TASCHA Talk: Development and implementation of surveys

On October 20, 2011, Araba Sey and Chris Rothschild will discuss the development and implementation of the Global Impact Study surveys. The talk is part of the Technology and Social Change Group's (TASCHA) TASCHA Talk series.

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June 2011 workshop report

As a follow up to our post about our June 2011 project-wide workshop, we are now sharing the report from the workshop. The report contains an overall summary of the three day workshop, as well as summaries from each of the workshop sessions. Also included in the report are six annexes that include more detailed notes on some of the sessions.

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Survey data analysis reports coming soon

We will soon release three reports based on top-level analysis of user and venue survey data from Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, and the Philippines. Based on analysis conducted by the survey team, the three reports include a profile of public access venue users, public access venue uses and services, and perceived impacts of public access venues.

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Emerging findings from the Interpersonal Communications study

Fieldwork for the Interpersonal Communications study is complete and data analysis is well underway. The study, which is investigating communication and public access venue use between people in the Philippines and their family members who are working overseas, has identified some early, emerging findings from the user surveys.

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Project-wide workshop launches next phase of study

After two years of fieldwork, we convened our research partners from around the world for a project-wide workshop during the last week of June, 2011. This workshop is significant in the Global Impact Study timeline, as it launched the next phase of our study - data analysis and integration. The majority of the workshop was devoted to sharing and discussing the emerging findings from each of the research activities.

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