The Impact Data
Consortium Chain
A socially-conscious and civic-minded community that brings together people and resources with data, takes action to solve Hong Kong's most pressing issues, and advocates for a new paradigm of bottom-up crowd-solutions for poverty alleviation and social inclusion.
Data Sharing
Crowdsourcing information and knowledge of impact provides insights, reduces costs, and promotes innovation.
Data Integrity
Ensuring veracity, accuracy, and trackability of data strengthens trust between funders and beneficiaries.
Data Ethics
Protecting digital rights, information privacy, and data self-sovereignty supports compliance and helps us go a long way.
An Impact Data Commons
Engage Community with Data
Knowing the social well-being of our city helps us connect to each other and drive collective action.
Drive Social Innovation
Identifying gaps in Hong Kong's social needs helps to better inform social innovation, program operations, and policy advocacy for greater impact.
Unlock Social Capital
Providing data-driven pathways and bridges for resources to connect with need and innovation to build real community value.
Letter from the Executive Director
The Hong Kong social service sector is a vibrant and growing community consisting of social purpose organizations (SPOs) that are working on the frontlines of Hong Kong's marginalized communities, impact intermediaries that are helping SPOs to run smoothly, and philanthropists and impact investors that provide much needed financial support to power these projects.
Much like how our immune system needs to immediately identify pain before it can heal itself, so too does our society need timely and accurate information to identify pain points in order for us to work together to solve our own peoples problems.
IDCC is the place for us to come together to make this happen — through community-driven data!
James Leung
Chair & Executive Director, IDCC HK
It All Began One Day...
The movement to create a place to share how social services make impact was first set into motion over a half-decade ago through countless conversations between Hong Kong's social impact ecosystem leaders, academics, impact investors, and grassroots communities.
The swirl of these energies began to take focus and shape within the last two years, with the leadership of the fellows of Shanzhai City, CUHK ACF and HK-SIA guiding a collaboration to become a registered Hong Kong non profit organization limited by guarantee in 2020, as a city-wide open-source technology initiative called the Impact Data Consortium Chain.
IDCC's consortium members collectively acknowledge the need for establishing a city-wide data platform as the organization's first step, that allows them to more conveniently manage impact data for the sake of transparency, accountability, and making information become actionable, informing better policies, and creating more value for an ecosystem that often is lacking in crucially needed resources.