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So, you’re an M&E Tech expert and you’re gearing up to deliver the Survey Instrument of the Century—the one that’ll gather data on every indicator you need, at the same time, at massive scale, and...
View ArticleTo Build or Buy or Both? That is the M&E Technology Systems Question!
At M&E Tech in DC and NYC, we heard from development professionals who were struggling with the question on how to build an organization-wide technology-enabled system for collecting, storing and...
View ArticleTransactional Data: How Mobile Network Operators Leverage Data for Better...
Mobile for Development Impact were delighted to support the recent M & E Tech events in Washington D.C and New York. We see our role as catalysing the creation of commercially sustainable mobile...
View ArticleRemote Sensing: Welcome to the New Data-Enhanced Era of M&E Tech
Demonstrating impact has become an important focus in international development. Yet, how to accurately capture this impact is a challenge many organizations are grappling with. In fact, many rely on...
View ArticleWhy Good Geo-Mapping is Worth a Thousand Words
There’s no denying the importance of having the right information and data when it comes to planning, informing, analyzing, and monitoring and evaluating. How that information is displayed can have a...
View ArticleHow To Beautifully Visualize M&E Results in Microsoft Excel
Excel gets a bad rap for data visualization. I get it. I can barely stand to look at these ugly charts. Can you imagine sending a client something like this? To be honest, I can barely see the...
View ArticleEvaluating Tech Tools – From Pilot Projects to Entire Sectors
ICT4D and M4D as fields are both exciting and clumsy, still in their infancy and most consistent in how quickly they are changing. The M&E Tech Deep Dive in New York in early October 2014 mustered...
View Article3 Systematic Reasons Why M&E Technology Projects Fail
Having worked for ten years in tech-enabled monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL), I think we need to address three systemic issues: complexity, interoperability and affordability. This is...
View ArticleDoes Technology Make Monitoring and Evaluation More or Less Efficient?
“The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation...
View ArticleGet Your Online Diploma in Tech for M&E with TechChange
When it comes to international development, technology moves fast. Whether implementing global or local programs, knowing that you are getting the right data for making decisions and reporting results...
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