In less than 100 words, what is your idea?:
Help Community Service Organisations (CSOs) answer the question ‘am I helping the people who need it most’ by enabling them to easily test their (de-identified) service provision data against a range of population measures (SEIFA index, nationality information, income data, etc). Results would be displayed as charts/maps to show information such as ‘How many <insert refugee nationality>’s do I provide services to compared to Census data’ (similar for SIEFA index, etc). Sharing of insights and good practice would be encouraged through a discussion area on the site.
What is the social need or challenge your idea could address?:
Most community service organisations struggle to adequately answer the question ‘am I helping who need it most?’ Wait lists are long, funding limited and outcomes uncertain. Some CSOs perform limited analysis of service provision, but tools and resources limit capacity. More detailed analysis has in specific instances lead to changes that include transition from in-house services to an outreach service model, or changed waiting list provision to give certain people priority. This tool aims to put this type of information in the hands of the decision makers to ensure are servicing the people most in need.
What’s really new about your idea?:
Leveraging web 2.0 to put the tools and information in the reach of CSOs who can then refine their service provision policy to benefit from the insights. The insights from better targeting of limited resources also has the potential to profoundly change who gets services first. Bringing this information together also gives the potential for new insights (no-one other than the AIHW assembles this information) that can influence government policy. If successful, the website could be expanded to support benchmarking of corporate services or client service provision. The potential for identifying clients that churn through multiple programs also exist (although some privacy challenges exist, but nothing impossible).
Re: Mighty mashups for mindful service targeting
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Re: Mighty mashups for mindful service targeting
This is a very interesting idea. I am considering floating another idea which might in fact be tied into this one, with its engagement with web 2.
There is a problem in the NGO sector that the really local organisations have great difficulty competing with the big charities, the major, rich, organisations which have had responsibility for big government projects. The big organisations have identity, they have dedicated pr and tender-applying staff, etc. Local organisations find it hard to be known but often have knowledge and efficiencies which can be of immense importance and economic as well as social and community value.
for the most part, people running this sector and such bodies have neither time nor mind-commitment to social networking, though it is in the social networking world that in future their needs need to be articulated. What I propose then is that this notion of using the bed to link organisations to data for self-review could be bound together with networking at human level for a variety of purposes... not by getting overworked community organisation managers to get their heads around new stuff, but by getting the nerdly world somehow engaging with them, helping them articulate, build and promote the community service industry. This is an idea from a person who is no social networking adept, who is 66 and is not the person next inheriting our world, offered to next generations.
Dennis
Re: Mighty mashups for mindful service targeting
Dennis, I'm right with you there, when you say that small organisations can't compete with the big ones. Small organisations generally don't have the time or the brainpower to analyse the tonnes of data that you need to measure effectiveness over time.
I don't think more tools will necessarily help the smaller CSOs. I do think engagement with the right sorts of people can make a difference to the outcomes.