Industry Software Website home.magpi.com Date founded 2003 | Products Magpi (home.magpi.com) Headquarters Washington, D.C. | |
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Key people Joel Selanikio (CEO, Co-founder)
Rose Donna (COO, Co-founder) | ||
Magpi webinar series part 2 sms data collection demo
Magpi is a software company, founded in 2003 by Joel Selanikio and Rose Donna under the name DataDyne, and is based in Washington, D.C and Nairobi, Kenya. The company provides a mobile data collection platform designed for mobile app, SMS, and IVR (interactive voice response) data collection in the field, data visualization, and broadcast SMS and audio messaging. Magpi’s software was initially called EpiSurveyor. It was the first cloud-based, software-as-a-service product created for global health and international development. The core product and company were both renamed to Magpi in 2013.
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- Magpi webinar series part 2 sms data collection demo
- Magpi webinar series part 1 mobile data collection system
- Notable users
- Awards
- References
The company's origins were detailed by Selanikio in a 2013 TED talk: "The Big Data Revolution in Health". Initially focused on global health and international development, Magpi is now used in many other sectors, and within both developed and developing countries.
Magpi webinar series part 1 mobile data collection system
Notable users
Notable users include World Health Organization, UNICEF, Chemonics, Deloitte, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).
Magpi has been used by the WHO and others as part of evaluation efforts for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.
Magpi was used by the CDC and the Instituto Nacional Saude Publica in Guinea-Bissau in 2014 as part of a SMS-based surveillance system for ebola outbreaks in the region. This zero-reporting system was set up and operational within 8 hours for rapid reporting during the outbreak.
Magpi continues to be used by the IFRC in the Central African Republic in 2013 to improve reporting from health facilities in conflict areas.
Awards
Magpi has received numerous awards, including: