The Global Impact Study’s approach to communications and knowledge sharing has been evolving since the project started in 2007. Initial efforts focused on building a list of people and organizations who might be interested in the project, laying out our research design, and keeping folks up to date about new studies, early research outputs, and where we are in the process.

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.

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.

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.

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.