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With the explosive growth of mobile devices around the world and increasing support for the mHealth sector, data collection projects and tools are at an exciting stage in their lifecycle. The next few years will witness efforts at scaling up of pilot projects while at the same time rapid growth of technology will bring new opportunities and pressures. Please join a panel of experts for a moderated discussion on the trends and challenges in mHealth data collection.

Trends and Challenges in mHealth Data Collection

When: Tuesday May 10, 2011 at 5:00 pm
Where: United Nations Foundation, 1615 M Street NW, Suite 700, Washington, DC 20036
Agenda: 5:00 – 6:30 pm: Panel Discussion, 6:30 – 7:00 pm: Networking Reception

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Panelists

· Chloe Feinberg (Ashoka) joined Ashoka in 2008 and is part of the Full Economic Citizenship (FEC) team working on the Healthcare for All program. As a Health and Start-up specialist, Chloe has evaluated low-cost diagnostic tools for use in resource poor areas. She has been trained on the healthpoint model, which is providing technology-enabled primary care and clean water in rural India. Going forward, Chloe will be launching the healthpoint model in other geographies, as Ashoka moves into the rapid-piloting phase of the program.

· Jody Ranck, DrPH (UN Foundation) is the Director of Thought Leadership, Policy and Advocacy at the mHealth Alliance and has over 20 years of experience in the field of global health. For the past decade he has been deeply involved with a large number of health technology issues ranging from health forecasting as the Director of the health practice at the Institute for the Future to work with social media and public health to playing a role as a convener at the 2008 Bellagio Summit, Making the eHealth Connection, that the Rockefeller Foundation sponsored and resulted in the creation of the mHealth Alliance.

· Joel Selanikio (DataDyne) is a practicing pediatrician, former Wall Street computer consultant, and former CDC epidemiologist with a passion for combining technology and public health to address inequities in developing countries, Dr. Selanikio leads DataDyne.org's pioneering efforts to develop and promote new technologies for health and international development, including the award-winning EpiSurveyor mobile data collection project. He is a sought-after speaker, a member of the Clinton Global Initiative, and a participant in the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland and the annual Renaissance Weekend retreat.

· Moderator: Usha Venkatachallam (Appropriate IT) is a technologist who believes that appropriate information & communication technologies (ICTs) have transformational power, making them effectives tool for social change. She is the founder of Appropriate IT, a technology development company that specializes in web and mobile application development. At Appropriate IT, she leads efforts to create sustainable technology solutions and build the information and communication technology (ICT) capacity of communities in the Global South.

Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) meetup is a learning network of and for practitioners to share knowledge, information, experiences, and projects in this field. This ICT4D Meetup is co-hosted by UN Foundation and Appropriate IT

Don't forget - today we're having the January ICT4D Twitter Chat - Working with Local Governments

Local governments - from regional to village level - can be both a help and a hindrance to information and communication technology deployments in the developing world. Yet projects usually cannot succeed without their buy-in.

In the January Twitter Chat, we'll explore four vital questions any ICT practitioner faces when designing and deploying technology-based projects at the local level:

1. Do you work with local governments or bypass them?
2. What are the keys to project success with local government?
3. How can you work with compromised governments, like Haiti?
4. Where are examples of positive local government buy-in?

We'll start at 12-noon Eastern Time ( noon worldwide ) with introductions, then move into the discussion, using the #ICT4D hashtag in Twitter.

Be sure to follow ICT_works, Michael Downey, and Chloe Feinberg to keep up with all the Twitter Chat action, and for those not on Twitter, you can watch the action via the handy embed below or this separate webpage:

Our hope is to learn from each other to change the failure factors that we can individually control, and recognize the ones we need collective action to remedy.