This Tuesday at the CSE Colloqium, Professor Gaetano Borriello will be presenting Open Data Kit, work he did while on sabbatical at Google.

Open Data Kit (ODK) is an open-source mobile data collection toolkit for the citizen science, public health, and environmental monitoring communities. These groups share the fact that they all have limited resources and tend to be behind the technology curve. ODK’s goals are three-fold:

(1) make tools highly modular and customizable so that they can be easily composed and/or specialized into appropriate arrangements for the task at hand;

(2) exploit open interfaces and standards so that solutions are not “silo-ed” into monolithic enterprise-level packages that are difficult to understand and maintain; and

(3) get these communities to take advantage of evolving technologies including powerful mobile clients (e.g., Android), flexible and scalable server infrastructure (e.g., AppEngine) so as to reach a wider base of developers and avoid early obsolescence.

In this talk, Borriello will describe the current status and research and development plans. For those who cannot make it, the talk will live streamed and recorded.

What: Gaetano Borriello on Open Data Kit
When: Tuesday, October 13 at 3.30pm
Where: UW, Electrical Engineering Building, Room 105