The South African Monitoring & Evaluation Association conference 2009 will bring together a range of practitioners, experts, users, service providers, academics and other parties interested in the field of Monitoring & Evaluation (M&E).

The conference starts tomorrow, 19 August at Emperor’s Palace in Johannesburg and continues till Friday with workshops having started yesterday and today.

We’ve been involved in a number of projects where Mobile Researcher has been used for project M&E and have also worked closely with organisations such as the MRC, Stellenbosch University and Philani to build custom web-based management consoles (leveraging the Mobile Researcher API) which include M&E elements. We’re also in the early stages of projects with specialist M&E agencies like Khulisa.

I’ll be at SAMEA demonstrating and exhibiting Mobile Researcher and how it can be leveraged, either out-the-box, or as a platform, to incorporate mobile technologies as a powerful monitoring and evaluation tool.

If you are attending the conference, please drop by or ping me on Twitter if you’d like to meet up.