Methods & Case Studies
Strategy Development
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Digital Ethnography
Digital Ethnography is the process of using digital technologies to learn about the shared ambitions, behavior, culture, and experiences of communities across different issues...
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Futures Studies
Futures Studies is the process of examining how systems could evolve over time in order to anticipate and prepare for multiple future outcomes...
Evaluating the methods’ maturity level
While many of the methods included on the platform are new to the philanthropic sector, these methods have been tried and tested in several other domains.
The Gartner Hype Cycle is a framework that can be used to assess the maturity level of digital innovations and whether they will be sustained overtime. The following figure summarizes our distillation of where the methods included in DATA4Philanthropy are situated within the Hype Cycle. This positioning was based on our own sense-making of the method performs in terms of the following questions: