DataDyne News

New Videos for DataDyne's DatAgro Project in Chile
March 2010

Zoltner Consulting Group, DataDyne's on-the-ground project partner in Chile, has sent us a new video, in English and in Spanish, detailing the DatAgro project: sending agricultural information, weather, and news to rural farmers via SMS.  The same MIP technology is being using by PAHO in Peru to send continuing education messages to health workers.

EpiSurveyor Update on BBC's Digital Planet
March 2010

BBC's Digital Planet, which has covered EpiSurveyor development for several years, provided an update on the latest web/mobile version.

DataDyne at the World Economic Forum at Davos
January 2010

Joel Selanikio represented DataDyne at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, participating in several discussions and finally a panel on "Technology in Society" with Eric Schmidt (CEO, Google), Didier Lombard (Chairman, France Telecom), Rainer Bruderle (German Federal Minister for Economics and Technology), and William Green (CEO, Accenture). Moderated by Adam Lashinsky of Fortune magazine.

VOA: There's an app for public health: EpiSurveyor!
January 2010

Joel Selanikio of DataDyne and Yusuf Ajack Ibrahim (of the Kenyan Ministry of Health, liaison to DataDyne) are featured in this short Voice of America article about EpiSurveyor. Best quote: "Public health? There's an app for that: EpiSurveyor."

Ken Banks and Joel Selanikio on designing mobile software
January 2010

The Winter Edition of Interfaces magazine, a publication of Interaction (formerly the British Human Interface Group), features an article by Ken Banks of Kiwanja.net and Joel Selanikio of DataDyne on "10 Things You Might Want to Know Before Building for Mobile".

Fogarty Center's "Global Health Matters" Focuses on Mobile Health
January 2010

The current "Global Health Matters," the newsletter of the the Fogarty International Center at the National Institutes of Health, focuses on mobile health including EpiSurveyor (with a healthy dose of DataDyne's photos, as well).

PAHO hosts South-South Development Expo 2009
December 2009

DataDyne was well represented, discussing EpiSurveyor as a model for scalable and sustainable software, at the PAHO-Hosted South-South Development Solutions Forum on Global Health, part of the 6th  United Nations Day for South-South Cooperation.

Guatemala's TulaSalud Using EpiSurveyor for Health (video)
November 2009

Guatemala's TulaSalud is working to fight against a very high maternal death rate in Guatemala's rural areas, and now they have a new tool to help them in that battle: EpiSurveyor.  They've provided us with two terrific videos to show what they're doing.

DataDyne on GigaOM
November 2009

The GigaOM blog recently covered a variety of mobile innovations within the field of healthcare and public health -- including DataDyne's EpiSurveyor data collection web and mobile application.

Dr. Selanikio named as top innovator by Forbes magazine
November 2009

Forbes magazine today named Dr. Selanikio as one of today's seven most powerful innovators for his work in mobile and web technologies for public health and development, including EpiSurveyor -- the first web 2.0 application for international development and public health, funded by the United Nations Foundation and Vodafone Foundation. With 894 new users and counting since July!

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