Presentation of the progress in our work with the influence mapping toolbox at the investigative journalism technology conference.

1. information innovation lab

2. Innovative Technology for Social Impact

3. Open Integrity Initiative - Digital Security and
Privacy
Open Oil Navigator - Oil and Gas Industries
Panic Initiative - Mobile App with Amnesty
Ultra-Rural Tech - Lake Tanganyika Medical Records

5. Agenda
●Context
oProblem, Process, Current Results
●Your Feedback
oStructure
oContent

6. Problem
How do I
get started with my
influence mapping
project ?
(who?)
(whose?)
(say what?)
(what kind?)

7. Goals

8. Process
Kick Off
Aug
2015
Sep
2015
Research
Structure
Oct
2012
Dec
2015
Content
Launch
Bit of Tech
Mid-Dec
2015

9. Survey

10. Journey Entry Points
Primary
● "How to identify data for your project?"
(Practices/Projects/Tools)
● "How to organise your data?" (Practices/Tools)
● "How to make sense of your data?"
(Practices/Tools)
● "How to present your data and findings?"
(Practices/Tools)
Secondary
● "Take a tour of the tools available"
(End User Tools)
● "What are the best approaches to build your
own tools?" (Dev Tools)
● “Who’s doing work like yours?” (Projects)
● “Influence mapping success stories” (Case
Studies)
● “Influence mapping essentials” (Practices)

11. Expanded User Journeys

12. Structure
Projects: Existing influence mapping project including projects aiming to provide
data to others
Tools: Include End user tools, such as spreadsheets or online services that don't
require development skills
Dev Tools: Libraries, Framework, Programming Languages, Database systems…
Practices: Activities, tasks (recipes) or methods that are linked to the practice of
influence mapping.
Case Studies: Detailed analysis of existing projects in order to help others learn
about various concrete practices
Guides, Data Providers,...

13. Practices

14. Tools

15. Projects

16. Guides / Case Studies
Abstract Use Cases
Growing the data little by little by themselves
Big data dump (like a leak)
Lead generation (Discovery, finding about a
new topic)
Concrete Use Cases
Police Corruption (Overview, Topic mapping
to "remove" and then manually analyse the
ones that don't fit).
WSJ, Organic Farms violations (Overview)
Dealing with EU Data Protection requests
(Open Corporates)

17. Contribute!
●Give us more feedback about structure
●Tell us if you want to contribute to the content (manage
your project page, your own tool page, share your
practices/recipes...)
●Get in touch if you have colleagues or partners that
could test this in beta in about a month or two.
influencemapping@iilab.org

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