NGOs aren’t known for being the most efficient organizations. The amount of bureaucratic navel gazing, however important, it takes to get decisions made and money flowing usually subverts any possibility for agile response times.
In spheres like Palestine, where international aid money can make a real difference in people’s lives, what might seem like minor inefficiencies can really add up. Upon moving back to Palestine after many years in Canada, businessman Feras Nasr noticed the problem anew. After many discussions with acquaintance and IT professional Ibrahim Abu Kteish, together they decided to launch AidBits, a cloud-based platform aimed at digitizing – and thus streamlining – reports and data collection for non-governmental organizations.
“The less efficiency, the less effectiveness,” Nasr says from the Arabreneur co-working space on a cloudy Ramallah day last month. AidBits’s purpose derives from the impossibility of taking the long view of a humanitarian crisis when one has to work with, and synthesize, myriad badly organized data channels. ‘Simplifying Aid Management’ is the publicity slogan they’ve settled on, and based on Nasr’s statements, it indeed seems to aptly reflect what the company does.
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Palestinian startup AidBits aims to streamline the aid sector
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