What is the roadmap?

Based on learning from 20 digital communities across the world, we created a roadmap, consisting of 12 steps, or building blocks, that are needed to create a digital community for social change.

The roadmap provides a framework to capture, organise, create and transfer our knowledge related to building digital communities for social change. For each building block of the roadmap, a module has been developed, that gathers the relevant resources and tools of RNW Media as well as external sources.

The roadmap includes a tool, a decision tree, which can help organisations to:

• Determine whether building a digital community is the right method to achieve their desired goal
• Assess if organisations have the right required resources to build a digital community (budget, partnerships, human resources)
• Provide insights on why previous experiences related to setting up digital communities (might not) have led to the expected results