AEA’s Digital Data & Technology Working Group Week: ‘Lucky’ Luke and Doing Evaluation in a Digital World by Valentine J. Gandhi
Hi, I’m Valentine J Gandhi, I work on Evaluation, Innovation and Tech4Good.
Hi, I’m Valentine J Gandhi, I work on Evaluation, Innovation and Tech4Good.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Hello, I’m Zach Tilton, PhD candidate, evaluation consultant, and chair of the Evaluation 2022 sub-theme working group on Digital Data and Technology.
Hello. I am Sean Owen, PhD, Associate Research Professor and Assessment Manager at the Research and Curriculum Unit (RCU) at Mississippi State University. Founded in 1965, the RCU contributes to Mississippi State University’s mission as a land-grant institution to better the lives of Mississippians by developing curricula and assessments, providing training and learning opportunities for …
My name is Sophia Guevara and I am the Special Libraries Association Information Technology Division (SLA IT) Chair and American Evaluation Association Social Network Analysis Topical Interest Group Co-Chair. At SLA IT, I currently lead the Executive and Advisory boards. In an effort to bring the members of these boards together, I asked that the …
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Are you an experienced evaluator who thinks technology could help your work, but have no idea where to begin? I’m Aditi Patel, a recent graduate of the Fletcher School of Tufts University, where I worked with Cheyanne Scharbatke-Church to understand how seasoned evaluators–such as you, the AEA blog reader!–can think about where and how technology …