The NGO Clarity problem tackled as part of the 2011 Oxford Random Hacks of Kindess event

1. NGO Clarity
Dirk Gorissen (Southampton University)
Ben Foxall (White October)
Dinesh Venkateswaran (TechSoup, Project Owner)
Chris Wallace (Freelance)
Russell Law (Freelance)
Contact: dvenkateswaran@techsoupglobal.org

2. Dear Donors, there is information on
NGOs!
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3. But, how will you know if the data is the
truth?
Registrar of
Karwani Islami Society 3823 of 91
Societies
Registrar of Registration no?
Karwani Islami Society 73
Societies
Registrar of
Karwani Islami Society 2891
Societies
Same parent organisation for all NGOs!
ACANI Prerna Deep, Lambaline
Junglighat P.O Andaman & Nicobar 0000000-00000
Islands Pin 744103
Phone numbers?
ARPAN Enem Post & Village -
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Ograbraj Port Blair S.Andaman
Where’s the post-code?
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4. But, how will you know if the data is the
truth?
CHAITANYA JYOTHI WELFARE Andhra I SRINIVASA
AP/2009/0011621
SOCIETY Pradesh RAO
Many organisations with same name!
CHAITANYA JYOTHI WELFARE Andhra
AP/2009/0022962 Srinivasa Rao
SOCIETY Pradesh
CHAITANYA JYOTHI WOMEN Andhra
AP/2011/0039631 Ch appala raju
WELFARE SOCIETY Pradesh
Registered before Registrar existed!
http://ngo.india.gov.in/ng
10/03/1957 Port Blair
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No such place exists
http://ngo.india.gov.in/ng
o/f5d0ad3909bc0948675
05/01/2001 bheemsingh
9191fea37cc15.red-rose-
thumb4902292.jpg
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5. But, how will you know if the data is the
truth?
Sectors Working In/ Key Issues Operational Area-States
Animal Husbandry, Dairying & Fisheries, Agriculture, Children,
Disaster Management, Drinking Water, Education & Literacy,
Environment & Forests, Health & Family Welfare, Housing, Land
Andaman and Nicobar
Resources, Micro Finance (SHGs), Nutrition, Panchayati Raj, Rural
Island
Development & Poverty Alleviation, Tribal Affairs, Vocational
Training, Water Resources, Women's Development &
Empowerment, Youth Affairs Every sector under the sun!
Aged/Elderly, Agriculture, Art & Culture, Children, Civic Issues,
Differently Abled, Disaster Management, Drinking Water, Education
& Literacy, Environment & Forests, Food Processing, Health & Family
Welfare, HIV/AIDS, Housing, Human Rights, Information & Andaman and Nicobar
Communication Technology, Legal Awareness & Aid, Micro Finance Island
(SHGs), Minority Issues, Micro Small & Medium Enterprises,
Nutrition, Panchayati Raj, Right to Information & Advocacy, Rural
Development & Poverty Alleviation, Sports,
Biotechnology Assam
Aged/Elderly, Art & Culture, Disaster Management, Education &
Andaman and Nicobar
Literacy, Health & Family Welfare, Sports, Vocational Training, Youth
Island 5
Affairs

6. Options
Go Verify TRUTH
Public Data
Or learn to figure out by just looking at
the data!
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7. What can we infer from the data?
NGO Clarity gives you...
Data Availabilities 
Individual Data Quality 
Aggregated Quality 
Standards Compliance 
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10. Technology
• MS Excel – Data
• Rules engine and Presentation – Python
• JQuery, BootStrap
• Eclipse, Django
• XML, XPath, XQuery (alternative approach)
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11. Solution improvements & related problems
Data Sourcing Inferencing Presentation/ user features
User-defined
Multiple Learning
rules
source algorithms
formats
Geo-coding/
heat-maps/
Configurable rules overlays
Pre-
processing to
eliminate Choice of data
errors sources
Cross-verification
with other sources
Linking to actual
records
Integrating
datasets
Agent behaviour Browser Plug-in
for rating @
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12. Credits
Dirk Gorissen – Analysis and Lead Implementer
Ben Foxall – UI developer
Russell Law – solutions consultant
Chris Wallace – Database modeller
Dinesh Venkateswaran – Problem definition, analysis
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