Planting the seeds for a post-ICT4D world.
Hope for a post-ICT4D world
We should hope for a post-ICT4D world that promotes an ecosystem of technology providers instead of hindering them.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming—are you ready?
Going into effect on May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) intends to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU). Implications for the international development and research communities could be profound. Learn more in this overview post.
We’re heading to GPSDD’s Data for Development Festival in Bristol, UK
Dobility is excited to be attending the upcoming "Data for Development Festival" event in In Bristol UK, March 21-23, 2018. This event for the partners and friends of the Global…
BINGO! Quality Data Collection Isn’t a Game, but Oxfam Canada Won with SurveyCTO
MERL TECH UK 2018 LUNCH SESSION Dobility is excited to be speaking at the upcoming MERL Tech UK event in London, March 19th and 20th. Our lunchtime session will review…
Will we see you at the Digital Development Conference in Washington DC?
Dobility is excited to be attending the upcoming "USAID Digital Development Forum: The Next 10 Years" event in Washington D.C on March 9th. The conference will explore how to effectively catalyze…
We’re heading to New Delhi for EvalFest 2018!
Dobility India will be in New Delhi, India February 7-9, to participate in EvalFest 2018, hosted by the Evaluation Community of India (ECOI)!
We’re in Vancouver for the NetHope Global Summit!
SurveyCTO is excited to participate in the NetHope Global Summit this week in Vancouver, Canada!
Beyond just talking about human-centered design
People have been talking about human-centered design for years, and there is always much enthusiasm for how the core principles might apply in the development context. In this blog post, I try to bring things down to earth, discussing ways that project and in-country teams might use SurveyCTO to put good design principles into practice.
The structure of the tech-for-dev marketplace
Thoughts on the structure of the technology-for-development marketplace, donor incentives, and the role for private-sector technology providers...
Planning for electronic data collection
You need to collect some data. You’re familiar with pen-and-paper data collection, but you’ve decided to make the leap and enjoy the benefits of electronic data collection. Now you have a lot of questions...
On SurveyCTO: An open letter
It started as a modest experiment in electronic data collection embedded within a much more ambitious experiment involving microfinance in rural India. Today, SurveyCTO has grown into a mature technology platform used to collect data in hundreds of projects around the world. This inaugural blog post seems like a good time to look briefly back, and then forward to where SurveyCTO is headed...