Google Tech Talk - Agile Development with Lives At Stake

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Thursday, July 1, 2010

: “Your mission, if you choose to accept it...”

Collaboration Gaps

Little Appropriate Design

No Sustainable Innovation

The Challenges
A little history

Collaboration Gaps GeoChat, Riff, SeenTags etc...

Appropriate Design



Over 30% of our
users never access
the internet

Handsets don’t
support local
languages well

Timely information is
vital in remote
conditions and scarce
resources


GeoChat is a messaging tool for chatting,
reporting and alerting designed for resource
constrained environments

EIS powered 4636 and sent hundreds of
thousands of messages with relevant
information to Haitians


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From Syntax to SeenTags -
Using human supervision to tune parser algorithms


Gap - Literacy

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InSTEDD Building Blocks for message-based apps

800 Hospitals in Thailand Change Fusion built them a system
needed to improve on GeoChat to collect symptoms
reporting and feedback and alert in realtime. Today it is
for H1N1, H5N1 deployed in 700+ facilities


Project 4636

Rapid
integration &
collaboration
amongst
partners was
the ‘magic’ for
4636 -
next steps are
evaluating and
making it
predictable
EIS is a service of Thomson
Reuters Foundation
Schematic Produced by Ushahidi



Appropriate Design Agile engineering @ ﬁrst mile



imagine...

Imagine a beautiful animal...

It’s not what you think

InSTEDD uses
agile methods
to accelerate
the feedback
loop and
surface good
designs faster


Design techniques
for the bottom billion


Everything has its place


Appropriate Design Agile engineering @ ﬁrst mile

No Sustainable Innovation Innovation Lab


InSTEDD’s
iLabs foster
Local
Sustainable
Innovation
around
humanitarian
needs


Investing in
local capacity
allows new
services and
businesses to
emerge


Users design
their own
protocols and
processes for
mHealth on
GeoChat


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User-Created Innovation

Barcamp Yangon, 2010 - Largest in history

As Ketsana
struck Thailand,
health workers
using GeoChat
alerted each
other of ﬂoods
and how to
avoid injuries

Image (c) Sokunthea- Reuters/ Village north of Phnom Penh

Breaking silos requires a multidisciplinary team, close to
the ﬁeld, with a culture that celebrates lateral thinking

Want to help?

Thanks
Google.org for
your support!

http://instedd.org
edjez@instedd.org
@edjez


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