Inspiration

From CharityScorecard

Contents 1 Openness and Transparency 2 Data Visualization 3 Collective Intelligence and Knowledge Aggregation 4 Triage and Cost-Benefit Philanthropy 5 Structured Content and Web-Based Collaboration

Openness and Transparency

• The Transparent Society by David Brin
• The Creative Commons — open content and open publication
• The "Open Process" culture developing on some wikis and open source projects
  • The Zope Fishbowl Process
  • The Meatball wiki page on Open Process

Data Visualization

• Hans Rosling's 2006 TED talk
• Edward Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Collective Intelligence and Knowledge Aggregation

• The Wisdom of Crowds
  • The Wikipedia article about the Wisdom of Crowds
  • The book itself: The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
  • An mp3 recording of James Surowiecki's talk at the 2006 SWSX conference
• The Wikipedia — simple tools, open content, open collaboration
  • (also of interest: Jon Udell's 8-minute "screencast" about the a single Wikipedia page)
• The Iowa Electronic Market — predictive markets
• The GlobalGiving 2005 Marketplace — web-based collaborative philanthropy

Triage and Cost-Benefit Philanthropy

• The Copenhagen Consensus and the book Global Crises, Global Solutions
• The World Bank's cost-benefit analysis of work on their projects — PENDING: find web page
• The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG)

Structured Content and Web-Based Collaboration

• Chandler — item-level addressing, item sharing, item categorization
• Lotus Improv — structured spreadsheets, pivot tables
• The del.icio.us site — collaborative categorization