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DEBrief

Capturing Information, Documenting Growth
DE launches new tool “DEbrief”

The Digital Equalizer program has launched DEbrief, a new MIS reporting tool to monitor its schools for the 2006-07 Indian academic year. DE currently operates in 634 underserved schools across 13 states in India. To date, the program has relied on the collective knowledge of its field staff and managers, a variety of documents spread across hard drives, and manually created websites to store information about its schools. Additionally, its field staff has used MS excel files to send their managers status updates on school progress.

DE has an aggressive growth path (1000 new schools by end of 2007). DEbrief offers a systematic mechanism for capturing information and communicating effectively between staff and management – especially as DE plans to grow aggressively over the years. DEbrief will serve as a central repository for information as well as a means for internal communication. The tool will be accessible to both internal (DE staff, management) and external (sponsors) audiences. Detailed data and reports of the program at the state, cluster, and school levels, can easily be accessed and reviewed using Debrief.

AIF thanks Amit Bakshi, a dedicated Bay Area volunteer for spearheading this effort and helping make DEbrief a reality. Amit spent 6 months in the DE-Bangalore office working on DEbrief.  

Visit DEBrief at http://debrief.aifoundation.org/!