December 2009
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Data Mules and Delayed Data Processing
During Innovations in Mobile Data Collection, we talked quite a bit about delayed data processing when infrastructure (mobile or internet) is not readily available. Nadav Aharony from MIT says:
“Non-synchronous data communications is used when an active data connection or cell phone coverage are not available. Data could opportunistically make its way from the origin to the destination via...
IGNITE Talks Showcase a Wide Range of Mobile Data...
In a dense session of twenty IGNITE talks – five minutes on a subject accompanied by 20 self-advancing slides – a wide range of cutting edge applications of mobile data technologies were presented. Organizations including inter alia UNICEF, Ushahidi, Souktel, Al Jazeera, 7iber.com, Development Seed, Sharek961 as well as researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and New York...
Innovators Look to Mobile Data Collection to...
Participants are arriving from all over to spend the next three days talking about innovations in using mobiles for data collection for social action. Members of the UNICEF Iraq and Innovation teams (who’ve sponsored the gathering) are working with representatives of the agency’s five Iraqi ministerial government counterparts to explore how mobile data collection can help better...
Participate remotely!
How can you participate?
Follow along on the aggregator at http://www.netvibes.com/smextoday#MOBDATA with the event wiki, blogs, videos, etc to follow and remotely participate through social media. We will be posting there regularly and you can comment there as well as here and follow along in the proceedings.
You can also participate remotely on Tuesday, December 8th, at 12 noon Jordanian time...
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Social Media Aggregator
Our most-excellent colleagues at the Social Media Exchange Beirut have set up a Netvibes aggregator for social media ad useful info for the workshop. You can find it here.
Follow along and participate - hashtag for all social media is #mobdata. See you in Amman!
The wiki...Mobile Data for Social Action!
The wiki for the workshop in Innovations in Mobile Data Collection for Social Action is here. You can see the daily agenda there, follow along in the proceedings as we document sessions with photos, video, interviews, and reports; and find answers to any logistical questions. The wiki is for all participants to use and make it their own as we convene in Amman on Tuesday.
Who is coming?
We will have some amazing people, organizations, and technologies in the house in Amman. First, we welcome UNICEF Iraq with a high-level delegation of representatives. We are thrilled to have you in Amman!
Here are some of the projects sending representative:
Souktel, an incredibly exciting SMS platform in MENA that links young people with jobs, aid-seekers with aid organizations, and provides...
Mobile Data for Social Action Workshop - Who and...
This is the blog for Innovations in Mobile Data Collection for Social Action, a workshop in Amman, Jordan, December 8-10, 2009.
Co-hosted by UNICEF’s country office in Iraq, UNICEF Innovation, and MobileActive.org, this three-day gathering is bringing invited experts from around the world together to explore some of the key issues related to using mobiles for data collection and analysis of...
“Many organizations are battling to gather data from constituencies and areas...”
