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Nafundi
February 14, 2014
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Replacing paper forms with smart forms on phones and tablets
Dr. Yaw Anokwa, Dr. Carl Hartung http://nafundi.com
Collecting data in low-income regions is difficult.
Paper is common, but can be very limiting.
0 30 60 90 120 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Developed Developing Growth of cellular technology enables innovation Mobile subscriptions per 100 inhabitants
ODK uses phones and tablets to digitize data collection. 1.
Build form 2. Collect data 3. Aggregate results
Build: Drag and drop prompts for form creation.
Collect: Display prompts for data collection.
Collect: Multiple languages and multimedia ability.
Aggregate: Host data and provide extraction interfaces.
Aggregate: Stores or forwards data to external systems.
1. Build form 2. Collect data 3. Aggregate results
XLSForm: Build and share forms with Excel
enketo: Collect data offline in the browser.
Map View View the density of submissions with auto-generated hex-bins
Formhub: Aggregate and visualize results.
1. Build form 2. Collect data 3. Aggregate results
Jane Goodall Institute uses ODK for forest monitoring.
Kiva uses ODK to get borrower information.
Carter Center uses ODK for monitoring elections.
Carbon For Water collected over 1,000,000 forms with 4,000 ODK-powered
phones in 6 weeks.
AMPATH’s health workers have used ODK to counsel and test
over 775,000 people for HIV.
http://vimeo.com/38123850
Growing number of companies around the platform.
None
Collecting data accurately and quickly on paper is difficult. ODK
uses phones and tablets to digitize data collection. 1. Build form 2. Collect data 3. Aggregate results http://nafundi.com (@nafundi) http://opendatakit.org (@opendatakit) http://anokwa.com (@yanokwa)