Demo space: upgrade your monitoring

For registered symposium participants, there will be an opportunity to visit the “Demo space: upgrade your monitoring”, Hilton Addis Ababa Hotel, in the evenings of Monday 8, Tuesday 9, and Thursday 11 April 2013.

Are you interested in the latest information and communications technology in the WASH sector? For three evenings, you can see and test gizmos and gadgets currently being used by WASH practitioners. See practical demonstrations and interact with users and technologies. Learn how to upgrade your monitoring with:

• Monday 17:15 - 19:00,
  • Video reporting, for simplified project reporting and communications with Akvo Really Simple Reporting
  • Using durable barcodes and unique IDs for tracking water points and more in the Sahel by Kristof Bostoen, IRC
  • The WASHCost calculator, for evaluating costs of water and sanitation services
• Tuesday 18:00 - 20:00
  • WASH Technology Applicability Assessment Framework by WASHTech
  • Smart pumps by WellDone, MoMo, for automatic reporting of breakdowns
  • SeeTell and Snapture: Field-level reporting for low-literacy environments by See Saw
  • Agent-based modeling and data mining in the WASH sector by Kristof Bostoen, IRC
• Wednesday 18:00 - 19:00
  • The WASHCost calculator, for evaluating costs of water and sanitation services
  • Smart phone surveys, for sending data from the field with Akvo FLOW
  • Data collection and reporting faults to hand-pump mechanics using Mobile 4 Water in Uganda
  • Re-imagine Reporting by Water For People

Return to the IRC symposium 2013 pages here.