Visit our first region with documented issues: Arusha Region, Tanzania
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What if… there is a platform showing all key development issues for Arusha region, and which stakeholders are working on them?
What if… this platform does not only exist for Arusha, but for other regions around the world as well?
Open Chain is this platform. It’s an open source software enabling stakeholders to document key issues they have researched and/or are working on. This shared knowledge database enables:
Collaboration: finding new partners.
Orientation: identify new areas for intervention.
Visibility: share your work.
Monitoring: find research and progress reports in one place.
The Open Chain platform is managed by local ambassador organizations. These ambassadors organize network events where stakeholders share information, document them on the platform and discuss actions. And they take part in user research to develop the platform further.
The open source platform features at least:
Pages for regions containing:
General description and a logbook of key issues
Monitoring reports and research methodologies of key issues of different stakeholders
Pages for stakeholders containing:
Their monitoring reports and research methodologies
The key issues they have logged
Depending on functionalities to be prioritized the following features are examples of additions:
Collaboration: search and contact function for stakeholders, alerts for new stakeholders and reports, messaging system to call for partnerships.
Orientation: country and region summaries, ranking of issues on importance vs existing stakeholders working on it.
Visibility: extra design options for stakeholder pages, showcase areas per region, extra attention for local stakeholders.
Research: search function between and within monitoring reports, downloadable logbooks of issues.