GeoPoll Names First Chief Research Officer in US - Daily Research News Online - Daily Research News Online

In the US, mobile survey level GeoPoll has hired long-time RTI International exec Charles Lau arsenic its archetypal Chief Research Officer.

Launched successful 2013, GeoPoll gathers real-time information via mobile phones from a web of 300 cardinal users successful Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Through partnerships with telecom providers and a multi-modal level powered by text, dependable and web-based communications, the steadfast enables companies and organizations to stitchery insights connected thing from preferences connected user goods to predetermination transparency and entree to basal authorities services.

Lau (pictured) joins aft much than 12 years astatine non-profit probe institute RTI International, latterly arsenic Director, International Survey Research Program. During his clip with the organization, helium conducted surveys successful much than 30 countries for clients successful the planetary improvement and commercialized sectors, and managed nationalist sentiment surveys with the wide nationalist and peculiar populations for the US State Department, USAID, and the Pew Research Center. With the US CDC, helium helped Ministries of Health successful 10 countries usage mobile phones for illness surveillance; and helium besides led a programme of nationally typical surveys connected exertion adoption with much than 200,000 respondents successful 12 countries.

In his caller role, Lau volition enactment GeoPoll's mobile device-driven information postulation projects.

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