2019
Novak Djokovic Foundation
Data Tools for Decisions That Affect Early Childhood Education
Our roleTechnology consulting, data science, data engineering, business intelligence
The Novak Djokovic Foundation is a global charity working on early-stage child education and development. LambdaWorks provided technology consulting and data science expertise to build a custom analytics platform - giving the foundation the infrastructure to make evidence-based decisions about resource allocation across education programs.
Making decisions without data
High stakes allocationPrograms that get funded grow. Programs that don't may not survive. The foundation was making these decisions without the analytical tools to support them properly.
No data infrastructureNo system existed to gather, process, and visualize data across programs in a way that supported objective comparison. Decisions relied on qualitative reporting.
What we built
Data gathering and processing - A platform ingesting program data from communities across geographies. Structured processing pipeline transforming inconsistent inputs into normalized, comparable records.
Visualization and decision support - Key metrics and trends visualized for leadership and program managers. Tools identifying critical factors affecting early childhood development outcomes. Resource management enabling project performance tracking at the community level.
Donor and public reporting - Objective, data-driven reports for foundation donors and public stakeholders. Structured presentation of program outcomes. Transparency tools reinforcing the foundation's credibility with the people who fund its work.
Technology for social impact
Applying the same quality of data infrastructure to a philanthropic context that a high-performing enterprise would use to run its operations requires the same engineering discipline - and the same commitment to getting the data model right before building the reporting layer.
LambdaWorks applied data engineering and analytics expertise to a social impact context, giving the Novak Djokovic Foundation the tools to act on evidence rather than assumption.