Happy to report that the iPhone version of EpiSurveyor has been submitted to Apple for approval.  Can't wait: it's a great little app, and it makes data collection and form management a breeze.  

Happy to add a piece on "Mobile phones and the power of data collection" to Ken Banks' "Mobile Message" series at the National Geographic.

Today's blog posting comes from Dr. Isabelle-Anne Bisson of the Migratory Bird Center of the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute at the National Zoological Park in Washington, DC. You can see photos of the project here.

Just got news of another great EpiSurveyor deployment: Internews just completed a survey of information needs among refugees in the Dadaab camps in northern Kenya using EpiSurveyor.

Back in April, NYU's Bill Easterly and Laura Freschi (Easterly's colleague from the excellent but discontinued Aidwatch blog had critiqued a Lancet article on stillbirths.

Continuing on the topic of "using EpiSurveyor for non-health activities" comes this article about use of EpiSurveyor in the refugee camps in Dadaab, Kenya by the Norwegian Refugee Council and Internews.

One of the most exciting things happening with EpiSurveyor in the last year has been the huge increase in users -- to more than 5000 worldwide -- but a particularly exciting bit is the expansion into non-health fields by word-of-mouth from happy users.

Many people are inquiring about how they can use EpiSurveyor to "collect data with SMS", so I thought I'd lay out the two current options:

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (www.ieee.org) has organized a major workshop on e-Health in the EA region.The theme of the workshop is " The role of ICT in streamlining and increasing access to healthcare in the developing world. Its a two day workshop which started yesterday and ends today ( 28th - 29th July 2011 ) at the Kenya Institute of Education (KIE ) Nairobi Kenya.