Posts Tagged ‘survey’

How do AppLab Programs Get Started?

Thursday, October 29th, 2009

Health Clinic Registration Desk

How do AppLab programs get started?  How do you really understand the best way to address the problems that people in poor rural communities face?  The approach we have consistently taken for AppLab projects is to conduct a broad “needs assessment” survey at the very outset of the project.  We work with experts in ethnographic research who spend hours and hours interviewing people in the field.  The end result is qualitative data which helps to guide and inform our project work. (more…)