Browsing by Subject "Right Sharing of World Resources"

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    Law, Technology and Civic Entrepreneurship
    (2017-03-10) Hook, Sara Anne
    My research centers on the interrelationship between law and technology, both how the law is applied to new technology and the impact that technology has on the law and its practice. During the past year, I published and/or presented on such diverse topics as the extent to which copyright, patent, and trademark law protects websites, apps and GUIs, legal and ethical issues related to social media, and legal considerations for 3D printing. Through my national professional organization, I have advocated for modernization of the U.S. Copyright Office and for an alternative dispute process for small copyright infringement claims. The emerging area of law known as electronic discovery (e-discovery) has been a particular focus of mine for the last decade. E-discovery deals with how to handle digital evidence in all formats before and throughout litigation and sits perfectly at the intersection of law, technology and data science. My recent activities have included efforts to develop a robust and full-featured predictive coding system that will streamline the e-discovery process so that it is less time-consuming and costly and reduces the potential for errors. A passion of mine is microfinance/women’s empowerment, inspired by the work of Muhammad Yunus and my experiences teaching an entrepreneurship course here at SoIC every year since 2003. For six years, I was the leader of a successful microfinance/women’s empowerment project in Mexico and I am now completing a second year of being a project leader and “champion” for microfinance/women’s empowerment projects in Sierra Leone. As part of my efforts, I have been working with graduate students to redesign the website and social media/communications approach for the microfinance organization that oversees and administers these projects.
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    Microfinance/Women’s Empowerment in Sierra Leone: Civic Entrepreneurship, Advocacy and the Power of Partnerships
    (2017-04-11) Hook, Sara Anne; Tonsing, Betty
    This poster will highlight microfinance/women’s empowerment projects in Sierra Leone, administered by Right Sharing of World Resources (RSWR) and funded by the Rotary Club of Indianapolis. This example of civic entrepreneurship will demonstrate how providing women with the opportunity to start their own small companies contributes to building a support system and sense of community and addresses the need for social, economic and political stability in a country recovering from civil war and devastating disease. The poster will feature the results of efforts to redesign the RSWR website and develop a social media marketing strategy.
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    Rebuilding from the Ground Up: User-Centered Methodology for Web Design Moves Non-Profit Organization into the 21st Century
    (2016-04-08) Pachhapurkar, Shilpa; Hook, Sara Anne
    Microfinance projects are a proven approach for economic development, but an indicator of future success is that these projects involve a number of community partners, both in the U.S. and on the ground in the locale where the project will take place. As part of a series of microfinance projects in Sierra Leone, a pleasing partnership has developed between the Rotary Club of Indianapolis and Right Sharing of World Resources, which has personnel on the ground in Sierra Leone, one of three countries that it currently focuses on.1-3 Although established in 1967, Right Sharing remains a small organization as compared with other NGOs and has not had the time or expertise to update its website or to take advantage of the power of social media for outreach and public relations. The presenters agreed to develop recommendations for a total redesign of Right Sharing’s website and a social media marketing strategy. After a thorough analysis of Right Sharing’s website, we inspected some 70 NGO websites to identify current trends in layout, design and navigation flow, including the websites of large, well-established international organizations such as Care and smaller organizations with more targeted missions.4-7 Various screenshots of websites we considered to be impactful, that incorporated best practices and usability principles and that seemed to contain a “call to action” to potential donors, volunteers and supporters were grouped into a variety of collages for easy comparison. A preliminary new information architecture was developed to assist users in transitioning from one section of the website to another with more logical categories and a better organization of information under each category. One challenge is to integrate Right Sharing’s substantial material about past projects, including images and audio, while still presenting the freshest and most compelling content about current and future initiatives. 1. Rotary Club of Indianapolis, http://indyrotary.com/071013wp/, (last visited 3/14/2015). 2. Right Sharing of World Resources, http://www.rswr.org/, (last visited 3/14/2015). 3. Care, http://www.care.org/, (last visited 3/14/2015). 4. Alliance for African Assistance, http://www.alliance-for-africa.org/, (last visited 3/14/2015). 5. Manna Foodbank, http://www.mannafoodbank.org/, (last visited 3/14/2015). 6. Ambassadors for Life, http://www.ambassadorsforlife.org/, (last visited 3/14/2015). 7. Not for Sale, https://www.notforsalecampaign.org/, (last visited 3/14/2015).