Google Seattle Tech Talk Event - Open Data Kit

[Google Seattle/Kirkland Events Team]

Join us for an evening tech talk as Google celebrates the work of Open
Data Kit.

Open Data Kit: Open-Source Mobile Data Collection by Gaetano Borriello

Open Data Kit (ODK) is a modular, extensible, open-source suite of
tools designed to empower users to build information services for
developing regions. ODK currently provides four tools to this end:
Collect, Aggregate, Voice, and Build. ODK Collect is a mobile platform
that renders forms that support complex interaction logic and
manipulation of data types like text, location, images, audio, video,
and barcodes. ODK Aggregate provides an easy to deploy server that
supports data storage and transfer in the ``cloud'' or on local
servers. ODK Voice renders applications using automated phone prompts
that users respond to with keypad presses. Finally, ODK Build is a
simple drag-and-drop form designer that generates the application
logic used by the tools. Designed to be used together or
independently, ODK tools build on existing open standards and empower
individuals and organizations to build services that push and pull
information in the developing world. Additionally, ODK is supported by
an open-source community which has contributed training documents,
localization support, and additional tools. We will describe four
ongoing deployments covering a range of domains that demonstrate how
the design decisions made in the system architecture of ODK enable a
powerful new class of applications. Finally, we will discuss future
research directions using this platform.

Gaetano Borriello, Professor in the Computer Science &Engineering
department of the University of Washington, also holds the Noe
Chair in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and is an
adjunct professor in the Information School and Department of
Electrical Engineering at the UW.

He has worked in mobile systems and ubiquitous computing for many
years and founded Intel Research Seattle (now Intel Labs Seattle), a
premier research laboratory in that space. His research has focused
on the application of technology to problems in personal health
management, navigation for the cognitively impaired, and more
recently, to public health in the developing world. While on a
sabbatical leave at Google-Seattle for the 2008-2009 academic year, he
led a project (Open Data Kit: http://opendatakit.org) to develop a
suite of mobile tools for community health workers in East Africa
working with several NGOs there.

http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/gaetano/
http://change.washington.edu/
http://opendatakit.org/

Date: April 20, 2010
Time: 6:30-9:00 PM
Location: Google Seattle, 651 N 34th St. Seattle, WA 98103

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