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Responding to Disruptions in Funding: A case study from impact technology
OpenUp shares hard-won lessons on nonprofit funding resilience: Treat income as strategic, decentralise business development, balance grant and…
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Working Paper II: Risk and design
How to innovate with AI and technology in a risk-conscious way
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Tweeting for Accountability: Exploring NPA Accountability using Twitter
Social media platforms like Twitter have gained immense popularity as tools to communicate with the public. Using an accountability framework we…
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Our big data, is another woman’s story
This article highlights the importance of having available sex-disaggregated data spanning over numerous indicators of economic, physical and social…
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What's the real impact of COVID? Making a case for sex-disaggregated data.
Gender is emerging as a significant factor in the effects of COVID-19 in various aspects of life. This article focuses on the importance of Sex…
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Researchers, problem-solvers or problem-explorers
Civic Tech is an exciting space to work in as the work we do and the technology we build have real-world applications that grapple with a number of…
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OpenUps Approach to Flexible and Intuitive User Testing
How OpenUp used Webflow to efficiently implement flexible and intuitive user-testing in the Case Management System project
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Human Action: the key to good Civic Tech research
A deep dive into the various phases of user-centered research and what we learnt through the adoption of this person-focused research technique.
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Can you be evicted during alert level 3 of lockdown?
Evictions can be granted during level 3 but tenants will not be forced to leave their homes until level 2 lockdown
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Open Courts: Innovating access to justice
Open Courts provides the public with access to high court records from around South Africa
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Tax Clock 2020: How much of your work day is spent paying taxes?
Did you know that you don’t just pay taxes in Rands, but in hours too?
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Storytelling is the most powerful way to put ideas into the world
OpenUp supported six young teams that set out to tell stories about corruption in South Africa
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