Now available: MERL Tech workshop recordings from SAMEA Conference

MERL Tech and Data Innovators had the pleasure of hosting the Tech Enabled MERL strand at SAMEA’s 2022 conference. This included eleven pre-conference virtual workshops on September 19 and 20.

In case you missed them, you can catch up here!

• Excel 101 part 1 and part 2. Ronald Waiswa, Blessing Muvuti, Victor Kiwujja, Kate Mwaura (Polaris Technical Services) walk you through the basics of this vital tool for M&E data.
• Survey CTO best Practices: M&E Data Collection. Marta Costa and Mofya Phiri (SurveyCTO) provide an overview of the Survey CTO tool.
• Fundamentals of Data Governance for M&E. Mark Irura (Independent Consultant); Jerusha Govender (Data Innovators); Linda Raftree (MERL Tech), Desiree Jason (DSD, SA) share good data governance practices for M&E.
• Introduction to text analytics and working group. Jonas Noren (Dav|Consulting) and Matthew McConnachie (NIRAS)present an overview of what text analytics is and how it might serve the MERL sector.
• Data Communication and Data visualisation lays out good practices for data viz.
• Social Network Analysis Jerusha Govender (Data Innovators), Jill Anne Brown and Simran Parwani (Data Visualisation Society) run you through how social network analysis methods work and how you can apply them in your M&E work.
• Data Integration: Step-by-step Teboho Letuka, Jerusha Govender and Amanada Ncube (Data Innovators) offer an overview of how data integration works at government levels.
• Using WhatsApp and Chatbots for MERL Pippa Yeats (Turn.io) explains how chatbots work and how they can be used for MERL purposes.
• Open Data Kit (ODK) for beginners Ronald Waiswa, Blessing Muvuti, Victor Kiwujja, Kate Mwaura (Polaris Technical Services) give an overview of this data collection tool for M&E practitioners.
• M&E and the Digital Principles Framework Mark Mulobi (Digital Impact Alliance – DIAL) introduces you to a framework for evaluating technology programs.
• Open Source MERL Tech is a community of practice and in this workshop Stephanie Coker, Bonnie Wolfe, Ronald Munjoma, Mutsa Chinyamakobvu and Shriya Singh (MERL Center – a collaboration between MERL Tech and GitHub) share the projects they’ve been working on and let you know how you can get involved.