How Can We Integrate M&E Across Sectors?
I was very excited to attend the MERL Tech Conference. I’m from Egypt and currently work at UNICEF, and one of our biggest challenges with development programs...
We Need to Create Business Models that Deliver Value to Overcome the Digital Divide
Huawei recognizes the urgent need to reduce the deepening digital divide between those who benefit from connectivity and the internet, and those who don’t. Our...
Sensors for MERL: What Works? What Does Not? What Have We Learned?
Sensors promise rapid insights into development programs. Exciting and quickly evolving technologies are expanding the range of what can be measured, while the...
Learn How to Use Excel for Data Visualization in Just 2 Hours
We have all worked with Microsoft Excel, but few of us really know its power to meet a wide range of data analysis and visualization needs. Used correctly, we can...
What’s Your ICT4D Cyber Threat Model?
Threat models can make ICT4D more secure and safe to use. In computer science, “threat modeling” is the approach of playing through attacks and hacks ahead...
Check Out Inveneo’s New Solar Powered Digital Library Kit
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Dashboards: A Force for Good, Great, or Greater Confusion?
In this era of big data and real-time data sharing, projects and organizations are increasingly trying to organize their analytics with dashboards that share key...
3 Steps to Be a Data Minimalist: Collecting Less While Learning More
The “Data Minimalism – How to Collect Less and Learn More” session at the MERLtech conference taught us how to collect less data. More importantly, it taught...
Top 5 Considerations for Choosing a Mobile Data Collection Tool
With the recent announcement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals for the next fifteen years, it’s clear that there will be more intense scrutiny on organizations...
Why M&E Is LAME (Or Should Be…)
M&E is lame… As is MEL, MERL, MEAL, PME, and PM&E.
Why do we do M&E? To improve our work surely; but how do we improve? By learning what works,...
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