The Challenges of Working with Crowd-Sourced Data
Description
This interdisciplinary discussion will enable scientists, development practitioners and all those with an interest in crowdsourced data to discuss the challenges of collecting, analysing and sharing development and scientific data via citizen science projects, particularly involving mobile phone data collection. Details of the session are still being finalised, but the format will be innovative and interactive - stay tuned to find out more!
Session Host
Laura Newman, OKFN, UK, @Newmanlk, laura.newman@okfn.org
Contributors
TBC. Potential participants include:
– Philip Thigo (Huduma)
– David Aanensen (EpiCollect)
– Anahi Ayala Iacucci
– Soren Gigler (World Bank)
– Victor Miclovich (Ushahidi)
– Possibly someone from Esri
Session coordinated by Sarah Johns, Plan International, and Laura Newman, OKFN.
Bios
More bios coming soon…
Victor Miclovich
Victor Miclovich is a software developer, and serial entrepreneur. He has consulted with organizations like the UNICEF as a T4D programmer building on top of the RapidSMS platform and SwiftRiver/Ushahidi.
He is also one of the co-founders of The Kuyu Project (currently rebranded as Jamlab), StorySpaces, mSpoti, Semaje and pThor.
pThor is a medical application startup. Semaje is a language learning application that uses cognitive techniques to support learning a new language. StorySpaces is digital story telling social network that started up in 2010 in East Africa.
Victor loves to mentor young software developers and has recently started a “Girl Geek series” to promote more girls in technology. Another initiative of his stems from his interest in data science through Kirril, a data journalism toolkit, an open source project that he started this year.
Details
Location: INSPIRE meeting room
Date & Time: Thur 20, 11:30-13:00
Target Group: Anyone interested in the topic; scientists, researchers, development organisations, people collecting crowd-sourced data.
Topic Stream: Open Development
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