2021-10-12 P&E Agenda - Item 10 - Attachment 1 - Social Return on Investment Evaluation

 Stakeholder list* – Digital Hub          Includes supporters and beneficiaries

      B.   Event/ program attendees – beneficiary stakeholders
      •    School age students – in person attendees
      •    Parents of school age students
      •    Primary and high school teachers, discipline coordinators
      •    Online attendees – specific events

      C.   Digital network
      •    ‘Members’ of the extended digital community who attend networking and professional development
           sessions at the digital hub (not necessary ‘members’ who work at the hub)

      D.   Funding agencies – financial contributor stakeholders
      •    Noosa Shire Council
      •    Queensland Government
      •    Commonwealth Government
      •    Sponsors, event financial supporters
      •    Angel investors

      E.   Specialist provider stakeholders
      •    Mentors
      •    Specialist and occasional providers – e.g., robotics engineers

*The stakeholder sectors are not mutually exclusive, as some individuals move across stakeholder types during their time at the
digital hub

A number of these stakeholders were directly involved in the calculation of this SROI. Stakeholders within the
A-C groups (above) completed surveys as part of this SROI evaluation.


5.0 Methodology – surveys
In addition to benchmarking and literature review, a stakeholder survey was designed for each of stakeholder
types A, B and C with consideration to the SROI methodology.

Other information was collected known to be important to Council, such as participant locality, and whether
survey respondents believed they could advance their skills and projects from the Noosa locality.

The surveys were structured to allow respondents to express values aligned with expected outcomes (e.g.,
improved support and ability to advance tech. products etc), but survey fields were also available to express no
value or benefit. This ensured the survey had no inherent bias to guide respondents to provide supportive
comments.

The survey also allowed respondents to skip questions to ensure they didn’t need to respond to a field of no
interest, in order to progress and complete the survey.




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