June 27, 2009

Boston -- The Lemelson-MIT Program, which encourages "sustainable new solutions to real-world problems" has today awarded their $100,000 2009 Award for Sustainability to DataDyne.org co-founder Joel Selanikio, for the development and promotion of the EpiSurveyor mobile data collection system.

Dr. Selanikio: "For every aspect of public health, we need more and better data. EpiSurveyor gives anyone the ability to simply and cheaply collect data on any topic on a mobile phone -- freeing developing countries from reliance on Western consultants for their data needs."

Video profile of EpiSurveyor:

Dr. Selanikio's speech at the Lemelson-MIT Awards

Lemelson-MIT press release:

http://web.mit.edu/invent/n-pressreleases/n-press-09LMA.html

Boston Globe article:

http://www.boston.com/business/ticker/2009/04/georgetown_prof.html

MIT News:

http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2009/lemelson-sustainability-0428.html

InventorSpot.com:

http://inventorspot.com/articles/lemelsonmit_2009_sustainability_award_27031