Research Articles
Atlas.Ti: Four Star Research Software
Do you work with interviews or documents in which you have to make meaningful correlations between themes?
ICT4D Africa Scan: An Inventory of ICT Activity in Africa
seeks to provide a reference of the major ICT development activities in Africa.
Ranking Charities = Bad Science
There is an interesting discussion going on (for some time now) over at the Stanford Social Innovation Review forum about charitable donations and the new ranking systems ...
A New Online Journal
A new journal devoted to researching the (primarily sociological) aspects of Technology's influence
Researching Flies, and Colorblindness 101
Drosphilia researchers have a leg up on web designers.
Online Resources for Evaluation Nonprofit Programs
This is a super-unfortunate development; Google is the web's best hope for easy, inexpensive archiving of scholarly research.
Kestrel: A Simple Web App for Community Supported Agriculture
The basic idea a simple and user-centered web app that helps facilitate ordering, billing and member management for CSA's. Things are JUST getting started and I am soliciting help in doing some feasibility research as well as a basic evaluation of existing CSA management applications.
Populi.net: a mobile phone-based research platform
Low cost Nokia 2626 handsets were successfully used by field workers to conduct surveys. Several field workers had never even sent an SMS before.