mobile field
Posted by HeatherCole-Lewis on May 04, 2009
Midway through last week’s Mobile Tech 4 Social Change BarCamp in Washington DC, my fellow public health student, Ada Kwan, and I were inspired to propose a session on the role of academic research in the current mobile movement – a topic of many of our personal conversations.
Among the participants were representatives from academia (including but not limited to public health, computer science, information technology, and political science), industry, NGOs, funding agencies, and government. The session sparked very constructive dialogue that I would like to share.
As the session unfolded, the complexity of this idea quickly became evident. The original question—what is the role of academic research in mobiles for social change— opened the floodgates for more difficult questions:
