Research and Foundation for our Framework

The process of putting together a collaboration framework for social entrepreneurs involved many steps, research, consultations and of course our own field experience working for Human Development and in the Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship at Stanford.

Here's a short summary of the research, findings and responses.

1. map of actors.

We made a list of people, institutions, organizations and roles (major focus in roles), identifying:

• Those involved in the issues and processes of interest to fellownies.org.
• those who benefit from from human development projects.
• those who work on human development projects.
• Those we target directly with fellownies.org.
• Those we'd like to reach with fellownies.org
• Those who the above actors need to reach.

1a. identifying stakeholders 

If you don't see yourself in the list above or think we may have left out a relevant group of people, organizations, etc., please add a comment at the end of this article so we can enhance the foundation to include everyone.

1b. defining our target audiences

1c. identifying and defining our areas of interest

This areas of interest are referred to as "development issues" and have been extended, organized, arranged and regrouped under the main three initiatives of the Reuters Digital Vision Fellowship: Advancing Financial Services, Networked Health and Welfare and Knowledge and Empowerment.

A complete and current list is available at sitemap directory.

 1c. defining our areas of impact

A complete and current list is available at sitemap directory.

2. identifying the needs.

3. tools/services to enable.

4. for which services are users willing to pay?

5. to what services users would prefer to have quick access?

Things to consider putting on front page, tool bars, side bars or quick access menus. 

6. things user would appreciate the most to be able to do