Magpi

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., USA and Nairobi, Kenya.

This article is about the software company. For the Raspberry Pi magazine, see The MagPi.
Magpi, Inc.
IndustrySoftware
Founded2003 (as DataDyne)
HeadquartersWashington, D.C., USA
Key people
Joel Selanikio (CEO, Co-founder)
Rose Donna (COO, Co-founder)
ProductsMagpi (home.magpi.com)
Websitehome.magpi.com

The company's origins were detailed by Selanikio in a 2013 TED talk: "The Big Data Revolution in Health".[1][2]

Users

Magpi has been used by the WHO and others as part of evaluation efforts for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.[3]

In 2014, Magpi was used by the Instituto Nacional Saude Publica in Guinea-Bissau in a pilot investigation of SMS disease reporting.[4]

Magpi continues to be used by the IFRC in the Central African Republic since 2013 to improve reporting from health facilities in conflict areas.[5]

Awards

Magpi has received numerous awards, including:

  • 21st Century Achievement Award for Collaboration – The Computer World (2012)[6]
  • FRIDA Award for contributing to the information society in Latin America (2010)
  • Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award for Healthcare (2009)[7]
  • The Tech Museum Award (2008)[8]
  • The Stockholm Challenge Award (2008)[9]
  • Social Enterprise of the Year – Fast Company (2009)[10]
  • The World Bank's Development Marketplace Competition (2003)
gollark: Your input WILL be requested until I get a nice solution for this somehow.
gollark: Thus, THOUGHTS WANTED.
gollark: I had another idea, which was to not have virtual channels and just have virtual point-to-point links then use magic™ to find connected subgraphs of things, but this would also be complex.
gollark: Is it to just maintain a list of "bridging" links and do inter-virtual-channel routing on those? This would be a bit flaky and complex I think.
gollark: Is the system to just merge the virtual channels? This would be problematic to unmerge later.

References
  1. "The big-data revolution in healthcare". TED.com. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  2. Selanikio, Joel. "Joel Selanikio - Speaker - TED.com". TED.com. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  3. "GPEI-". PolioEradication.org. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  4. Daily zero-reporting for suspect Ebola using short message service (SMS) in Guinea-Bissau
  5. "IFRC-RAMP-CAR-2016.pdf" (PDF). Dropbox.com. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  6. "Harnessing the computing power of low-cost mobile phones". ComputerWorld.com.au. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  7. Plank, Willa (27 September 2010). "They Won. And Then What?". Retrieved 8 March 2017 – via www.wsj.com.
  8. "Past Laureates". TheTech.org. 1 September 2015. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  9. "The winners in the Stockholm Challenge Award 2008". Telecentre.org. Archived from the original on 13 September 2016. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
  10. "The 10 Best Social Enterprises of 2009 - Fast Company - The Future Of Business". FastCompany.com. 1 December 2008. Retrieved 8 March 2017.
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