Global Impact Study at ICTD 2012

Many of the Global Impact Study research partners will be attending ICTD 2012 in Atlanta in March. In addition to TASCHA staff members, representatives from our survey implementation teams from Bangladesh, Brazil, Chile, Ghana, and the Philippines will attend, as will some of the principal investigators of our in-depth studies. Components of the Global Impact Study will be highlighted in two open sessions and one poster presentation.

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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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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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Survey data analysis and integration begins with two workshops

April 18-21, 2011 was very busy and productive for us here at the Global Impact Study. We held two workshops - one on survey data analysis and one on our project-wide data integration plan. During the survey data analysis workshop, we reviewed initial user survey data to identify three high-level reports that we will produce this spring: a user profile report, a report on services offered at public access ICT venues and how people are using them, and a report on perceived impacts of using public access ICT.

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Communications and knowledge-sharing discussion

In March 2010 Global Impact Study team members working on the in-depth studies, survey, and inventory activities gathered to harmonize impact indicators and discuss the project's approach to communications knowledge sharing. You can download the communications and knowledge-sharing presentation and view photos from the workshop.

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