Mobile Technologies and Global Health

A lecture discussing mobile technologies and their intersection with global health.

Transcript

1. Mobile Technologies and Global Health Peter Lubell-Doughtie, Benedetta Simeonidis, Roger Wong
2. Today • Overview of mobile data collection • Familiarize you with Formhub • Real world examples • Using devices for remote data collection
3. Paper or Digital
4. Digital isn’t always going to be right, but it usually is and we should make it easier and better.
5. + Intuitive + Resilient - Piles of stuff - Data entry
6. + Speed + Accuracy + Efficiency - Upfront work - Tech support
7. formhub.org: mobile data collection made easy
9. Formhub Origins • Facility inventory in Nigeria • 100+ question surveys • Hundreds of thousands of health, education and water facilities • Support the Conditional Grants Scheme
15. 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
16. 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
17. Formhub.org account Username: gh Password: ghdemo Formhub.org data entry URL https://97hk9.enketo.formhub. org/webform Hands on exercise
18. XLS rows encode fields
19. XLSForms supports conditional logic and select options
20. Choose the XLSForm and upload
21. View Results by Question
22. modi.mech.columbia.edu/dristhi/
34. Nigeria MDG Information System
35. Map Your World
36. Map Your World
37. modi.mech.columbia.edu www.onalabs.org
38. Contact Peter Lubell-Doughtie peter@ona.io Benedetta Simeonidis benedetta.piantella@nyu.edu Roger Wong @rogerlwong, http://modi.mech.columbia.edu
39. 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/
40. 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