiFying a capabilities to the typical non-profit? How does a non-profit go on this digital new generation journey? Meera Rajagopalan explores. 23 Can Start-Up 38 FaCe-Off: drone Graphics, stock photos by flaticon.com, freepik.com, 123rf.com, Pixabay, Unsplash and Getty Images Mode FoUnderS Lead agricultUre in Asia • Reuters/Juarawee Kittisilpa to SCaLe? • Santa Cruz Tech Beat Drone technology, with its precision, • First ResponderApp.com can help farmers assess and predict • eVidyaloka Not necessarily, writes Kriss • Milaap Deiglmeier. When social innovations crop health and prevent losses. As • Operation Asha enterprises work to scale up usage of • Lulu Ash, for Arts Awards and Noise Solution are ready for growth, leaders need to • Ten Photos to Shake the World Photo Contest ask themselves whether they possess drones in African agriculture, iMPACT • AIM Media Team takes a look at the feasibility of using • Sagasitas the skill sets required to take the • Bettr Barista organisation to scale. the technology in Asia, from various • HarrassMap perspectives. • Penelope Boyer • Trevor Lee, WindNest • Land Art Generator Initiative • AidEx • Aniruddh Kaushal/DigitalGreen • TRITHI Robotics India 2 iMPACT | July - September 2018 www.asianngo.org/magazine 4 Editor’s Note INTERVIEW 6 Events 28 Bridging the Disconnect: 8 News Duncan Macintosh 10 Numbers & Quotes 13 This Caught Our Eye 42 Innovation is going to be the Differentiating Factor Between FEATURE Nations: R. Ramanan 16 The Skype is the Limit by Nandhini Shanmugham COVER STORY 30 Technical Snag: Getting Started 50 Serving Up Social on Digital Strategies Commitment by Meera Rajagopalan by Meera Rajagopalan PHOTO FEATURE 56 Let There Be Art 36 Amplifying a New Generation by Ian Jamotillo FACE Off 60 Mapping Safety 38 Remote Possibility? Drone by Shivranjana Rathore Agriculture in Asia COMMENTARY BOOKS 19 See. Cry. Click. Donate. Smile. 62 Book List: 6 Books for More The Rise of Crowdfunding for Powerful Social Impact in a Healthcare Changing World by Shivranjana Rathore RESOURCES 23 Can Start-Up Mode Founders 27 How to Build an App for your Lead Organisations to Scale? Cause by Kriss Deiglmeier 46 5 Simple Tech Hacks to 25 Beyond the Hype: Keeping a Common Non-Profit Critical Eye on Blockchain for Emergencies Social Impact by Paul Lamb 55 The Making of a Digital Imprint: Secrets to Effective Social 47 Hack That: Community-Led Media Branding Solutions the Way Forward? 47 haCk that: by Shivranjana Rathore 66 Open Calls for Grants Community-Led 53 You Are… the Weakest Link HUMOUR IN DEVELOPMENT SoLUtionS the way by Peter John Francisco 67 Enter the Social Technology Forward? Entrepreneur 58 Strengthening the Hands by Meera Rajagopalan When a non-profit has a tech problem that Help that can be solved, traditionally, a by Caroline McLaughlin MARKETING FEATURE hackathon has stepped in. But in the age 63 Why Humanitarian Aid and of Industry 4.0, can technology be used 64 Keeping It Simple: Technology Development Is Entering a to empower the community to innovate for Small-Scale Farmers Critical Digital Phase internally? Shivranjana Rathore finds one likely solution. by Susan Thomas /AsianNGO iMPACT | July - September 2018 3 Editor’s Note Dear reader, Publisher & CEO Sreenivas Narayanan Industry 4.0 is here, if the internet is to be believed. The revolution, as it is being called, Managing Editor seems to be a seamless transition from the digital controls of the third; yet, it stands alone Meera Rajagopalan for its near-complete takeover by machines and data. What seemed like evidence of Humankind’s mastery over machines in the first three instalments increasingly looks like Editorial Associate Ian Jamotillo the setting of a sci-fi book, with machines taking over humans just one step away. Editorial Staff One salient feature of Industry 4.0 is its immense scale and therein also lies its potential Shivranjana Rathore within the social sector. Impact is no longer in the thousands but in the millions, powered Nandhini Shanmugham by the sheer interconnectedness that technology spawns. Creative Director Kelvin Tee A 2017 report from the Business & Sustainable Development Commission pegs the “market opportunity” of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at USD $12 Senior Multimedia Designer trillion. A significant chunk of this, it is estimated, will come from technology-enabled Joseph Lontoc innovations and solutions. Blockchain technology has entered the conversation, staking Nicole de Leon claim to a decentralized system of finance and processes that will transform the way aid is Multimedia Designer disbursed. The ordinarily-named Internet of Things is a virtual hold-all for technologies Eugine Nisperos not captured by narrower nomenclature, and it too promises to deliver solutions toward Roberto Guerrero achieving the SDGs. Countries are creating digital policies, proactively formulating rules for the use of drones in agriculture, and looking at ways to stay on top of technology. Director of Business Development Aru David Amidst all this hullabaloo lies the typical social organisation: mostly befuddled by all the Marketing Team hype; yet curious for the potential to completely transform their work. Many of them have Parth Gautam not seen the impact of technology except in their online fundraising efforts. Like a scene Cynthia Tram behind a frosted glass, the contours of Tech for Good are visible; yet, the exact mechanics Riza Banaag of it still seem a bit vague for many practitioners. Web Administrator Chris Daria In this issue, we try and take a look at some of the specifics of Technology for Good: how non-profits can (and have) adopted technology, when we need to curb our enthusiasm (and For Subscriptions how) and the questions that must be posed even as we adopt a particular technology. 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