Year: 2017
Type: report
Abstract: Data enables Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) to quantify the impact of their initiatives to themselves and to others. The increasing amount of data stored today can be seen as a direct consequence of the falling costs in obtaining it. Cheap data acquisition harnesses existing communications networks to collect information. Globally, more people are connected by the mobile phone network than by the Internet. We worked with Vita, a development organisation implementing green initiatives to develop an SMS-based data collection application to collect social data surrounding the impacts of their initiatives. We present our system design and lessons learned from on-the-ground testing.
Authors: Matilda Rhode, Omer Rana, Timothy Edwards
Language: English
Subfield: Information Systems
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Climate action
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2770084509