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Mobile Technologies
and Global Health
Peter Lubell-Doughtie, Benedetta Simeonidis, Roger Wong
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Today
● Overview of mobile data collection
● Familiarize you with Formhub
● Real world examples
● Using devices for remote data collection
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Paper or Digital
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Digital isn’t always going to be right,
but it usually is and we should make
it easier and better.
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+ Intuitive
+ Resilient
- Piles of stuff
- Data entry
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+ Speed
+ Accuracy
+ Efficiency
- Upfront work
- Tech support
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formhub.org: mobile data collection made easy
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Formhub Origins
● Facility inventory in Nigeria
● 100+ question surveys
● Hundreds of thousands of health, education
and water facilities
● Support the Conditional Grants Scheme
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Formhub Features
● Works offline
● Long forms are easy to make
● Skip logic, constraints, error checks
● Works with Android, smartphone, SMS
(beta) or desktop computer
● GPS data placed in a map
● Can edit data after submitting
● Support for multiple languages
● Free and open source
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Not Formhub Features
● Ability to edit surveys during a collection
campaign
● Time series data: collecting information
about the same place or thing
● User or enumerator management
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Formhub.org account
Username: gh
Password: ghdemo
Formhub.org data entry URL
https://97hk9.enketo.formhub.
org/webform
Hands on exercise
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XLS rows encode fields
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XLSForms supports conditional logic and select options
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Choose the XLSForm and upload
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View Results by Question
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modi.mech.columbia.edu/dristhi/
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Nigeria MDG Information System
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Map Your World
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Map Your World
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modi.mech.columbia.edu www.onalabs.org
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Contact
Peter Lubell-Doughtie
[email protected]
Benedetta Simeonidis
[email protected]
Roger Wong
@rogerlwong, http://modi.mech.columbia.edu
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Resources
Useful References:
http://opendatakit.org/
https://formhub.org/tutorial/
https://formhub.org/syntax/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqpmMpkIXSQ (Formhub video tutorial)
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/formhub-users
Interesting tools:
http://medicmobile.org/matchmaker/index.html
http://modi.mech.columbia.edu/dristhi/
https://www.rapidsms.org/
http://www.commcarehq.org/home/
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Resources
Interesting Projects and Companies Using Mobile Technologies for Development:
http://ureport.ug/
http://www.texttochange.org/
http://rapidftr.com/
http://openbts.org/
http://www.texttochange.org/blog/why-open-gsm-network-and-future-open-telecommunications
http://littledevices.org/
More on Hardware and Mobile Technologies:
http://opendatakit.org/use/sensors/
http://homes.cs.washington.edu/~mayank/www.mayankgoel.com/my_site/ODK_Sensors.html
http://store.apple.com/us/product/H6012ZM/A/withings-smart-blood-pressure-monitor
http://www.ibgstar.us/
http://blog.arduino.cc/2013/08/12/diy-cellphone/
http://medicarduino.net/
http://home.groundlab.cc/gsmprinter.html
http://home.groundlab.cc/devicex.html