Hi everyone,
Dimagi is holding our first workshop focused around developing mobile apps for women’s empowerment and safety. The three-day workshop will take place in New Delhi, India from October 6th-8th. About this workshop: With mobile technology, frontline programs can create mobile apps that frontline workers can use to support women's empowerment and safety activities.
Dimagi has been active in this field, and has worked with numerous organizations to build similar mobile apps on our
CommCare platform. With CommCare, thousands of field workers are using mobile apps to track and support their clients with counselling forms, checklists, SMS reminders, and multimedia. This leads to better data collection, reporting, management, community education, and community-level service provision.
The workshop will bring together prominent organisations running frontline service delivery programs focused on women’s empowerment and safety to discuss how technology can strengthen their frontline programs. Over the course of the three days, participants will:
- Gain a general overview of existing mobile applications in the women's empowerment and safety space.
- Brainstorm how mobile technology can support their own programs.
- Build and present an application workflow for a generalised program. Using these workflows, Dimagi staff will develop prototype CommCare applications and freely host them on Dimagi's app store, the CommCare Exchange.
- Have the option to visit Dimagi’s office for an extended capacity building session with a Dimagi Engineer to tailor standard applications for their program.
- Gain hands on experience working on the CommCare platform.
Workshop information:
- Who should attend: Individuals with program experience and basic computer literacy from NGOs, IGOs, funding organizations, research institutions, and government agencies that work in the women's empowerment and safety space.
- Dates, location and time: The three-day workshop will take place each day from 9:30am-5:30pm at the India Habitat Centre (October 6-7) and Dimagi's office in D – 1/28 Vasant Vihar (October 8)
- Workshop Cost: Rs 2000
- Language: The primary language for workshop will be English
- Meals: Tea, coffee, and lunch
To apply for the workshop, please fill out the application form by September 22, 2014. Dimagi will notify organisations of their acceptance status by September 26, 2014.
For more information about the workshop, check out the workshop page on our CommCare platform. Please contact workshops@dimagi.com with any other questions.
Thanks,
Gillian