An intro slide about Beehive, an open source initiative launched by former United Nations staff to improve humanitarian crowdfunding technology.

1. Beehive.ngo

3. Beehive is a nonprofit open source initiative
linking humanitarian organizations, tech
volunteers and supporters

4. Beehive members are working together to
advance open data sharing between
humanitarian organizations and donors

5. and to solve how data channeled through
technical frameworks like IATI can power next-
generation crowdfunding platforms

6. and emerging artificial intelligent applications,
including popular digital assistants like Siri, Alexa
and Facebook M

7. What’s IATI?

9. IATI is an open data sharing framework that the
humanitarian community has been developing,
broadly putting in place and mandating outside of
view of the private sector

10. Professional humanitarian organizations use IATI
to report aid activities, who they’re helping and
where for example and to make the detailed
information accessible to machine applications

11. Donors and institutions use IATI to report grant
transactions, follow aid activities, spending and
results and to help plan and coordinate future
programs and support

12. Government development agencies are
mandating IATI to improve transparency and data
comparability and to advance open data sharing
across the humanitarian community

13. How does IATI work?

15. Organizations use standardized information
fields to report activities then they convert the
information into machine readable XML code

16. Organizations publish the XML files on their own
servers then send file metadata to IATI, making it
possible for anyone to aggregate, compare and
analyze the data

17. IATI makes it possible to see what different
organizations are doing and to track activities in
real time through planning, implementation and
completion stages

18. Cross-connected activity data streaming through
IATI can be traversed by artificial intelligent
applications to answer queries about operations
and where needs are most acute in the field

19. Why Beehive was launched?

21. IATI was originally setup to make aid funding
more transparent not to unlock innovative
potential by setting up a way to power futuristic
applications such as ones that are commonplace
today or on the horizon tomorrow

22. On a technical level, because of its original
design the framework is missing a robust entry
point suitable for applications to plug into

23. Beehive was launched to build a modern IATI
data server and API capable of powering
sophisticated enterprise-grade applications

24. and to solve and model how applications can
connect and communicate with the server and
function to ultimately help organizations get their
needs in front of the crowd and turn around
funding for operations

25. Beehive is dedicated to working out the technical
challenges preventing developers from building
intelligent IATI-data-driven applications improving
humanitarian financing and operational
coordination

27. Beehive.ngo