M4Data: Beyond Mobile Security – a FrontlineSMS Event in Washington, D.C.

As more and more people recognize the power of the connections that new technologies, and especially mobile phones, facilitate, there has been an increasing amount of concern. These concerns range from the safety of people using these technologies to the quality of the information traveling through mobile and Internet systems. At the same time, an increasing number of government agencies, medical clinics, and other holders of sensitive information are using new technologies to communicate with their stakeholders.

This event takes a step beyond security, instead focusing on the ways that people can design programs, their own behavior, and the information they send to reduce risks to themselves and their programs. In order to give mobile users, and the international development community, a framework to begin answering these questions, FrontlineSMS is releasing a User Guide focused on data integrity- namely, how to make sure that mobile projects are designed to produce high- quality information without posing undue risks to participants.