A UW news release concerning the Open Data Kit initiative, led by UW CSE professor Gaetano Borriello.
“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. Organizations that want a fully customizable way to, say, snap pictures of a deforested area, add the location coordinates and instantly submit that information to a global environmental database now have a flexible and free way to do it.”
Read the full article here. Learn more about Open Data Kit here. Learn about the overall UW “Change” developing world research effort here.