Please visit GiveWell.org This CharityScorecard.org site was in use from 2006 to 2008, but is now mostly dormant, and the material here is out of date. The GiveWell project has similar goals and is being actively maintained. I've left the old CharityScorecard.org content here just for the historical record.

From CharityScorecard

Contents 1 Openness and Transparency 2 Data Visualization 3 Collective Intelligence and Knowledge Aggregation 4 Triage and Cost-Benefit Philanthropy 5 Structured Content and Web-Based Collaboration

Openness and Transparency

• The Transparent Society by David Brin
• The Creative Commons — open content and open publication
• The "Open Process" culture developing on some wikis and open source projects
  • The Zope Fishbowl Process
  • The Meatball wiki page on Open Process

Data Visualization

• Hans Rosling's 2006 TED talk
• Edward Tufte's The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Collective Intelligence and Knowledge Aggregation

• The Wisdom of Crowds
  • The Wikipedia article about the Wisdom of Crowds
  • The book itself: The Wisdom of Crowds by James Surowiecki
  • An mp3 recording of James Surowiecki's talk at the 2006 SWSX conference
• The Wikipedia — simple tools, open content, open collaboration
  • (also of interest: Jon Udell's 8-minute "screencast" about the a single Wikipedia page)
• The Iowa Electronic Market — predictive markets
• The GlobalGiving 2005 Marketplace — web-based collaborative philanthropy

Triage and Cost-Benefit Philanthropy

• The Copenhagen Consensus and the book Global Crises, Global Solutions
• The World Bank's cost-benefit analysis of work on their projects — PENDING: find web page
• The United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDG)

Structured Content and Web-Based Collaboration

• Chandler — item-level addressing, item sharing, item categorization
• Lotus Improv — structured spreadsheets, pivot tables
• The del.icio.us site — collaborative categorization