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The structure of Plan means that money is sent from Plan’s 20 global organisations to the central HQ; not unsurprisingly, donors want to see outcomes from their giving and the SAP update should help the charity to provide that.Those giving are changing, too, with more corporates, trusts and governments chipping in. These are the kinds of operations that are subject to regulation and reporting and live and die by spreadsheets and data-based returns. Also, some will only release funds in tranches: for a charity to get follow-on funds, it must prove results from the earlier phases.“All of a sudden we are dealing with a $50m US grant through USID on food security and health in Uganda and the reality is we need different people to manage that grant and we want to look around the Plan world to find those people,” Banbury said.Sponsors want to know exactly what money Plan has spent, how many people were impacted and how their lives changed. “The idea is to make fundraising more efficient and report outcomes to donors. IT is more important in getting that data back to donors,” Banbury said.

Some will question Plan’s choice to spend millions of dollars on SAP – software common in the private sector. NFPSynergy, a consultant working with charities The Reg also spoke to, reckoned on a creaking IT structure inside most charities. Systems have grown up on an ad-hoc basic and IT has suffered as money has been allocated to charities' core work.Data management – especially databases – are charities' single biggest issue as that’s where so much of their intelligence resides.“Charities have started updating and have technology built into how they do business, but for the majority that’s not the case,” NFPS managing director Michele Maddens said.IT has to keep pace with charities' changing approach to fundraising. “There’s been a move towards giving and living,” Madden said.“They look at ways to make giving more attractive to people by combining it with something they like doing – do be with friends and give to charity, so you say: ‘Hey, we like running, let’s do a 10K together'.“Charities are always trying to be innovative in fundraising because they know if they can’t bring the money in, the work stops. Charities learn from each other just like in the commercial world,” Madden said.

Now Banbury has the basis for a centralised data infrastructure, he's looking for ways to make the most of Plan's core data.Plan is responding to more natural disasters and developing events, like Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines. Photo: Keira Dempsey He’s already working with Atos on building time and absence reporting software that would be used on mobile devices in the field. “Some large donors want to see time reporting," he said. "Right now, people are recording it on a laptop and emailing it but they might be in the field without a connection. We can get that data in realtime.“If we were a KPMG or PWC we’d have the management data on what all your consultants are doing.”Banbury has rolled out a BYOD policy to standardise on handsets. The phone of choice? No, not an Apple or Android: a Nokia feature that does texting and whose battery lasts longer than the standard 12 hours.He has had to make regional concessions: the base platform of choice is Nokia Windows Phone but there are regional variations: the BlackBerry is the device of choice in South Africa but in Asia it’s the latest Samsungs. The BYOD policy says you must have security safeguards enacted on the phone before connecting to Plan’s corporate emails and there must be a remote kill function that can be used centrally.

Banbury is also looking at more ways to use the data Plan has accumulated through its work. We're not talking big data or deploying SAP’s Hana, use of which Banbury reckons is two years off. Rather, analysis of large sets of data using Business Objects and Business Warehouse – hence the frustration over why the project was originally running late.Plan conducts an annual survey on the 1.5 million children it works with directly and the 10 million it reaches indirectly, a survey with 75 key data points. It’s a survey going back 10 years. “Nobody has data like us on that scale,” Banbury said. “It took a lot of work to build custom data cubes. We are hoping as this moves into SAP it becomes easier.”Charities are changing but Banbury reckons Plan now has the kind of infrastructure to allow his operation to remain in the top league of fundraisers, while being even more agile and flexible in the field. Opinion Is the Internet of Things a nightmare, a glorious utopia, or might it just never happen? Last week I was asked to offer a few thoughts in a panel discussion for over 200 PriceWaterhouseCoopers staff, ranging from hackers to business geeks.

I’ve only touched on IoT briefly, when David Cameron at CeBIT announced he was throwing a bit of money at it, and offering some new collaboration with Germany. If you recall, he gave a speech explaining that the Germans would do all the hard engineering bits, and we’d twiddle around with the websites. Thanks for the vote of confidence, Prime Minister.It’s a subject rife with BS, and this was a challenging audience that can smell bovine waste products a mile away. And as it turned out, they had been thinking about this stuff a lot. In fact, it was a run-up to the Institute of Ideas’ Battle of Ideas Festival at the Barbican this weekend.There’s an obvious problem before you can talk about the IoT. What exactly are you talking about? Define the terms. Everyone can agree on what the components are – sensors, embedded networking and so on – and roughly what they’ll be doing. The problem is: do you talk about real stuff that exists (such as M2M) and how this might develop, what uses it might have, or what could go wrong?

Or, do you treat the IoT as a great cosmic ontology, like a flying unicorn? Because that’s how most policy wonks treat it – a fantasy. We were invited to think about the end of the replacement of skilled jobs with machines, which I find a stretch.I suspect the ambiguity is the reason this topic has caught on as a talking point, and there are really two groups, each with their own fantasy they want to project upon it.One is a cybernetic fantasy where things providing real-time feedback, giving us stuff such as surge pricing. Uber, the casual-labour car hire company, is notorious for surge pricing, making rides more expensive when it rains. It even did it when Hurricane Sandy hit New York City. Customers hated it, and this summer Uber agreed to cap these prices.The idea behind surge pricing is that resources are more efficiently deployed if the pricing signal is bang up to the millisecond. It relies on a surge of drivers flooding onto the market as soon as the prices as go up. I’m not sure why this is completely necessary; you don’t need a computer to tell drivers they’ll get more work on a Saturday night than on a Monday evening. It removes the dependability (for the punter) of roughly knowing what your fare will be.The other group looking forward to an IoT is the collection of naggers and the scolds. In this fantasy, the fridge not only tells you how much butter you’ve got, but also tells you off for having too much. This may seem far-fetched, but it’s how Google quietly sells its vision to policy-makers: it’s for the greater good, for Public Health – a kind of "ambient paternalism".

So even if this vision comes about, and people use it and it and works perfectly (some huge ifs there) a lot depends on how it’s done. Few people would object to the police using data to deploy resources to crime hotspots, it’s what the police have always done. However, most would think a "Pre-crime Department" to be creepy and intrusive.As it turned out, quite a few people had thought the nagging fridge was a horrible prospect... and might kill it. Others thought nagging would save the concept.Jonathan Elliot from Tata Consulting described a world where we'd use vibrating forks, giving us real-time feedback on the meat it was prodding, and toothbrushes that gave real-time feedback on the state of our plaque. One member of the audience wondered if all this stuff hadn’t be dreamed up by engineers. Another PwC veteran said they'd constructed a "Smart Home" 15 years ago and nobody had used it. Another PwCer from the audience said the worry wasn’t so much surveillance itself, but data leakage: the prospect of your insurance company finding this stuff out in real-time what you’re eating.

This was a good point – does anyone think that insurance companies won’t ask for this data? Or that having asked, they won’t get it?PwC’s Paul Midian thought we might have to appeal to the Greater Good to sell the IoT into the home. Like “reminding people we’re running out of resources" will get them to accept embedded measurement and monitoring equipment, so they can monitor their own consumption of things. This got short shrift from moderator Claire Fox, who pointed out that 'resources are depleting' is a political judgement, and the politics of it were highly contentious. This is true – haven't we reached peak energy resource? Nobody talks about peak oil so much since the shale revolution.Questions of security and privacy hovered in and out of view. Consumer trends forecaster, the engaging William Higham, didn’t think surveillance dystopia would come about as he can’t get his printer to talk to his laptop most of the time. I said my printers were unreliable too, but we needed a better assurance that the technology would not work badly, than hoping that it wouldn’t work at all. This was rather like inviting people onto a new train with the comforting words: “It’s going to crash when it reaches cruising speed, that’s guaranteed, but don’t worry – it’ll break down long before it reaches cruising speed”.

Vanmoof is a utilitarian city bike designed for getting Dutch people from home to work and back again. I use a Ridgeback mountain bike to cycle into Vulture central and it’s not a particularly appropriate bike, so the contrast with my weekend loan of the Vanmoof electric is marked.You switch it on with a remote control and there's a 42v, 2.0A charging brick with a laptop style adapter that takes about three hours to charge. Surprisingly, there's no protection over the plug socket.The Vanmoof has a 250-watt motor in the front hub. It only works when you pedal and works harder the more you pedal. This is all about assistance, not letting the bike do all the work. There are two levels of help and that’s it for the power controls, found on a touch panel on the cross bar.


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