DataDyne wins USAID Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention

February 2013

Under the leadership of Physicians for Human Rights, a team consisting of PHR, Informacam and DataDyne has just been awarded 1st prize in the Tech Challenge for Atrocity Prevention. The challenge aims to identify “new and innovative ways to enable the documentation of relevant evidence that may be used to deter or hold perpetrators accountable, while minimizing the risk posed to those collecting this information.” The Challenge, sponsored by USAID and Humanity United, comes with a $5000 prize, but far more importantly it recognizes the important contributions being made by PHR, Informacam, and…

Goodbye EpiSurveyor: Hello Magpi!

October 2012

More features, more speed, more ease of use, same prices! In January 2013, DataDyne will unveil a completely new version of EpiSurveyor — including a new name! Yes, we’re retiring the venerable “EpiSurveyor” — with 10,000 users in 170 countries easily the most widely used mobile data collection system in the development sector, and the most successful ICT4D (ICT for development) project ever — and replacing it with “Magpi“. We chose Magpi (rhymes with “sky”) because we realized that a lot of people thought a product named “EpiSurveyor” could only…

Nominations open for the Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation

September 2012

Each year, the Lemelson-MIT Program recognizes outstanding inventors working on technological inventions to help the poor in developing countries with the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Global Innovation. The award also establishes inventor role models who can inspire youth to solve challenges in the developing world through invention. Past winners include Martin Fisher, BP Agrawal, Elizabeth Hausler, Ashok Gadgil, and DataDyne’s own Dr. Joel Selanikio. DataDyne encourages anyone working on technological innovation for charitable or development purposes to apply to the award.

DataDyne Wins ComputerWorld 21st Century Achievement Award

July 2012

Hot on the heels of being named one of 200 ComputerWorld laureates for “visionary applications of information technology promoting positive social, economic and educational change,” DataDyne was picked as one of only 10 laureates to receive the 21st Century Achievement Award. DataDyne won in the area of “collaboration,” in recognition of the impact its EpiSurveyor mobile data collection system is having on data collection and sharing for international development and global health. The award was presented at a gala event in Washington’s Mellon Auditorium. Read more at MSNBC or watch…