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AEA’s Digital Data & Technology Working Group Week: (Re)Shaping Evaluation by Building Data Fluency, One Chart at a Time by Amanda Makulec

Hi, I’m Amanda Makulec, MPH, the Executive Director of the Data Visualization Society and member of the AEA 2022 Digital Data and Technology working group.

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AEA’s Digital Data & Technology Working Group Week: Lessons from MERL for Digital Social and Behavioral Change by Nicola Harford

Hi, my name is Nicola Harford and I am Principal Consultant and Managing Director of iMedia Associates, a consulting company working with donors, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and local media houses in the Global South on social and behaviour change (SBC) interventions. iMedia started out in broadcast and print media—especially using radio and entertainment-education approaches for change—but with the advent of mobile phones and expanding internet access across the globe our clients are increasingly using digital channels and platforms including Instagram, WhatsApp, YouTube, Facebook, and TikTok.

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AEA’s Digital Data & Technology Working Group Week: Using Digital Data to Strengthen the Evaluation of Complex Programs by Michael Bamberger

Greetings. I’m Michael Bamberger and I have been involved with development evaluation since the 1960s. I would like to share with you some ideas on the need to address complexity in program evaluation – and how new sources of big data and data analytics are making this possible.

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AEA’s Digital Data & Technology Working Group Week: Responsible Data in the Digital Age by Talitha Hlaka

Hello there! I’m Talitha Hlaka, and I’m a communications officer at the Center for Learning on Evaluation and Results, in Anglophone Africa (CLEAR-AA). Over the past two years I’ve been supporting work to improve responsible data management in the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) sector, in collaboration with MERL Tech. It’s been an amazing ride!

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AEA’s Digital Data & Technology Working Group Week: (Re)shaping Evaluation with Insights from the MERL Tech Community by Linda Raftree

Hi all, I’m Linda Raftree and I have been leading the MERL Tech community of practice since 2014. MERL Tech is a term we use to describe technology-enabled Monitoring, Evaluation, Research, and Learning (MERL). Our vision is a world where the use of digital tools, technologies, and data for MERL in humanitarian, development, human rights, peacebuilding, and social impact programming is inclusive, ethical, responsible, safe, and sustainable.

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AEA’s Digital Data & Technology Working Group Week: The Shape of Evaluation to Come: From Artificial Accountability to Deep Learning by Zach Tilton

Hello, I’m Zach Tilton, PhD candidate, evaluation consultant, and chair of the Evaluation 2022 sub-theme working group on Digital Data and Technology.

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IC TIG Week: Why So Serious? Using Creative Humor to Facilitate Engagement and Skill Development in Evaluation by Emma Duer

I used to work in a pet store, but people were always asking how big I’d get (apologies to Rodney Dangerfield). Jokes aside for a moment, I am Emma Duer, Vice President of Program Evaluation at Dainis & Company, Inc. As a small independent firm, we often use our flexibility to bring maximum creativity and

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