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1%Co-Creation Lab at 1%EVENT Amsterdam: the results!

Posted by  on 30 September 2010, 1:43 pm

1%EVENT Amsterdam reporter Tonee was feeling the intellectual capacity in the 1%Co-Creation Lab. So what exactly did this intellectual capacity do and came up with an the end of the day?

Co-Creation is an innovative method to come up with creative solutions in collaboration with other experts. Experts, you’ve never worked with before. Seven teams of experts worked on cases from several developing countries.  Experts from KPN, TNT, TamTam, Lots-OF, Syntens, Fitzroy, Accenture put it their talents to come up with the best possible solutions.  And that was not all; for the first time we had a global Co-Creation as we also had a team in Nairobi (Kenya) and Douala (Cameroon) working on cases.

See all the results:

Cycling out of Poverty
Cycling out or Poverty is a young innovative organization from the Netherlands that supports small entrepreneurs, students and health workers in Africa with bicycles. Many Africans lack money to buy a bicycle but do have a view on how a bicycle could be used to earn a livelihood, improve access to schools and health care.  Cycling out of poverty selects and coaches African partner organizations and provides them with seed money to start up bicycle projects.

The organization has made big steps the last year and discovered that their website was no longer meeting their requirements.

Result: ”a brand new website (check http://cycling.isklaarvoordetoekomst.nl/index.php)”

AGRO-HUB
AGRO-HUB is a business venture set up to mine, manage and disseminate agricultural information. To make this possible, AGRO-HUB exploits three fundamental information and communication technology components (Joint Community Effort, Short Message Service, and the Web) with a focus to achieve its main vision; make Cameroon’s agricultural markets work. Valery Colong, the case owner from Cameroon, wanted to know what was needed to attract investors and donors to take the AGRO-HUB to the next level.

Result: ”list of steps that can be taken to make the AGRO-HUB a success.”

1% EVENT Amsterdam 2010-1% Co-Creation Lab

Microjustice
The Microjustice Workplace is an online platform aimed at developing microjustice tools. The tools help paralegals and other facilitators to improve their workprocesses so they can better support the poor in solving their legal problems. The team of Microjustice asked the Co-Creation team at the NAILAB in Kenya to help them determine a strategy for attracting IT-developers to help them continuously improve the website and its functionalities and for bringing legal-aid experts online

Result: ”strategy to make the Microjustice Workplace a success, including dazzling action points”

1% EVENT Nairobi 2010-discussions

Afri-Can
Afri-Can, a Dutch foundation working in Kenya, started at an an engineering training and garage for street kids in Kisumu. The aim is generate revenues in order for the center to survive independently and function as a real garage. Promoting the center and bringing in potential customers is essential in this. They asked their Co-Creation team to help them develop a plan to market and promote the garage in Kenya.

Result: ”marketing plan, new name and brand new logo on top of it”

NAILAB
The NaiLab is the Nairobi Incubation Lab focused on Web, Mobile and Social Media for Development. The reasoning behind the NAILAB is simple. Too often, young African software web developers, designers, researchers and innovative thinkers labor in isolation and lack business skills, the infrastructure and the resources to upscale their innovative ideas. The NaiLab offers an incubation platform that helps these young entrepreneurs to concentrate on building a business structure around their innovations without the burden of high initial capital for  office space and service provision. Tonee and Samuel, managers of the Nailab, asked the Co-Creation team to Define a business strategy for the NaiLab to become self sustainable in three years and define a marketing strategy for the NaiLab to find international customers.

Result: ”well thought through business strategy and marketing plan.”

Caramundo
A Dutch Foundation working in Brazil, supports motivated youths (ages 12-30) in realizing their talents and acquiring the tools to attain economic self-sufficiency. In Pojeto Queto, a centre operated by local leaders, they provide a wide variety of workshops to motivated youths, i.e. graffiti, audio production, computer skills, silkscreen printing/sewing and sewing and fashion Design. Their goal: encourage the youth to stay away from drug traffic, prostitution and organized crime. With an own website, linked to the Caramundo site, where the youth can place their own news, can upload pictures, and maybe also sell their products, Caramundo can make the youth real owners of the project. Limbelabs in Cameroon put together a fantastic Co-Creation team to work on this case.

Result: ”a fantastic website (unfortunately not online yet)”

Niños de Guatemala
Niños de Guatemala was founded in 2006 in order to play a part in building a better future for Guatemala and its citizens. Niños de Guatemala (NDG) does this by setting up and supporting community-based projects; involvement from the local community is a crucial factor in this process. Niños de Guatemala wanted to know how they, as a small organization, attract an audience (potential donors) outside our current network of friends and family?

Result: ”innovative strategy to include (international) students in their network by giving “Pay it forward” workshops, promotion material.
Can’t wait till next year!! ”

Many thanks to Accenture and all participants: YOU made it work!

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#Twevaluation 2: How useful is Twitter?

Posted by  on 29 September 2010, 10:19 am

On their blog, Gisela Dütting and Bob van der Winden posted a new blogpost about evaluate an event using Twitter. Can Twitter be used as an evaluation tool at events?

At the 1%EVENT on 17 september 2010, the twitterati sent tweets like: “Great energy #1pce” and “Good buzz @ #1pce”, “Tiina Urm speaking #1pce, www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5GryIDl0qY”.

Overall, Twitter is used to inform the followers on what is going on. The tool is great for short announcements, and for referring to Youtube movies and websites. Quick, in 140 characters (less if you leave space for re-tweeters), a message with an impression. Furthermore, thanks to the hashtag #, anyone can quickly see all the tweets about a specific subject.

For monitoring purposes Twitter is a tool to assess the mood at an event. Are people mentioning what is happening? Which activities are they mentioning most? How are they mentioning the activity?

1%EVENT Amsterdam 2010 - Presentations

What can Twitter add as an evaluation tool?
Tweets need to be collected immediately after an event with the Twitter Search function and saved elsewhere; leave it for a few days and the majority of tweets has already disappeared. The tweets can then be counted, individual twitterati counted, mood assessed, and comments counted and analyzed. We noticed that only a few tweets had some form of content that was useful for evaluation purposes, beyond very general announcements. Out of the 900 tweets only 96 had some form of content/mood that was useful. Furthermore, all comments tend to be positive, in line with Twitter culture.

The questions that the twevaluators asked were seldom answered. Even personal replies with an additional question were not answered. Somehow, that does not go well with the medium. Consequently, the evaluation questions formulated for the day were not answered by Twitter.

What worked well was the screen in the conference main hall. Everyone could see the tweets, and the re-tweets by the tweetdeck. That added to the mood of “It is happening now!” and it added to the inclusion of all participants. During the day, we became aware that lots of participants never twittered, and did not have an account. One even twittered afterwards that he did not dare to use his old fashioned telephone in such a hip environment!

We may need more visuals for the ongoing outcome of the tweets real time, for example a time line with the best activities or a top 10 on the screens that evokes more evaluative tweets; this might encourage more participants’ involvement.

This first #Twevaluation experiment has generated new questions. We now know that twitter has possibilities: reading all tweets for energy, mood and positive feedback. Next time, the twevaluators would:


· Just use the general hashtag, the specific #twevaluation added nothing
· Not ask specific questions but just a few general ones, to be repeated during the day
· Add an “open computer” for participants who wish to Twitter but never did it before or did not bring their own computer/telephone
· Align the questions of other evaluation tools like the questionnaire with the Twitter questions (most inspiring, most useful, number of new contacts)
· Add a visual tool on the screen, to show aggregate data all day long (encouraging more participants to vote for the most useful part of the program, for example)
· Involve the bloggers more, to generate more tweets related to content
· Count the total outreach of all the twitterati by checking the number of followers
· Consider sending the twitterati or/and their followers a follow-up question, a few days after the event.

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The right person, at the right moment and right place

Posted by  on 28 September 2010, 9:57 am

You know that feeling, that a person walks in just at the right moment at the right place?

Because 1%CLUB likes to work with passionated people, in preparation for 1%EVENT Amsterdam we were looking for a producer who wanted to help us out to organize this event. Not only some one that knows all the ins and outs about organizing an event of this size but also someone who wanted to do this…as a 1% contribution.


”Leon van Wezenbeek, freelance producer events”, it says on his LinkedIn profile. Leon was that person at the right moment and right place.

Thanks to Leon 1%EVENT Amsterdam was such a big succes. Not only because of his great experience but also because of his quality to never to loose control and stay ‘cool’. So, many thanks to Leon: he made it work!

Check out Leon’s website: eventproducent.com

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Crowd-sourcing by ‘Twitterati’ at 1%EVENT

Posted by  on 24 September 2010, 2:49 pm

During 1%EVENT Amsterdam there was an experiment going on about ‘evaluation’ and ‘Twitter’: #twevaluation One of the initiators, Bob van der Winden, posted a blog on bwsupport.wordpress.com: Crowd-sourcing by ‘Twitterati’ at 1%EVENT

Margreet van der Pijl of the 1%CLUB wrote in her blog Quality improvement through Crowd involvement how the 1%CLUB is looking for new ways of evaluation. Gisela Dütting and I took up the challenge and decided to start with the 1%EVENT last friday, 17 September. We counted on the many ‘twitterati’ in the crowd and started formulating questions to be asked during the day.

Indeed among the 300 participants there were 110 individual twitterati who produced 900 tweets all together…

We asked general questions with the hashtag #1pce and #twevaluation: that did not work – no answers…

We also directed questions to people who had for instance indicated that they liked a specific presentation or open space workshop (e.g. ‘what did you like specifically’): all together during the day: 4 answers (as many as we got on one general question, more or less a ‘control’ question about the quality of the lunch…).

Our conclusions:

The 900 tweets could after the event be retrieved and analyzed – there were 96 tweets that contained enough content to make analysis possible. The fact that 900 tweets were produced on 1 event (which made the event the 5th largest event on Twitter in Holland that day) is in itself significant for instance.

But also the emphasis on the good feeling during the meeting and the enormous amount of positive energy during the day speaks to the imagination.

Tiina Urms presentation on cleaning up the WHOLE of Estonia in one day (onepercentblog.com/tag/tiina-urm/) was by far the most popular presentation for the twitterati.

But twitter as a tool? We really need to improve it for next time – if it is at all possible to use it for monitoring of an event…. (‘instant crowd sourcing’)?

Read the #twevaluation report 1%EVENT

Gisela Dütting and Bob van der Winden

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2,5 Years 1%CLUB, in 2,5 minutes.

Posted by  on 22 September 2010, 11:06 am

On the 1st of April, 2008 the 1%CLUB website officially was launched. Those two-and-a-half year sometimes felt like a rollercoaster…and the rollercoaster is still riding f-a-s-t.

Jump on, join us: YOU make it work.

Special thanks to Jaap van ‘t Kruis (ventanaz.com) for this video.

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