ICTworks

Development is messy and complex, but our projects are set up around linear information systems that are slow, one-way, highly siloed and paper-based. Project management plans, quarterly reports, and project close-out reports don’t provide the type of rapid, real-time information that can lead to better decision-making, more adaptive management systemic learning and knowledge generation, and ultimately better development outcomes.

The US Global Development Lab at USAID is seeking evidence to support the idea that real-time data (RTD) systems have a critical role to play in enabling and supporting adaptive management. They need your help in identifying examples of projects who have used real-time data or digital information flows.

Please submit your examples of real-time data in development.

All quality survey responses will be added to comparative case study report and the best survey responses will be featured as in-depth case studies. A research report will be published at the end of the year that includes the case studies and a literature review of real-time data, to showcase the evidence of data-informed decision making and adaptive management.

As an incentive, those who propose the five best project examples will receive a copy of “Time to Listen: Hearing People on the Receiving End of International Aid” by Dayna Brown, Mary B. Anderson, & Isabella Jean.

If you’d like to contribute more than one case study, please reuse the form.