Dimagi is pleased to announce two upcoming
workshops that will teach participants how to use CommCare (www.commcarehq.org), Dimagi’s open source,
mobile platform for frontline workers. Dimagi has had great success introducing
CommCare to organizations in previous workshops in Senegal, Mozambique,
Guatemala, and India.
The two upcoming CommCare workshops will take
place in:
- Nairobi, Kenya: September 19 to Friday,
September 20 (application deadline is Sept 1)
- Bangkok, Thailand: Monday, September 30 to Tuesday, October 1st (application
deadline is Sept 10).
WHY COMMCARE? With CommCare, anyone can
deploy their own mobile applications that can be loaded into inexpensive phones
and used by community-based frontline workers. CommCare is being deployed in 30
countries and is used by thousands of frontline workers to track and support
their clients with registration forms, checklists, SMS reminders, and
multimedia. This leads to better data collection, reporting, worker management,
community education, and community-level service provision.
WHAT WILL THE WORKSHOP COVER? Each workshop
will last two days. The first half of the first day will be a general overview
of mHealth and Dimagi’s open source tools. The rest of the workshop will focus
on building participants' technical capacity to use CommCare’s online authoring
tools to create CommCare applications. Workshop participants will be walked
through the basic steps of how to use these freely available, online tools.
WHAT WILL IT COST? All workshops are free,
however Dimagi will not provide per diems or travel stipends. Lunch and coffee
will be provided daily.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND? Staff with basic computer
literacy from NGOs, IGOs, funding organizations, research institutions, and
government agencies.
HOW DO I APPLY? Please fill out the online
application forms for the Nairobi Workshop (http://goo.gl/DUqQY7)
by September 1st or the Bangkok Workshop (http://goo.gl/Qjk6HZ)
by September 10th. Note that attendance may be limited due to space
availability.
Please contact workshops@dimagi.com with any other
questions.