my name is yaw anokwa. i am 5th year ph.d. student in computer science at the university of washington. i am advised by gaetano borriello and tapan parikh. i build, deploy and evaluate technologies for the developing world and in my spare time run the change group. my current research project is called open data kit and you can find examples of my work below or in my curriculum vitae. email me at yanokwa@cs.

• computing for the bottom billion [talk]
  at garfield high school, 2009
• using odk for forest inventories
  yaw anokwa
  at jane goodall institute, 2009
  
• the odk project [talk, brochure, article]
  yaw anokwa
  at africagis, 2009
  
• stories from the field: reflections on hci4d experiences [paper]
  yaw anokwa, thomas n. smyth, divya ramachandran, jahanzeb sherwani, yael schwartzman, rowena luk, melissa ho, neema moraveji, brian derenzi
  in itid, 2009
  
• mobile and cloud applications for emerging regions [course]
  yaw anokwa, carl hartung
  
• open source data collection in the developing world [paper]
  yaw anokwa, carl hartung, waylon brunette, adam lerer, gaetano borriello
  in ieee computer, october 2009
• modular open-source tools for mobile data collection [poster]
  gaetano borriello, yaw anokwa, waylon brunette, carl hartung, adam lerer
  in mhealth summit, october 2009
• open data kit [paper]
  at ubicomp, 2009
• using javarosa in open data kit [talk]
  at openrosa meeting, 2009
• ypin: the cell phone revolution in the developing world
  at world affairs council, 2009
• mobile data collection overview
  at gcamp: emerging technologies for emerging infections, 2009
• computer science and global development [talk]
  at cs 190 at uw, 2009
• stories from a computer scientist [talk]
  at chief sealth high school, 2009
• a young researcher’s thoughts on ictd research [paper]
  in yrictd at ictd 2009
• a new generation of open source data collection tools [paper, demo]
  yaw anokwa, carl hartung, adam lerer, brian derenzi, gaetano borriello
  in ictd 2009
• ureport - mobile data collection [talk, demo]
  yaw anokwa, carl hartung
  at google, 2009
• better health care delivery in east africa through computing [poster]
  at university of washington, 2008
• hacking africa [poster, talk]
  at university of puget sound, 2008
• computing in the developing world [talk]
  at cs4hs, 2008
• building a simpler clinician experience in openmrs [poster]
  yaw anokwa, christian allen, chase yarborough, hamish fraser
  in phi 2008
• computer science in the developing world [talk, video]
  yaw anokwa, brian derenzi, benson limketkai
  at change, 2009
• optimizing links in the developing world [paper, talk]
  yaw anokwa, colin dixon, gaetano borriello, tapan parikh
  in wins-dr at mobicom 2008
• deploying openmrs in rwanda [talk]
  at nokia, 2009
• deploying a medical record system in rural rwanda [paper, poster]
  yaw anokwa, christian allen, tapan parikh
  in hci4cid at chi 2008
  
• reliable data collection in highly disconnected environments using mobile phones [paper]
  brian derenzi, yaw anokwa, tapan parikh, gaetano borriello
  in nsdr at sigcomm 2007
  
• beyond device pairing: new interactions on nfc enabled mobile phones [paper, talk]
  in master's thesis at university of washington, 2007
• the orca card: seattle's public transit pass [website]
  soctech group, 2007
• rfid deployments and rfid scenarios [poster 1, poster 2]
  yaw anokwa, colin dixon, brian ferris, travis kriplean, evan welbourne
  at university of washington, 2007
• mobiscopes for human spaces [article, paper]
  tarek abdelzaher, yaw anokwa, peter boda, jeff burke, deborah estrin, leonidas guibas, aman kansal, sam madden, jim reich
  in ieee pervasive april 2007
  
• context to make you more aware [paper]
  adrienne andrew, yaw anokwa, karl koscher, jonathan lester, gaetano borriello
  in iwsawc at icdcs 2007
  
• the psi board: realizing a phone-centric body sensor network [paper]
  trevor pering, pei zhang, rohit chaudhri, yaw anokwa, roy want
  in bsn 2007
  
• a user interaction model for nfc enabled applications [paper, poster, talk]
  yaw anokwa, gaetano borriello, trevor pering, roy want
  in pertec at percom 2007
  
• gesture connect: facilitating tangible interaction with a flick of the wrist [paper, talk]
  trevor pering, yaw anokwa, roy want
  in tei 2007

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