Insights
Building CrisisConnect.
Founder writing about the problems behind the product, alongside carefully sourced evidence on community operations.
From the founder
How the platform emerged from real community work, and the decisions behind its design. A short series on Medium.
The spreadsheet isn’t the problemWhy the first spreadsheet is rarely the issue: it’s the second, third and fourth, and the answers scattered across them.Read on Medium ↗Your spreadsheet stops at your organisation. The need doesn’t.How a paper form for household goods led to a bigger question: what if independent organisations could connect when a person needs them to?Read on Medium ↗What if community data didn’t start with another reporting spreadsheet?What becomes visible when the numbers come from the work itself, rather than being typed out again for a report.Read on Medium ↗
Follow on Medium →Evidence and policy
What independent research and policy guidance say about connected support, and the limits of what technology can solve.
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