if you missed this talk, the video is up at http://change.washington.edu/2009/10/gaetano-borriello-on-open-data-kit/
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 15:27, Yaw Anokwa <yanokwa at gmail.com> wrote: > This Tuesday at the CSE Colloqium, Gaetano Borriello will be > presenting Open Data Kit, work he did while on sabbatical at Google. > If you missed his practice talk last week, now's your chance to see > the final product. > > Open Data Kit (ODK) is an open-source mobile data collection toolkit > for the citizen science, public health, and environmental monitoring > communities. These groups share the fact that they all have limited > resources and tend to be behind the technology curve. ODK?s goals are > three-fold: > > (1) make tools highly modular and customizable so that they can be > easily composed and/or specialized into appropriate arrangements for > the task at hand; > > (2) exploit open interfaces and standards so that solutions are not > ?silo-ed? into monolithic enterprise-level packages that are difficult > to understand and maintain; and > > (3) get these communities to take advantage of evolving technologies > including powerful mobile clients (e.g., Android), flexible and > scalable server infrastructure (e.g., AppEngine) so as to reach a > wider base of developers and avoid early obsolescence. > > In this talk, Gaetano will describe the current status and research > and development plans. For those who cannot make it, the talk will > live streamed at > http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/colloq.info.html#MBONE > > What: Gaetano Borriello on Open Data Kit > When: Tuesday, October 13 at 3.30pm > Where: UW, Electrical Engineering Building, Room 105 >
