Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

Creating Adaptable and Accountable Development

Evaluating Communication for Development: supporting adaptive and accountable development is a 3-year project (Sept. 2014–17) that investigates how emergent, adaptive approach to evaluating C4D can be married with an increasingly dominant results-based management agenda.

Contributing partners Include RMIT University, UNICEF C4D, University of Hyderabad and the Eidos Institute.

The ECD team used MindHive to coordinate asynchronous discussion, online amongst their International Expert Advisory Group (IEAG).

This was aimed at developing a closed discussion amongst familiar contributors.

The month-long Challenge allowed for members of the IEAG to contribute when able from their base locations all around the globe.

ECD also posted a topic to the general MindHive community to gain some wider feedback on targeted questions.

“The extra advantage for us with using Mindhive was the increased sense of the IEAG discussions as an ‘event’ over the month it was open (compared to say, comments in a Google doc).

We also posted a Topic, and that was really positive – unlike most blog posts I’ve ever published, we got very quick, highly relevant and sophisticated comments back from the Mindhive community.”

Dr Jessica Noske-Turner
Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology