The Indaba 2012 Roadmap

In 2011, we validated our hypothesis about what Indaba can offer to a distributed team creating a scorecard, index, or similar data collection project. Our job for 2012 is scale. Big scale. We want more users, more speed, and more great projects coming out. To do this, we need to make setting up projects faster [...]

The Indaba Fieldwork Platform in 2011: What we learned on our way to 3,000 completed assignments

During the past year, Indaba has moved from a good idea to a field-tested tool with strong user validation.

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Indaba includes a monitoring software that keeps on eye on system health and alerts humans in case of problems like the site being unavailable, broken, or slow to respond. The monitor is one of the last things we installed, and we’re starting to get first months of complete reports now. As transparency people, we’re happy [...]

Indaba in 2011

In the last year, we’ve gone from an handful of sketches to a suite of tools in use in 34 countries. With gratitude to those who made this possible, here are our plans for the next spin around the sun. [image: joiseyshowaa]

Status Report: October Update

After a few late nights, Indaba has launched with the Designer and Builder apps currently in use in 34 countries.

Liftoff!

Early this month, the Indaba team emailed passwords to a few dozen researchers and reporters, marking the kickoff of the Indaba platform. It is now managing fieldwork for the Global Integrity Report: 2010, with teams in 34 countries using the Indaba platform’s Builder software to share reporting and data with their managers, editors and peer reviewers. So far, things look pretty good.

Status Report: September Update

Indaba is still in development, but we’re inching towards a finish line for our initial buildout.

First Look at Indaba Stylesheets

Here’s a look at the design progression of the Indaba Builder start page from a 2009 wireframe to our latest build of style.css.

Adventures in field testing, in which we almost melt a mobile phone.

It’s your July 2010 status report: I have good news on funding, and the Indaba fieldwork platform gets it’s first real-world testing.

Status Report: June 2010

It’s aliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive. [lightning] [thunder] More specifically, the Indaba demo site is now linked up with the data model and moving assignments through workflows.