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Break Out Session
All
Building bridges
Exploring the Future of MERL
Facing our challenges and shortcomings
Sharing experiences
Strengthening the evidence base on MERL Tech and/or ICT4D approaches
Strengthening the evidence base on MERL Tech and ICT4D approaches
community and capacity
connections
Community Building
All
Building bridges
Strengthening the evidence base on MERL Tech and/or ICT4D approaches
community and capacity
connections
Fail Fest
All
Facing our challenges and shortcomings
Hard Talk
All
Facing our challenges and shortcomings
Lightning Talk
All
Building bridges
Exploring the Future of MERL
Facing our challenges and shortcomings
Sharing experiences
Strengthening the evidence base on MERL Tech and ICT4D approaches
and good practice
challenges
community and capacity
connections
examples
Plenary
All
Exploring the Future of MERL
Pre-Workshop
All
Exploring the Future of MERL
LEVEL
Advanced MERL
Advanced Tech
Any level MERL
Any level of MERL or Tech
Any level Tech
Approaches
Beginner MERL
Beginner Tech
critical perspectives
debates
frameworks
Hard talks
Intermediate MERL
Intermediate Tech
methods
Research
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Julie Doherty
Akros
Zambia Country Director
Zambia
Thursday
, September 6
9:20am EDT
Opening Talk: The Long Road Home... A Brief History of ICT for Development (ICT4D)
Academy Hall Main Room
Anahi Ayala Iacucci
10:30am EDT
Long Break
Reception Area
11:00am EDT
How to use Kumu to develop a robust programme Theory of Change
Academy Hall Breakout C
Mark Oldenbeuving
12:00pm EDT
Lunch and Demo Tables
Reception Area
1:00pm EDT
Hard Talk: Adaptive Management - is MERL helping or hindering its potential for success?
Academy Hall Main Room
Dave Algoso • Amanda Berman • Julia Coffman • Matt Haikin • Laura O'Brien • Veronica Olazabal
2:00pm EDT
Innovations in data capture and management in DHIS2-based systems: WhatsApp and USSD
Vista
Julie Doherty • Tumainiel Mbwambo
3:00pm EDT
Short Break
Reception Area
3:15pm EDT
USAID Open Data Policy and Intellectual Property Rights
Academy Hall Breakout A
Anna Brenes • Gayle Girod • M. Scott Thompson
4:15pm EDT
Short Break
Reception Area
4:30pm EDT
WhatsApp is What’s Up: How IP Messaging Can Increase Engagement and Sustainability
Academy Hall Main Room
Ambika Samarthya-Howard
4:35pm EDT
MERL on the money: Are we getting funding for data right?
Academy Hall Main Room
Paige Kirby
4:40pm EDT
Dancing with data
Academy Hall Main Room
Tara Susman-Peña
4:45pm EDT
Progressive web apps are the future of digital development (really!)
Academy Hall Main Room
Gabriel Krieshok
4:50pm EDT
Why No One is Using your Dashboard
Academy Hall Main Room
Amanda Makulec
5:00pm EDT
Hard Talk on Dashboards – Everyone wants them, no one uses them, Why?
Academy Hall Main Room
Ritika Bhasker • Amanda Makulec • Kristine Schlenker • Robert Segan • Tim Shifflett
6:00pm EDT
Happy Hour Reception and Fail Fest!
Reception Area
Wayan Vota
6:30pm EDT
Check Yourself Before You Tech Yourself: Common Pitfalls In Deploying Mobile Tools
Academy Hall Main Room
Erin Quinn
6:35pm EDT
How to Fail at Mobile Surveying Without Really Trying
Academy Hall Main Room
Charles Lau • Tavian MacKinnon
6:45pm EDT
Open Data: Are your donors screwing you over? (TBC)
Academy Hall Main Room
Anahi Ayala Iacucci
6:50pm EDT
We Wrote the Book on Evaluation Failures. Literally.
Academy Hall Main Room
Isaac Castillo
7:00pm EDT
Fail Fest: Drink Up and Close Out!
Academy Hall Main Room
Wayan Vota
Friday
, September 7
8:30am EDT
Registration and Morning Networking
Reception Area
9:00am EDT
Welcome to MERL Tech Day 2
Academy Hall Main Room
Linda Raftree
9:10am EDT
Opening Talk: Data Science for MERL in 20 Minutes or Less
Academy Hall Main Room
Greg Maly • Ben Mann
9:30am EDT
Hard Talk: Will Technology and Big Data Replace Monitoring Evaluation, Research and Learning?
Academy Hall Main Room
Alexa Courtney • Madeleine Gleave • Samuel V. Scarpino
10:30am EDT
Measuring impact with remotely sensed imagery and machine learning
Academy Hall Main Room
Brendan O'Neill
10:35am EDT
Ready, set, fly! How to close a data gap from the sky using drones
Academy Hall Main Room
Katsumasa Hamaguchi
10:40am EDT
We live in a 3D world, so let's map it!
Academy Hall Main Room
Amanda Berman
10:45am EDT
Satellite data for decision making and situational awareness?
Academy Hall Main Room
Daniel Berger
10:50am EDT
Mobile Tracking of Land Parcel Ownership in Zambia
Academy Hall Main Room
Julie Doherty
10:55am EDT
Maslow’s Hierarchy of M&E software UX
Academy Hall Main Room
Diego Mijelshon
11:00am EDT
Long Break
Academy Hall Main Room
11:30am EDT
M&E + GIS + Mobile: The power of location, anywhere, anytime, any device
Balcony D
Chuck Conley • Brendan O'Neill
1:00pm EDT
Lunch and Demo Tables
Reception Area
2:00pm EDT
The ethics of data: Who benefits and who risks? A framework for assessment and decision-making
Angle
Siobhan Green • Mala Kumar
3:00pm EDT
Ice Cream Social!
Reception Area
3:30pm EDT
How to win in 20 years
Academy Hall Main Room
Andrew Means
4:00pm EDT
Irresponsible innovation? Time for ICT4D to grow up and get its M&E house in order
Academy Hall Main Room
Annette Brown • Michael Eddy • Anahi Ayala Iacucci • Laura Walker McDonald
5:00pm EDT
Day 2 Summary and close out
Academy Hall Main Room
Maliha Khan • Linda Raftree
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Break Out Session
All
Building bridges
Exploring the Future of MERL
Facing our challenges and shortcomings
Sharing experiences
Strengthening the evidence base on MERL Tech and/or ICT4D approaches
Strengthening the evidence base on MERL Tech and ICT4D approaches
community and capacity
connections
Community Building
All
Building bridges
Strengthening the evidence base on MERL Tech and/or ICT4D approaches
community and capacity
connections
Fail Fest
All
Facing our challenges and shortcomings
Hard Talk
All
Facing our challenges and shortcomings
Lightning Talk
All
Building bridges
Exploring the Future of MERL
Facing our challenges and shortcomings
Sharing experiences
Strengthening the evidence base on MERL Tech and ICT4D approaches
and good practice
challenges
community and capacity
connections
examples
Plenary
All
Exploring the Future of MERL
Pre-Workshop
All
Exploring the Future of MERL
LEVEL
Advanced MERL
Advanced Tech
Any level MERL
Any level of MERL or Tech
Any level Tech
Approaches
Beginner MERL
Beginner Tech
critical perspectives
debates
frameworks
Hard talks
Intermediate MERL
Intermediate Tech
methods
Research
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