Technology Impact Some Inward and Outward Factors

1. Technology ImpactSome Inward and Outward Factors May 21, 2009 Edward Granger-Happ Unified CIO, Save the Children US & UK Chairman, NetHope Chairman, GTRB

2. Three Take-aways • IT Strategy at an NGO is about capacity building and moving the agenda up the strategy pyramid to mission-moving applications • NGOs cannot follow in the footsteps of corporations; we need to stand on their shoulders • The Cloud is out of reach most of the time for most of the world; Connectivity is foundational

3. Food distribution center in Bangladesh

4. In Bangladesh PDAs are delivering capacity gains 192,000 Beneficiaries. Source: Save the Children

5. Double the number of children we reach with quality programs. Increase Alliance collaboration to build our global movement for children

6. Technology is a Key to Building Capacity More Effective Impact At Greater Scale Effective, Efficient, Scalable Programs Hiring Training Partnering Processes Standards Advocacy Tools Systems Impact Funding Support

7. STC IT Strategy – Moving the Agenda Up the Pyramid Competitive or Leading CHILD “Differentiating” Child & Field Facing PROGRAM “Improving Program Delivery” Increasing Impact to Children OPERATIONAL “Helping the Organization Run” Efficient Donor & HQ Facing FOUNDATIONAL “Keeping the Lights On”

8. There’s fundamental gap in leveraging technology

9. There’s fundamental gap in leveraging technology A 5x gap!

10. We need to collaborate or perish “Who has expertise I can trust? Shared Specialization Joint Projects “What can we build together?” Increasing Levels of Trust Partnering “How can we work with corporations?” Basic Info Sharing “What are my peers doing?”

11. External Collaboration Will Drive the Internal Agenda NetHope as a collaboration that works • History: NetHope has been at it for 8 years: building trust since 2001 • Hunger: NGO IT are beggars – don’t underestimate value of under-funding • Humility: extending trust to centers of excellence in other members • Partnering: corporate partners buy-in to the leverage of collaboration and having impact with technology

12. Internet Village Motoman Network

13. There is an interesting relationship between connectivity and poverty Source: U.S. Census Bureau and Telegeography Global Bandwidth report

14. Three Take-aways • IT Strategy at an NGO is about capacity building and moving the agenda up the strategy pyramid to mission-moving applications • NGOs cannot follow in the footsteps of corporations; we need to stand on their shoulders • The Cloud is out of reach most of the time for most of the world; Connectivity is foundational

15. Questions?