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Open Source Cell Phones Becoming Handheld Tools For Global Development
Colleagues,
As reported in Science Daily ... Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment...
... Computer scientists at the University of Washington have used Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to turn a cell phone into a versatile data-collection device...
... Android, the first comprehensive open-source platform for mobile devices, was announced two years ago by the Open Handset Alliance, a group of companies of which Google is a member. For the past year UW computer science and engineering doctoral students Carl Hartung, Yaw Anokwa and Waylon Brunette have worked at Google's Seattle office using Android to create a data-collection platform for use in developing regions...
... Their free suite of tools, named Open Data Kit, is already used by organizations around the world that need inexpensive ways to gather information in areas with little infrastructure ... The tool is described in an article published this month in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Computer magazine. Gaetano Borriello, UW professor of computer science and engineering, and Adam Lerer, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are co-authors...
... In the past some researchers have harnessed individual cell phone models to collect data in the field. But when the phone gets outdated, so does the software. Instead of creating a tool for a single phone, or even a single purpose, the UW team built something that would provide a reusable platform to collect all types of mobile data...
... Open Data Kit's versatile suite of tools can collect data; store, view and export data on remote servers; and manage devices in the field from a central office. The output is compatible with emerging data standards such as the Open Medical Records System, which aims to coordinate health records in the developing world...
... Funding for the project comes from Google.org, the philanthropic arm of the company. The code is freely available and ongoing research will be based at the university...
See MedTech-IQ multimedia search results for mHealth: http://medtechiq.ning.com/main/search/search?q=mhealth
Read on at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091029141249.htm
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As reported in Science Daily ... Mobile phones are on the verge of becoming powerful tools to collect data on many issues, ranging from global health to the environment...
... Computer scientists at the University of Washington have used Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to turn a cell phone into a versatile data-collection device...
... Android, the first comprehensive open-source platform for mobile devices, was announced two years ago by the Open Handset Alliance, a group of companies of which Google is a member. For the past year UW computer science and engineering doctoral students Carl Hartung, Yaw Anokwa and Waylon Brunette have worked at Google's Seattle office using Android to create a data-collection platform for use in developing regions...
... Their free suite of tools, named Open Data Kit, is already used by organizations around the world that need inexpensive ways to gather information in areas with little infrastructure ... The tool is described in an article published this month in the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Computer magazine. Gaetano Borriello, UW professor of computer science and engineering, and Adam Lerer, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, are co-authors...
... In the past some researchers have harnessed individual cell phone models to collect data in the field. But when the phone gets outdated, so does the software. Instead of creating a tool for a single phone, or even a single purpose, the UW team built something that would provide a reusable platform to collect all types of mobile data...
... Open Data Kit's versatile suite of tools can collect data; store, view and export data on remote servers; and manage devices in the field from a central office. The output is compatible with emerging data standards such as the Open Medical Records System, which aims to coordinate health records in the developing world...
... Funding for the project comes from Google.org, the philanthropic arm of the company. The code is freely available and ongoing research will be based at the university...
See MedTech-IQ multimedia search results for mHealth: http://medtechiq.ning.com/main/search/search?q=mhealth
Read on at: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091029141249.htm
ENJOY!
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