How USAID Thinks About Mobile Apps

Nextgov: Mobile apps for social good used to be trendy, but international aid organizations need to think harder about how they can use the data they collect, says one senior program manager at the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Vivian Ranson, who works within USAID’s Global Development Lab, says her team sometimes struggles with how to “actually adjust programming” to incorporate the data that frontline workers might be entering into mobile apps.

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