Social Impact using offline forms with ODK's Yaw Anokwa

Social Impact using offline forms with ODK's Yaw Anokwa

In this episode of ACM ByteCast in association with Hanselminues, Scott Hanselman welcomes research scientist, software engineer, and entrepreneur Yaw Anokwa. Yaw is the founder and CEO of ODK, the offline data collection platform that helps fight disease, poverty, and inequity. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Washington and likes to keep his bio short and sweet.

Yaw describes how he felt the urge to pivot his career into a direction of positive social impact as a graduate student at the University of Washington. A volunteer experience with Partners in Health in Rwanda and a software engineering internship at Google showed him the potential for technology to empower people and change lives—specifically through ODK—which became his chief project and passion. Yaw and Scott discuss ODK’s main differentiator, “powerful offline forms,” as well as user interface affordances made to customize ODK for its users, such as rural farmers in Uganda. He also shares the joy of working on a product that focuses on public good and some principles that have helped him to succeed.

Avsnitt(1000)

Building the Internet with sendmail's Eric Allman

Building the Internet with sendmail's Eric Allman

In this episode, in association with the ACM ByteCast, Scott talks with Eric Allman, one of the foundational figures of the early internet. Best known for creating Sendmail, the mail transfer agent th...

19 Mars 32min

A cognition engine for science with Allen Stewart

A cognition engine for science with Allen Stewart

Scott Hanselman sits down with Allen Stewart, Partner Director of Software Engineering at Microsoft, to explore how AI agents with persistent memory are transforming scientific research and software e...

12 Mars 30min

Agentic Workflows with Don Syme

Agentic Workflows with Don Syme

In this episode, Scott talks with Don Syme about the emerging world of agentic developer workflows and what it means when coding tools move from autocomplete helpers to collaborators. They explore how...

5 Mars 33min

Inference Engineering with Baseten's Philip Kiely

Inference Engineering with Baseten's Philip Kiely

This week on the show, Scott talks to Philip Kiley about his new book, Inference Engineering. Inference Engineering is your guide to becoming an expert in inference. It contains everything that Philip...

26 Feb 33min

That's good Mojo - Creating a Programming Language for an AI world with Chris Lattner

That's good Mojo - Creating a Programming Language for an AI world with Chris Lattner

What does it take to design a programming language from scratch when the target isn’t just CPUs, but GPUs, accelerators, and the entire AI stack? In this episode, I sit down with legendary language ar...

19 Feb 41min

The Rise of The Claw with OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger

The Rise of The Claw with OpenClaw's Peter Steinberger

There’s a new wave of AI tools that don’t just live in the cloud, don’t just autocomplete code, and don’t just sit in a browser tab. They reach into your local environment, understand your context, an...

12 Feb 43min

The AI Vampire with Gas Town's Steve Yegge

The AI Vampire with Gas Town's Steve Yegge

AI is making developers dramatically more productive...so why is everyone so exhausted? In this episode, Scott talks with Steve Yegge, legendary blogger and creator of Gas Town, a multi-agent orchestr...

5 Feb 34min

Kinder Code Reviews with AI? with Qodo's Nnenna Ndukwe

Kinder Code Reviews with AI? with Qodo's Nnenna Ndukwe

Code reviews are one of the most powerful tools teams have for maintaining quality — but they're also one of the most emotionally charged parts of the development process. With AI coding agents genera...

29 Jan 30min

Populärt inom Utbildning

historiepodden-se
rss-bara-en-till-om-missbruk-medberoende-2
det-skaver
alska-oss
harrisons-dramatiska-historia
nu-blir-det-historia
not-fanny-anymore
roda-vita-rosen
johannes-hansen-podcast
sektledare
rss-viktmedicinpodden
sa-in-i-sjalen
i-vantan-pa-katastrofen
allt-du-velat-veta
rss-max-tant-med-max-villman
rss-sjalsligt-avkladd
rss-basta-livet
rikatillsammans-om-privatekonomi-rikedom-i-livet
rss-traningsklubben
sex-pa-riktigt-med-marika-smith