Data can play an important role for social sector organisations by helping them track progress, measure impact, and identify areas for improvement. It can also help social sector organisations communicate their work to funders, partners, and the general public. From a social sector organization’s perspective, data is crucial, and at…

Leveraging the power of chatbots to engage with your NGO’s beneficiaries.

Before coming to the actual problem let’s start with a very basic question in web development. How do you update a specific section of a webpage without reloading the whole page? Yes, you guessed it right, by making an Ajax request to the server. In most of the projects at…

We recently got a problem statement from one of our clients. They have an education platform for which they are using Zoom to provide online tutoring and are availing the Zoom recording to students once the session is over. They started with few institutes, but as the business grew up,…

Glific aims to empower non-profits to take their communications to the next level through seamless integration with WhatsApp. While the larger goal is to help various organizations solve severe social problems like illiteracy, climate changes, gender oppression, etc, we also need to make sure that the tool is getting utilized…

Something caught my eyes when I opened up my GitHub account a few days back. In the spotlight, GitHub was flaunting the launch of version 1.0 of their CLI. As a command-line fanatic, I knew I have to check this thing. And that’s exactly what I did, I installed it…

The Glific project is being built by a distributed team, working across timezones. In addition to that, we have sub-teams for frontend and backend applications. This results in short release cycles, where we fix issues and release them quickly. To allow for quick integration and assessment of the work, the…

Glific v0.1 arrives Communicating with the beneficiaries is as important a part of an NGO’s work as running their impact programmes itself. For some, it may even be the main mode of improving human lives for domains such as education, healthcare or livelihoods counselling etc…  These needs led to many…

While we’re building Glific, we are staying open to feedback from the stakeholders. We’re open for the possibility to iterate it and get things right. We’ve been showing our product concept and the progress to NGOs and taking their inputs to build it further. Especially during the early stages of…

The strength of a building is heavily influenced by its construction process. Planning and plotting of the site determine its fitment with the terrain and the society. Well, it’s the same for software too. Like buildings, the foundation of software determines its longevity and adaptability in the world. To sustain,…

It’s been almost a month I’m working on the open-source project with Tech4Dev. Prior to this, I had been a part of many enterprise applications in several domains including the social sector. With a deep desire to explore more areas, I found one of the interesting aspects of this project…

“TO ERR IS HUMAN” – It is natural for human beings to make mistakes.   Though it sounds ideal, you cannot (or must not) accommodate mistakes when people’s lives may depend on your software. Especially where users are interacting with your app in real-time and your code impacts their lives,…