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 University described how new technologies and social media revolutionize information collection around the world. Whether you’re sending geolocated newsreports from conflict zones, to improving the collection of health indicators in Malawi or using your cellphone to submit your CV to find a job in Ramallah, mobile data technologies make it possible. Video footage of the IGNITE talks will be posted Mobile Active’s YouTube channel. For more information on the workshop, check out http://bit.ly/oss-mobdata.