Posts about Charity

Website usability MOT competition results are announced

The entries for the competition that Cogapp launched in support of World Usability Day on 12th November have now been judged and we're delighted to announce that the winning charity is Norwood. a charity that supports people with learning disabilities and children and families in need.

Intern starts at Cogapp as part of Wired Sussex program

Oliver Wilshen

As part of the Wired Sussex Internship Program, there is a new face in the Cogapp office for six weeks. Oliver Wilshen is our new Production Intern, working on a variety of projects from long overdue modifications to our internal calendar to Codeo, our student coding competition.

Kidney Patient Guide wins Freshest Not for Profit Award

The KPG

The Kidney Patient Guide (KPG) – the online discussion forum and information hub for sufferers of kidney disease, their families and support networks - has won the prestigious Freshest Digital Not for Profit Gold Award at the Fresh Digital Awards.

Enhanced Letsema website unveiled by Cogapp

Letsema map interface

Letsema, a network of service providers committed to working with orphans and vulnerable children in Lesotho, Africa, now has a newly improved website developed by Cogapp.

Cogapp launches redesign of online community Kidney Patient Guide

Cogapp is proud to unveil a new look and navigation system for the Kidney Patient Guide - a site which provides support, advice and an online discussion forum for sufferers of, and those affected by, kidney diseases. Established in 1999, and originally funded by a grant from the Wellcome Trust, the KPG has been maintained pro bono by Cogapp since it was launched.

Ten Thousand Cents

24/04/2009
posted by Eleanor Rudge

Ten Thousand Cents is a project where a digital representation of a $100 bill was created by thousands of different people from all over the world. This project caught  our attention because it was made using Amazon's Mechanical Turk - a tool for sourcing people to perform Human Intelligence Tasks - or tasks that computers are unable to perform.

Individuals were asked to reproduce  a 10,000th of a $100 bill using a custom drawing tool, but were not told anything about the project.

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Contextual research brings user-centred design to Arthritis Research Campaign

Arthritis Research Campaign

We've just completed a two-part user experience project for arc (Arthritis Research Campaign), a major funder of research into arthritis and related musculoskeletal diseases.

Digital Communications for Charities Conference 2009

02/03/2009
posted by Pete Gale

Rachael Rainbow and I had a fascinating day out at the Digital Communications for Charities conference back in January, where I gave a talk on ‘Effective fundraising through better user experience’. The focus of the conference was online fundraising for charities and it was really refreshing for us to get the client-side perspective on this.

There were some excellent talks throughout the conference.

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Letsema Mapping Interface

02/09/2008
posted by Martin Edwards

Following the launch of the new Letsema Mapping Interface, I thought I'd write a little about how it works and how Letsema are hoping it will benefit them.

"The Letsema initiative is committed to fostering co-operation, collaboration and communication between all funders and aid providers in Lesotho"

Using a combination of geographic coordinates, overlay images and a filtering system we have taken advantage of the Google Maps API to create a map pinpointing the location of organisations and amenities in Lesotho.

Here's an image of the map with everything (so

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Mapping Lesotho

The Lesotho Atlas, a rich interactive map for the Letsema Initiative, has now gone live.

Following the delivery of a website for Sentebale: the Princes’ Fund for Lesotho, completed in July 2007, Cogapp was commissioned to develop a map for the Fund’s Letsema Initiative.