Google Tech Talk - Agile Development with Lives At Stake

Agile Technology with Lives at Stake

Thursday, July 1, 2010

Who we are - What we do - How we workThursday, July 1, 2010

: “Your mission, if you choose to accept it...”


A little history

Collaboration Gaps

Little Appropriate Design

No Sustainable Innovation

The ChallengesThursday, July 1, 2010

Collaboration Gaps

Appropriate Design


GeoChat, Riff, SeenTags etc...


Over 30% of our users never access the internet

Handsets don’t support local languages well

Timely information is vital in remote conditions and scarce resources


GeoChat is a messaging tool for chatting, reporting and alerting designed for resource constrained environments


EIS powered 4636 and sent hundreds of thousands of messages with relevant information to Haitians


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From Syntax to SeenTags -Using human supervision to tune parser algorithms


Gap - LiteracyThursday, July 1, 2010

InSTEDD Building Blocks for message-based apps

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800 Hospitals in Thailand needed to improve reporting and feedback for H1N1, H5N1

Change Fusion built them a system on GeoChat to collect symptoms and alert in realtime. Today it is deployed in 700+ facilities


Schematic Produced by Ushahidi

EIS is a service of Thomson Reuters Foundation

Rapid integration & collaboration amongst partners was the ‘magic’ for 4636 - next steps are evaluating and making it predictable

Project 4636


Collaboration Gaps

Appropriate Design



Agile engineering @ first mile


Imagine a beautiful animal...

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It’s not what you thinkThursday, July 1, 2010

InSTEDD uses agile methods to accelerate the feedback loop and surface good designs faster


Design techniques for the bottom billion


Everything has its placeThursday, July 1, 2010

Collaboration Gaps

Appropriate Design




Innovation Lab


InSTEDD’s iLabs foster Local Sustainable Innovation around humanitarian needs


Investing in local capacity allows new services and businesses to emerge


Users design their own protocols and processes for mHealth on GeoChat


User-Created Innovation

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Barcamp Yangon, 2010 - Largest in historyThursday, July 1, 2010

Image (c) Sokunthea- Reuters/ Village north of Phnom Penh

As Ketsana struck Thailand, health workers using GeoChat alerted each other of floods and how to avoid injuries


Breaking silos requires a multidisciplinary team, close to the field, with a culture that celebrates lateral thinking


Collaboration Gaps

Appropriate Design




Innovation Lab


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