Sponsor
This work was supported by the Development Impact Lab (USAID Cooperative Agreement AID-OAA-A-13-00002), part of the USA ID Higher Education Solutions Network. Andreas Kipf was supported by a fellowship within the FITweltweit program of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Published In
Development Engineering
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
12-2015
Abstract
Global poverty reduction efforts value monitoring and evaluation, but often struggle to translate lessons learned from one intervention into practical application in another intervention. Commonly, data is not easily or often shared between interventions and summary data collected as part of an impact evaluation is often not available until after the intervention is complete. Equally limiting, the workflows that lead to research results are rarely published in a reproducible, reusable, and easy-to-understand fashion for others. Information and communication technologies widely used in commercial and government pro- grams are growing in relevance for international global development professionals and offer a potential towards better data and workflow sharing. However, the technical and custom nature of many data management systems limits their accessibility to non-ICT professionals. The authors propose an end-to- end data collection, management, and dissemination platform designed for use by global development program managers and researchers. The system leverages smartphones, cellular based sensors, and cloud storage and computing to lower the entry barrier to impact evaluation.
DOI
10.1016/j.deveng.2015.12.002
Persistent Identifier
http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/16464
Citation Details
Kipf, A., et al., Aproposed integrated data collection, analysis and sharing platform for impact evaluation. Development Engineering (2015),
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2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.This is an open access article under the CCBY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).