Cell Phones Become Handheld Tools For Global Development
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 22:14
in Mathematics & Economics
Computer scientists are using Android, the open-source mobile operating system championed by Google, to transform a cell phone into a flexible data-collection tool. Their free suite of tools, named Open Data Kit, is already used by organizations around the world that need inexpensive ways to gather information in areas with little infrastructure.