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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
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Community Building
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Building bridges
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Fail Fest
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Facing our challenges and shortcomings
Hard Talk
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Facing our challenges and shortcomings
Lightning Talk
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Building bridges
Exploring the Future of MERL
Facing our challenges and shortcomings
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challenges
community and capacity
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Exploring the Future of MERL
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Wednesday
, September 5
Chemonics
9:00am •
Workshop: What can Blockchain offer to MERL? (Separate registration required)
World Bank, "I" Building, Room I-1-200
9:00am •
Workshop: Big Data and Evaluation (Separate registration required)
Thursday
, September 6
Academy Hall Breakout A
11:00am •
The Challenge and (desperate) Need for Organizational Data Literacy
2:00pm •
I need that data yesterday! Three experiences of building M&E technology solutions
3:15pm •
USAID Open Data Policy and Intellectual Property Rights
Academy Hall Breakout B
11:00am •
Designing for equity: tools and approaches for assessing local equity to maximize impact and improve service delivery
2:00pm •
Measuring impact with remotely sensed imagery and machine learning
3:15pm •
Blockchain solutions for MEL data management and end use
Academy Hall Breakout C
11:00am •
How to use Kumu to develop a robust programme Theory of Change
2:00pm •
Unleashing the power of data and technology for gender just programming and development interventions
3:15pm •
When MERL takes over: Balancing data and information needs with digital development
Academy Hall Main Room
9:00am •
Welcome to MERL Tech 2018!
9:20am •
Opening Talk: The Long Road Home... A Brief History of ICT for Development (ICT4D)
9:45am •
What's the State of MERL Tech?
1:00pm •
Hard Talk: Adaptive Management - is MERL helping or hindering its potential for success?
4:30pm •
WhatsApp is What’s Up: How IP Messaging Can Increase Engagement and Sustainability
4:35pm •
MERL on the money: Are we getting funding for data right?
4:40pm •
Dancing with data
4:45pm •
Progressive web apps are the future of digital development (really!)
4:50pm •
Why No One is Using your Dashboard
5:00pm •
Hard Talk on Dashboards – Everyone wants them, no one uses them, Why?
6:30pm •
Check Yourself Before You Tech Yourself: Common Pitfalls In Deploying Mobile Tools
6:35pm •
How to Fail at Mobile Surveying Without Really Trying
6:45pm •
Open Data: Are your donors screwing you over? (TBC)
6:50pm •
We Wrote the Book on Evaluation Failures. Literally.
7:00pm •
Fail Fest: Drink Up and Close Out!
Angle
11:00am •
Integrating MERL with program design: Presenting an approach to balance your MERL strategy with four principles
2:00pm •
Adapting agile for MERL
3:15pm •
Good, cheap, fast: Pick two
Balcony D
11:00am •
Building Digital Information Retrieval at Scale for Education and the Social Sector
2:00pm •
From Traditional Evaluation to Data Analytics – PCI’s Experience Assessing the Impact of a Digital Social Enterprise
3:15pm •
Using mHealth for training and quality assurance of frontline RMNCH workers in Sindh, Pakistan
Balcony E
11:00am •
MERL+ML+AID: USAID works to get the recipe right!
2:00pm •
Application maintenance isn’t sexy, but critical to success: how to ensure sustainability and maintainability in the non-profit/development agency space
3:15pm •
The TEGA Selfie App – an innovative mobile research app that empowers girls to show us their world
Reception Area
8:30am •
Registration and Meet and Greet
10:30am •
Long Break
12:00pm •
Lunch and Demo Tables
3:00pm •
Short Break
4:15pm •
Short Break
6:00pm •
Happy Hour Reception and Fail Fest!
Vista
11:00am •
Mobile Data Collection combined with Business Intelligence tools to support survey management and data driven decision making
2:00pm •
Innovations in data capture and management in DHIS2-based systems: WhatsApp and USSD
3:15pm •
From words to wisdom: Exploring free tools for qualitative data analysis
Friday
, September 7
Academy Hall Breakout A
11:30am •
Building bridges between data science and development evaluation
2:00pm •
Creating a MERL culture at your Nonprofit
Academy Hall Breakout B
11:30am •
Moving from data to action: How can real-time data enable adaptive management?
2:00pm •
Blockchain Learning Agenda: Practical MERL Workshop
Academy Hall Breakout C
11:30am •
Measuring complexity: A real-time system analysis tool
2:00pm •
From call times to comment analysis: combining digital data sources to understand change
Academy Hall Main Room
9:00am •
Welcome to MERL Tech Day 2
9:10am •
Opening Talk: Data Science for MERL in 20 Minutes or Less
9:30am •
Hard Talk: Will Technology and Big Data Replace Monitoring Evaluation, Research and Learning?
10:30am •
Measuring impact with remotely sensed imagery and machine learning
10:35am •
Ready, set, fly! How to close a data gap from the sky using drones
10:40am •
We live in a 3D world, so let's map it!
10:45am •
Satellite data for decision making and situational awareness?
10:50am •
Mobile Tracking of Land Parcel Ownership in Zambia
10:55am •
Maslow’s Hierarchy of M&E software UX
11:00am •
Long Break
3:30pm •
How to win in 20 years
3:40pm •
Scaling storytelling with data science at GlobalGiving
3:45pm •
Evaluating the Technology Incubator Fund: Do small grants make a big difference in appetite for technology in programs?
3:50pm •
MERL Tech and the American Evaluation Association: Let's build a bridge
3:55pm •
Mapping ICT4D Evidence Base: How much evidence is there really?
4:00pm •
Irresponsible innovation? Time for ICT4D to grow up and get its M&E house in order
5:00pm •
Day 2 Summary and close out
Angle
11:30am •
Responsible Data: Ready, Set? Stop and Prep.
2:00pm •
The ethics of data: Who benefits and who risks? A framework for assessment and decision-making
Balcony D
11:30am •
M&E + GIS + Mobile: The power of location, anywhere, anytime, any device
2:00pm •
The other CoP: Building Communities of Practice
Balcony E
11:30am •
I survived a machine learning pilot
2:00pm •
The Taming of the Metrics with the Act Against AIDS Metrics Database (AAAMD): MERL with Ingenuity
Reception Area
8:30am •
Registration and Morning Networking
1:00pm •
Lunch and Demo Tables
3:00pm •
Ice Cream Social!
Vista
11:30am •
Up your data game: How to use R to wrangle, analyze, and visualize data faster and better
2:00pm •
Evidence-based decision-making & impact: The future of MERL through technical and qualitative tools
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Fail Fest
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Hard Talk
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Facing our challenges and shortcomings
Lightning Talk
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Building bridges
Exploring the Future of MERL
Facing our challenges and shortcomings
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Strengthening the evidence base on MERL Tech and ICT4D approaches
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Plenary
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Exploring the Future of MERL
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Exploring the Future of MERL
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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
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