In December 2009, GRND Lab traveled to Kampala, Uganda with the intent of establishing the validity of employing Device X or an analogous networked electronic device in order to gather accurate, high volume data rapidly from the field, especially in areas where it is not feasible to do so efficiently at this time, because of distances, lack of network coverage, lack of electricity and the highly hazardous delays involved in physically processing and transporting paper data.
Two community health care workers testing Device X at the Kiruddu Health Center.
In those twelve days, GRND Lab conducted an extensive research in the medical field and began to explore contacts and applications for Device X in the field of education, emergency relief and aids distribution as well. Through observation and through interviewing community health care workers, representatives of different departments within the UNICEF Uganda Country office, representatives of Government institutions, members of other not-for-profit organizations and NGOs active on the Ugandan territory, GRND Lab compiled a list of important discoveries that will constitute the basis for the next steps to take, in the development of this device.
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