Mobile Data Collection Inventory

Mobile Data Collection Projects InventoryCompiled by MobileActive.org (April/May 2010)

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Basic Project InformationProject Name Organization Country or RegionAgriculture Mobile Agiculture Mobile Sudan / KhartoumKickStart (Gates Funded) Synovate Kenya & TanzaniaAGRA (Gates Funded) Synovate IITA (Gates Funded) Synovate TanzaniaIITA (Gates Funded) Synovate TanzaniaAATF (Gates Funded) Synovate EADD (Gates Funded) Synovate Kenya & Uganda KickStart (Gates Funded) Synovate Kenya &TanzaniaAGRA (Gates Funded) SynovateAATF (Gates Funded) SynovateEADD (Gates Funded) Synovate Kenya & Uganda Farm Africa Synovate Kenya CFC-Stanbic Synovate Kenya Synovate Pan Africa Synovate Kenya Nation Group Synovate Kenya

EgyptNicaragua

East Africa (Sudan)Building Bridges Peace Campaign KenyaJordan Elections 2010 Jordan

Middle East (Iraq)Synovate Uganda

AppLab Grameen Foundation UgandaTigo Synovate TanzaniaZain Synovate TanzaniaUTL Synovate Uganda

Ghana,Ashanti RegionUNICEF Iraq Iraq

CU@SCHOOLUgandaMontenegroIndonesiaMontenegroAlbania

Bahrain Transparency Society BahrainNational Election Watch - NEW Sierra Leone

ZimbabweGhanaLebanon

SHAMS - coalition of Iraqi NGOS Iraq - KurdistanCivic Network OPORA Ukraine

IraqGeorgiaNigeria

Disclaimer: This inventory is by no means exhaustive and is a result of voluntary submissions by project coordinators after a public call for projects, and outreach/research by the MobileActive.org staff. We look forward to adding to and expanding the list with your input.

Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda

Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda

Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda Kenya, Tanzania & Uganda

2010 Nonpartisan citizen domestic election monitoring project - National Democratic Institute (NDI) Program

2011 Nonpartisan citizen domestic election monitoring project - National Democratic Institute (NDI) ProgramGaza Youth SMS Info and Polling Service

Souktel (implementing partner: MercyCorps)

Middle East (Palestine)Darfur/Southern Sudan Community

News and Feedback ServiceSouktel (implementing partner: EDC Inc.)Butterfly Works, Media Focus on AfricaHayat Center for Civil Society Development and NDI Iraqi Women Peace-Builders SMS

Info ServiceSouktel (implementing partner: MercyCorps)Umeme (power generating

company)

Using Mobile Phones to collect Education Management Information System (EMIS) School-based data

Mobiletools, University of Jyvaskyla,FinlandChildren's Poll and Speak Out

Campaign

SNV Uganda in partnership with Makerere University CIT, Ministry of Education, Mbale and Kiboga Districts, Flora Famiy Foundation

Mbale and Kiboga districts


Uganda Democratic Monitoring Group - DemGroup

Montenegro Independence Referendum: 2006 Nonpartisan citizen domestic election monitoring project - National Democratic

Center for Democratic Transition - CDT

Indonesia Legislative Elections: 2004 Nonpartisan citizen domestic election monitoring project - National Democratic Institute (NDI)

Montenegro General Elections: 2006 Nonpartisan citizen domestic election monitoring project - National Democratic Institute (NDI)

Center for Democratic Transition - CDT

Albania Local Government Elections: 2007 Nonpartisan citizen domestic election monitoring project - National Democratic

Coalition of seven local nongovernmental organizations

Bahrain Parliamentary Elections: 2006 Nonpartisan citizen domestic election monitoring project - National Democratic Institute (NDI)

Sierra Leone Presidential Elections: 2007 Nonpartisan citizen domestic election monitoring project - National Democratic Institute (NDI)


Zimbabwe Election Support Network - ZESN


Coalition of Domestic Election Observers - CODEO


Lebanese Association for Democratic Elections - LADE

2009 Nonpartisan citizen domestic election monitoring project - National Democratic Institute (NDI) Programs


2010 Nonpartisan citizen domestic election monitoring project - National Democratic Institute (NDI) Programs

SHAMS - coalition of 113 NGOS in Iraq



Consortium of Nigerian civic organizations

Person Finder Mobile Haiti Ushahidi Haiti Ushahidi, Tufts University Haiti

First Aid Corps GlobalVetaid ZanzibarWater Quality Reporter S. Africa

Nova Institute South AfricaWhat's Invasive USA and globalProject BudBurst USA and globalProject Surya India

World Food Program (WFP) many countriesQuestionBox Project is live in India QuestionBox ChildCount+ Millennium Villages Project

South AfricaCommCare D-tree and Dimagi Mostly Tanzania

UNICEFDr SMS Doctor SMS India, Kerala

Geochat at Mukdahan InSTEDD Thailand

UgandaMoTeCHMothusimpilo: Outreach North WestNutrional Surveillance UNICEF/Malawi MOH MalawiOne Voice: OutreachProject MasihambisaneProject Mwana UNICEF

Ministry of Health/ One UN RwandamUbuzima Rwanda

TanzaniaTeleSalud TeleSalud GuatamalaText to Change sms quizzes Text to Change Uganda, KenyaThe USAID | DELIVER PROJECT John Snow, Inc. USA and globalTracnet Voxiva Rwanda

TAC South AfricaUSAID-AMPATHVillageReach Mozambique

South AfricaD-Tree Tanzania

KenyaSOHITCOM Jordan

Medical Research CouncilAceh Besar, Indonesia

iNSCALE Malaria Consortium RapidSMS UNICEF Awasa, Ethiopiaredsalvavidas redsalvavidas (lifesaversnetwork) Colombia

South AfricaHuman Rights Center UC BerkeleyViolence against Children Plan West Africa

Rede Jovem Rede Jovem/Wikimapa BrazilMap Kibera GroundTruth Kibera, Nairobi, Kenya

"Unfortunately, while we produced a working application for Android phones, we were not successful in establishing

Automated External Defibrillator (AED) Geotagging Project Univ. of Cape Town & U. of

Bristol (and Gates Foundation funding)

Highveld Air Quality Project, "Introduction of an alternative ignition technique in Emfuleni Municipality" and "Introduction of

Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, and University Corporation for

Partners: UC San Diego, The Energy Research Institute, UC Los Angeles, Lorax Analytics, Sri Ramachandra University World Food Programme - Mobile

data collection using PDA and SMS OpenMind (with Appfrica, Grameen Foundation's AppLab)OpenMind (with Appfrica, Grameen Foundation's AppLab)

Piloted in Uganda - currently inactiveAfrica - Kenya (to be followed by 9 other countries)

CMT: Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) Session Reports

Community Media Trust (CMT), JHHESA

Community Vulnerability Surveillance Program

Uganda, Pader and Amuru DistrictseMOCHA (electronic Mobile Open-

Source Comprehensive Health Application)

Center for Clinical Global Health Education (CCGHE) at Johns Hopkins University

Uganda, Congo, India, Nepal

Good Start III: Home-based HIV Counselling and Testing

Medical Research Council/University of Western Cape School of Public Health in collaboration with the Sisonke

Sisonke District, South AfricaMinistry of Health - Malaria

Monitoring Platform UgandaMOH Uganda, FIND Diagnostics, Earth InstituteGrameen Foundation, Columbia University

Initial pilot in Ghana. Other deployments to follow in late 2010/2011

Mothusimpilo, Johns Hopkins Health and Education South Africa (JHHESA)One Voice, Johns Hopkins Health and Education South Africa (JHHESA)

Durban, Cape Town and Eastern CapeHuman Sciences Research

CouncilSweetwaters, South Africa

Zambia (Province: Luapula - Districts: Mansa, Kwamba, Nchilenge) -- Malawi RapidSMS for Maternal and Child

Health Rwandan Ministry of Health & Phones for Health SMS for Life/Roll Back

Malaria/Novartis

Public-private partnership involving the Roll Back Malaria Partnership, Novartis, Vodafone, IBM and the Tanzanian Ministry

Treatment Action Campaign (TAC): Treatment Literacy Sessions

USAID The Home-based Counseling and Testing project (HCT) is run by a multi-disciplinary team led by Dr.

Kenya - A large geographic region centered on AMPATH's location in

Wharton School of Business at UPenn

FIND (Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics)

FIND (Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics)

Gulu and Kabale Districts, Uganda

Intergrated support supervision using cellphone

Ministry of Public Health & Sanitation

Good Start III ("Saving Newborn Lives")

KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaAceh Besar Midwives with Mobiles

(pilot) Project

Implementing agency: World Vision (funded by UNICEF and UNFPA) Life Line: Interpersonal Individual

Outreach Form

LifeLine, Johns Hopkins Health and Education South Africa (JHHESA)

Kimberley and GautengUganda and Mozambique

Community Media Trust (CMT): HIV and AIDS Treatment Literacy Programme

Community Media Trust, Johns Hopkins Health and Education South Africa (JHHESA) Central African

RepublicBenin, Togo, future othersKoBo - Initiative for Vulnerable

PopulationsHuman Rights Center, University of California Berkeley

Global - complex emergencies / Central African Republic, Northern Uganda,

NiJeL maps NiJeLDynamic mappingRashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana World Bank/Govt of India India

Sproxil, Inc NigeriaCyberTracker South AfricaUNDP/IOM village assessments CRMA - UNDP with IOM SudanUwazi/Twaweza TwawezaUwazi/Twaweza TwawezaUwazi/Twaweza TwawezaPalestine Job Information Service

ZimbabweMC Labs Kenya

Lumana Ghana

CartaGen - MIT Center for Civic Media

NAFDAC Mobile Authentication Service (MAS)

Mwanza, Tanzania - East AfricaDar es Salaam, Tanzania - East Africa

Souktel (implementing partner: King Abdullah Foundation for Development - Jordan, Synergos Foundation - USA)

Middle East (Palestine)SomaliYouth Job and Training Info

ServiceSouktel (implementing partner: EDC Inc.)

East Africa (Somaliland)Emergency Relief and

Rehabilitation in ZimbabweZimbabwe AHEAD/Oxfam Great BritainKenya Community Development

Fund program monitoringBuilding a Health Boyle Heights Participatory Sensing Project

Community Engagement Committee with technical support from CENS at UCLA and funding from The California

The neighborhood (and surrounding areas) of Boyle Heights, east of

Mobile Data Collection Projects InventoryCompiled by MobileActive.org (April/May 2010)


For inquiries, to request contact information about a listed project, or to submit a project to the inventory, contact: Anoush[at]mobileactive.org

OverviewSite Brief Description www.ttea.gov.sdwww.synovate.com

www.synovate.com

[email protected] www.souktel.org

www.souktel.org

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Disclaimer: This inventory is by no means exhaustive and is a result of voluntary submissions by project coordinators after a public call for projects, and outreach/research by the MobileActive.org staff. We look forward to adding

This program utilized SMS to disseminated price and production information to the farmer in rural area, The farmers receive the information in short massage on their mobile phone after subscribing in services by sending latter to the cod services

KickStart produces manual water pumps used for irrigation and have a database of over 38,0000 pump users mobile phone numbers in Kenya and Tanzania. A random sample of 1,000 was achieved in each of the 2 countries in April 2010. A

AGRA is expanding and strengthening networks of agro dealers or small retailers so as to boost the expertise available to small scale farmers in the breadbasket areas of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. These agro dealer will advice farmers on wise and

As part of DEWN (Digital Early Warning Network) farmers from 10 districts in the Lake Zone region of Tanzania were trained to recognize Cassava Mosaic Disease and Cassava Brown Streak Disease. A data base of 300 farmers’ phone numbers has been Similar to the voice surveys (above). Text surveys through SMS will be sent every month to approximately 60 farmers groups. Each survey will have 1 or 2 questions.

AATF is running a project in the maize growing areas of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to enable smallholder farmers access striga management maize (IR maize). Since farmers’ phone numbers were not readily available, Synovate collected primary

The EADD project seeks to boost the yields and incomes of small dairy farmers through integrated intervention in dairy production, market access and knowledge application. They have provided a list of farmers’ mobile numbers and every month

Similar to the voice surveys. Text surveys through SMS and USSD will be sent out on a monthly basis to approximately 200 farmers or dealers per country. Each survey will have 1 or 2 questions.Similar to the voice surveys. Text surveys through SMS and USSD will be sent out every 2 months to approximately 200 farmers per country. Each survey will have 1 or 2 questions.Similar to the voice surveys. Text surveys through SMS and USSD will be sent out every 2 months to approximately 200 farmers per country. Each survey will have 1 or 2 questions.Similar to the voice surveys. Text surveys through SMS and USSD will be sent out on a monthly basis to approximately 200 farmers per country. Each survey will have 1 or 2 questions.

2,054 interviews ; study targeted livestock farmers and vets and sought to understand the usage of vet services (cost of animal medication, frequency of purchase, who provides vet services, most prevalent diseases, etc). A structured 30 minutes

This was a customer satisfaction study for one of the local banks. Lists of customers (corporate and retail) were provided by the bank. A 20 minutes telephonic questionnaire was administered over the phone.

2000 interviews per quarter with a national sample; study targets the general population and is an opinion poll that rates presidential and government performance against predetermined measures using a structured 10 minutes questionnaire

The study sought to gauge publics' opinion about current political issues and the results were published in the Sunday Nation newspaper. A structured 8 minutes telephonic questionnaire translated into Kiswahili was used.

Trained citizen election monitors provide election day reports via SMS to a central system that is then used to analyze and visualize aggregate election monitoring information so that groups can assess the quality of the electoral process.

Trained citizen election monitors provide election day reports via SMS to a central system that is then used to analyze and visualize aggregate election monitoring information so that groups can assess the quality of the electoral process.Youth-managed polling of 1,100 young Gazans on democracy/governance topics and education/training needs.

Multi-use service: 1) Gathering of community feedback on radio programs broadcast by implementing partner; 2) Verification of radio transmission quality in local communities; 3) field reporting of local news events

http://buildingbridges.co.ke

The aim of Building Bridges is to raise awareness and reward citizens involved in peacemaking and to encourage Kenyans to start new peace building initiatives.Registered initiatives will be visible on the ushahidi map, the integration of ushahidi into a www.jordanelection.

com

Survey to measure the extent of youth participation in the coming House of Representatives elections & effort to study youth political attitudes and challenges to youth political participation.Data collection from female community leaders on training/resource needs--to facilitate enhanced service delivery by implementing partner Mercy Corps

The study is similar to the UTL one above , it was customer satisfaction surveys that run on a quarterly basis with a sample of 400 Umeme customers. Numbers were provided by the client and a 20 minutes questionnaire was administered over the phone .

http://www.grameenfoundation.applab.org/section/index

ODK Collect has been used by AppLab since November 2008 by shared phone operators (SPO) in rural Uganda. The SPOs survey their customers about available phone-based services and the results are used to guide the development of services

A customer satisfaction survey for Tigo a leading mobile provider company in Tanzania. Tigo provided a different list of telephone numbers every month from which 1,000 were randomly picked for telephonic interviews every month for 12 months. A 10 minutes

This is similar to the Tigo study the only differences being it was done one-off with a sample of 2,000. Zain provided a list of approximately 10,000 mobile numbers from which random numbers were selected for CATI and a 10 minutes structured

This was a customer satisfaction survey for UTL that ran across 4 waves with 200 interviews carried out in each wave. Client provided a list of names and interviews were made telephonically using a 20 minutes questionnaire.www.movel.fi/

getdemo

The piloting covered 35 head teachers from two districts in the Ashanti Region of Ghana. All the 21 educational statisticians from the region were also covered. They demonstrated how mobiles could be used to gather faster, easier, simple, cost

in development (target launch November 2010)

"In line with article 12 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) which states “State Parties shall assure to the child who is capable of forming his or her own views the right to express those views freely in all matters affecting the child…and for this http://

www.snvworld.org/

CU@SCHOOL collects weekly data on pupil and teacher attendance from 100 schools using mobile phones. Data is visualized at District Education Office who can take appropriate action (T&P absenteeism BIG problem in Ug!). Selected

Citizen and trained long term observer reporting during the pre-election period using basic SMS reports. Trained citizen election monitors provide election day reports via SMS to a central system that is then used to analyze and visualize aggregate election http://

www.cdtmn.org

Trained citizen election monitors provide election day reports via SMS to a central system that is then used to analyze and visualize aggregate election monitoring information so that groups can assess the quality of the electoral process. In this case

Trained citizen election monitors sent "ready to report" SMS messages to a central call center database system where callback requests were queued and phone operators called the observers back for verbal reports.http://

www.cdtmn.org







www.observe.ladeleb.org/ & http://www.lade.org.lb


Trained citizen election monitors provide election day reports via SMS to a central system that is then used to analyze and visualize aggregate election monitoring information so that groups can assess the quality of the electoral process.http://

www.opora.org.ua/


http://www.sun-network.org/index.php?l=3



Citizen and trained long term observer reporting during the pre-election period using basic SMS reports. Trained citizen election monitors provide election day reports via SMS to a central system that is then used to analyze and visualize aggregate election

www.dimagi.com Phone-based application to support community-health workers

geochat.instedd.org

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www.hsrc.ac.za

www.tulasalud.org

www.deliver.jsi.com

www.tac.org.za

www.lifeline.org.za

www.cmt.org.za

http://person-finder-mobile.appspot.com/

Person Finder Mobile was conceived in the first week after the Jan 2010 Haiti earthquake to support the efforts of the main Person Finder site at http://haiticrisis.appspot.com. Intent was to produce an "offline" version of Person Finder that volunteers on http://

haiti.ushahidi.com/www.firstaidcorps.org

To get smartphone users to geotag AEDs throughout the world (To view map for the United States alone, go to http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=106069377598790155454.00047

http://www.vetaid.org/home.asp

Vetaid supports animal health projects in Africa by training a large number of Community Animal Health Workers or "barefoot vets". A recent development within the project has been the adoption of mobile telephony as a way of linking the community workers with

http://spatialdatamanagement.uct.ac.za/water-quality-

Uses a mobile application or SMS to allow field workers to cheaply and effectively transfer data about water quality to a centralized database, while receiving feedback about how to handle local water problems.http://

www.nova.org.za/

The Highveld Air Quality project aims to reduce ambient air pollution and GHG emissions by introducing an alternative ignition technique to households who use coal for domestic energy. The project activity is the introduction of an alternative ignition

http://whatsinvasive.com and http://participatoryse

Concerned citizens can download a mobile phone app for the iPhone and Android that makes it easy to help locate invasive weeds while out on a hike, bike ride, or horseback ride. This project will help Park Rangers identify where weeds need to be

http://budburst.org and http://participatorysensing.org

Project BudBurst is a national field campaign for citizen scientists designed to engage the public in the collection of important climate change data based on the timing of leafing and flowering of trees and flowers. We are collaborating to allow data collection http://

projectsurya.org

Project Surya will will adopt two rural areas in India with about 10,000 households in each and introduce more energy efficient cooking technologies to drastically reduce black carbon emissions in the study area. The evaluation team will examine the impact on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AJ6XtToNeo

WFP VAM uses PDAs and mobile phones to collect data on a variety of themes, mainly regarding food security monitoring and WFP programme monitoring

http://www.questionbox.org/

Question Box is Open Mind's initiative that helps people find answers to everyday questions like health, agriculture, business, education and entertainment. It gives easy access to information in areas with illiteracy, language and technical barriers.

http://www.questionbox.org/http://www.childcount.org

ChildCount+ aims to empower communities to improve child survival and maternal health. ChildCount+ uses SMS text messages to facilitate and coordinate the activities of community based health care providers, usually community health care

http://www.jhhesa.org.za/newsletter/Using_social_mobili

CMT holds prevention of mother to child HIV transmission literacy sessions in districts across South Africa. The facilitators use low-cost mobile phones to capture data on each session they conduct. CMT then has access to real-time data for monitoring

www.drsms.kerala.gov.in

The State of Kerala is recognised the world over for its notable achievements in the field of health. With low per capita incomes, Kerala has managed to achieve health indicators that are par with advanced countries of the country. Kerala’s mortality indicators

http://www.emocha.org

eMOCHA is a free open-source application, developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education. eMOCHA is designed to assist health programs in developing countries improve provider communication and education, as well

Mukdahan Province in Thailand is piloting a disease reporting system through SMS. They are already using Geochat as a communication channel. Through the same channel they are reporting diseases cases in a semi-structured way which is then

This is a a community randomized controlled trial to compare door-to-door home-based HIV counselling and testing (HBVCT) versus facility-based VCT. As part of that trial, we are implementing a HBVCT intervention, whereby lay counsellors in 8

System to allow clinics send in their weekly disease and malaria data via a multi-SMS report. This involves replacing the MOH form with a "SMS-able" paper version. Web dashboard provides overview of disease burden, including specific malaria treatment

http://www.grameenfoundation.applab.org/section/ghana-

Grameen Foundation has launched an initiative to determine how best to use mobile phones to increase the quantity and quality of antenatal and neonatal care in rural Ghana. Funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Mobile Technology http://jhhesa.org/

partners/index.html

Mothusimpilo use Peer Educators, Community facilitators and trained lay counsellors to mobilize young people that participate in their youth activities around messages relating to HIV prevention. They use EMIT to capture data on their outreach sessions in the

http://mobileactive.org/case-studies/nutritional-

Monitoring nutritional status of childrenwww.onevoice.org.za

One Voice uses innovative and creative ways of actively involving young people in HIV and AIDS prevention. They use EMIT to collect data on their outreach sessions, monitoring what topics were covered in each session, how many people were in

Project Masihambisane is a randomized primary health clinic based trial. The purpose of the trial is to test the effectiveness of an HIV+ mentor mother program or intervention. The intervention aims to provide clinic based support to HIV positive mothers and

http://projectmwana.posterous.com/

Project Mwana is UNICEF Innovation project that is working with the Zambian Ministry of Health, UNICEF Zambia, the Malawi Ministry of Health, UNICEF Malawi and many implementing and technical partners to find appropriate, scalable and impactful

The RapidSMS project allows Community Health Workers, to use SMS in tracking the maternal and neonatal life cycle. The system allows all critical points in the cycle to be documented and sent via SMS to a central database. Automated feedback messages

http://mubuzima.gov.rw/mUbuzima/core/modules/

The Government of Rwanda has established a Community Health Information System (CHIS) to support the national community health worker program that allows Community health workers to report basic data about their program, such as the

http://www.rollbackmalaria.org/docs/SMSsummaryRepor

The SMS for Life initiative is a new 'public-private' project that harnesses everyday technology to eliminate stock-outs and improve access to essential medicines in sub-Saharan Africa.Community Healthcare workers in rural Guatemala, using EpiSurveyor to capture information about patient consultationswww.texttochange.c

om

In cooperation with NGO's and companies Text to Change has conducted over 10 text message based quizzes in Uganda and Kenya. The goal of these health awareness quizzes are to collect data on knowledge, age, gender, income level and location

The project regularly uses mobile phones enabled with EpiSurveyor to gather patient information and data concerning stock levels of essential medicines and other commodities from rural health facilities in Ghana, Tanzania and Zambia.www.voxiva.com/

rwanda.asp

Tracnet is designed to collect, store, retrieve and disseminate critical program, drug and patient information related to HIV/AIDS care and treatment

The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) advocates for increased access to treatment, care and support services for people living with HIV and campaigns to reduce new HIV infections. With more than 16,000 members, 267 branches and 72 full time staff

http://www.medicine.iupui.edu/kenya/index.html

AMPATH is the largest HIV treatment program in sub-Saharan Africa and is Kenya's most comprehensive initiative to combat HIV. Over the next two years, ODK Collect will be used in a home-based testing and counseling program where 300 phones http://

villagereach.org/

VillageReach develops logistics and management support software applications to strengthen health centers and other healthcare providers for implementation in remote, underserved communities in low-income countries. "vrMIS3" is a cloud-based

A team from UPenn's Wharton School of Business is using ODK Collect in a three year survey research project in South Africa to study health and entrepreneurship in townships around Tshwane (Pretoria).http://www.d-

tree.org/

D-Tree is putting the Integrated Management of Childhood Illness (IMCI) onto mobile devices to aid clinicians. At the core of IMCI is a set of medical algorithms designed to guide health workers through the classification and treatment of children under five

http://www.finddiagnostics.org/

Uganda is quickly becoming the focal point for UNICEF Innovations. RapidSMS projects covering a wide range of areas are being scoped, including education, child protection, birth registration and malnutrition monitoring, many of which will be

Beta testers of EpiSurveyor software 2005. Officers from WHO and Ministry of Health Collecting data on an Intergrated Manner - i.e. 13 Divisions giving core indicators to be monitored by the WHO/National/Provincial and District teamswww.sohitcom.org.j

o Web-based application (web site + mobile) to enhance health services provided to rural communities in Jordan

Focuses on interventions for the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV and strategies to improve neonatal survival. Project involves over 40 members of staff and, over the course of its 3 year term, several thousand participants.

Midwives utilize cell phones to transmit health statistics to a central database, contact coordinators and peers for health advice and information, and communicate with doctors and patients. Life Line uses EMIT to monitor and evaluate their interpersonal individual HIV/AIDS outreach sessions. This project is sponsored by JHHESA.

www.malariaconsortium.org

Overall the project aims to increase coverage of integrated community case management (iCCM) in two countries (Uganda and Mozambique) with CBAs that perform optimally (i.e. performance) and who remain functional over longer periods of

In October 2008, Ethiopia experienced crippling droughts. Faced with the possibility of famine, UNICEF Ethiopia launched a massive food distribution program to supply the high-protein food Plumpy’nut to under-nourished children at more than 1,800

www.redsalvavidas.org; http://twitter.com/redsalvavidas

RED SALVAVIDAS is a mobile based platform for prevention, response and coordination after disasters

The Community Media Trust uses EMIT to capture information on their HIV and AIDS treatment literacy sessions in clinics, at schools and in other community initiatives across South Africa. They also used EMIT to capture data on training sessions for http://

hrc.berkeley.edu/

The Human Rights Center investigates war crimes and other serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. Their empirical studies recommend policy measures to hold perpetrators accountable, protect vulnerable populations, and

test site: www.vacbenin.ushahidi.com and www.vacbenin.usha

Pilot project in the works: Engages children and communities in reporting cases of violence against children; links reporting into local authority response and information collection and visualization; maps cases/situation in order to later advocate for

http://hrc.berkeley.edu/berkeley_tulane.html,

The Initative was established to conduct research in countries experiencing serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law. KoBo, the mobile data collection component, was designed to support the Initiative.

http://www.redejovem.org.br/

With the help of five young "wiki-reporters" and GPS-equipped mobile phones, the nonprofit is building a map of five Brazilian favelas: Complexo do Alemão, Cidade de Deus, Morro do Pavão-Pavãozinho, Morro Santa Marta and Complexo da Maré. By

http://groundtruth.media.mit.edu/

OpenStreetMap of changing topographic structures (roads, checkpoints, barriers, and settlements) and human narratives in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

http://cartagen.org/

http://sproxil.com

Pending/To begin June 2010Pending/To be started June 2010Pending/To be started October/December 2010

www.mclabs.it

http://nijel.org/index.html

NiJeL uses high performance mapping to identify and mitigate social, economic, and environmental problems in poor communities now so they don't become humanitarian disasters later.

http://civic.mit.edu/projects/c4fcm/cartagenhttp://www.rsby.in/how_works.html

Recently implemented health insurance for the base of the pyramid (those who fall below the national poverty line) using SMART cards to collect registration information on BoP migrant workers and their families. On receipt of the smart card and

SMS-based service to allow consumers to determine if medication is genuine or fake. The consumer sends a free SMS and the response contains opportunities for them to provide more information on their purchase through a call center.

http://www.cybertracker.co.za/

CyberTracker was first developed in 1997 as a way to allow non-literate animal trackers to communicate their environmental observations. It has since evolved to become a powerful general purpose data capture and visualization system

CRMA has supported the IOM Village Assessments/Rural Profiling in Sudan, both South and North, piloting a new mobile mapping technology in collaboration with Nokia. Data gathered covers a wide range of aspects including, basic services and http://

www.twaweza.org/http://www.twaweza.org/http://www.twaweza.org/

www.souktel.org; also see: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/s

Data gathering on employment needs; follow-up provision of targeted job informatoin

http://www.edc.org/newsroom/articles/when_text_messag

Dual use service: 1) Data collection on training program attendance, completion, dropout; 2) Data gathering on employment needs; follow-up provision of targeted job informatoinwww.africaahead.co

m

Africa AHEAD is an associated organization that specializes in health and hygiene promotion in rural and urban areas throughout Africa through the Community Health Club Approach. Africa AHEAD offers expertise in training government, non-government

Project to allow KCDF (Kenya Community Development Fund) to monitor their programs in the field. The programs cover different sectors i.e. Education,Early Childhood Development,Food Security,Youth Empowerment,Girl Child, Arts & Culture.

Survey answers, digital photographs, and GPS coordinates are collected. The study harnesses mobile phones with built-in cameras and location technologies to hear assessments of a range of health, safety, and living condition issues during the http://

www.lumana.org/

Lumana sees microcredit as an organizing tool for development. They provide small loans in order to create a baseline of financial security and cooperative organization in the communities where they operate. Using ODK, Lumana seeks to build off their current


Platform UsedAgriculture SMS Official #s - (price & product information)Agriculture Custom Intermediary - interviewerAgriculture Custom Intermediary - interviewerAgriculture Custom Intermediary - interviewerAgriculture Targeted public (eventually)Agriculture Custom Intermediary - interviewerAgriculture Custom Intermediary - interviewerAgriculture Targeted public (eventually)Agriculture Targeted public (eventually)Agriculture Targeted public (eventually)Agriculture Targeted public (eventually)Agriculture Intermediary - interviewerBanking services Customer service surveyCivic Intermediary - interviewerCivic Intermediary - interviewerCivic N/ACivic N/ACivic Targeted public

Targeted public (field monitors and beneficiaries)ushahidi Crowdsourced (voluntary participation)

Civic Participation ??? Intermediary - field activists/volunteers

Customer Service Survey - customer service ODK Targeted Public (opinion/survey)

Survey - customer serviceSurvey - customer service Survey - customer service

Education Officials (teachers)

Official #s (teachers reporting attendance)Election Monitoring Intermediary - election monitorsElection Monitoring Intermediary - election monitorsElection Monitoring Intermediary - election monitorsElection Monitoring Intermediary - election monitorsElection Monitoring Intermediary - election monitorsElection Monitoring Intermediary - election monitorsElection Monitoring Intermediary - election monitorsElection Monitoring Intermediary - election monitorsElection Monitoring Intermediary - election monitorsElection Monitoring Intermediary - election monitorsElection Monitoring Intermediary - election monitorsElection Monitoring Intermediary - election monitorsElection Monitoring Intermediary - election monitorsElection Monitoring Intermediary - election monitorsElection Monitoring Intermediary - election monitors

Disclaimer: This inventory is by no means exhaustive and is a result of voluntary submissions by project coordinators after a public call for projects, and outreach/research by the MobileActive.org staff. We look forward to adding

Data Type/Category

Data Source (who is collecting or reporting the information)

Drupal/Managing News, the rest TBD

Souktel Aidlink - SMS Survey Application: Web and SMS-based survey creation and

Civic - democracy/governance


Civic - Peace and Conflict, awareness creation, empowermentCivic Participation - Education, Democracy/Governance


Targeted public (community leaders/beneficiaries)

Customer Service SurveysCustomer Service SurveysCustomer Service SurveysCustomer Service Surveys

All mobile phones with support for J2ME, GPRS and colour screenEducation,

Children's rights Targeted public (specific outreach for particpantsthrough schools and NGOs)Education, School

attendance

OpenXdata (www.openxdata.org, developed by Makerere University

Drupal/Managing News, SlingShot SMS module, local short code, USB cell

Microsoft Access, IIS w/ custom ASP scripts, SMS Reception software Microsoft Access, IIS w/ custom ASP scripts, SMS Reception software

Microsoft Access, IIS w/ custom ASP scripts, SMS Reception software





Custom IIS web application, SMS Reception Center?

Drupal/Managing News, the rest TBD

Emergency N/A Ushahidi Crowdsourced/Citizen Reports

Emergency, MedicalODK Intermediary - Health workers

Environmental Mobile Researcher Intermediary - surveyorsEnvironmental Crowdsourced/Citizen Reports

Crowdsourced/Citizen ReportsBrew Phones Targeted public - trained community members

General/All Crowdsource/Citizen Reports (voluntary)General/All Crowdsource/Citizen Reports (voluntary)Health RapidSMS Intermediary - CHWsHealth Intermediary - CMT facilitatorsHealth built on JavaROSA Intermediary - CHWsHealth rapidSMS Intermediary - VHTsHealth SMS / PHPHealth Intermediaries - CHWsHealth Geochat / SeenTags Intermediary - CHWsHealth Intermediary - CounselorsHealth RapidSMSHealth Intermediary - CHWsHealth Staff evaluations Health RapidSMS Intermediary - CHWHealth Staff evaluationsHealth Intermediary - researchers/interviewersHealth Intermediaries - CHWsHealth RapidSMS Intermediary - CHWsHealth Voxiva - IVR? Intermediary - CHWsHealth SMS Official - #s about medicine stock levelsHealth EpiSurveyor Intermediary - CHWsHealth Targeted public & IntermediariesHealth EpiSurveyor Intermediary - health professionals Health Voxiva Intermediary - CHWsHealth staff evaluationHealth ODK Intermediary - health workersHealth ODK Staff evaluation (supply chain) Health ODK N/AHealth N/AHealth rapidSMS Intermediaries - CHWsHealth Health N/A

Intermediary - CHWsIntermediary - MidwivesStaff evaluations Intermediary - CHWs

Health and Supply RapidSMS N/AN/AIntermediary - CHWs

Human Rights ODK Intermediary - surveyors/interviewersHuman Rights

Intermediary - trained interviewersMapping Targeted public Mapping Open street Map Targeted public - NGOs, informed citizens

Person Finder Mobile is built on Open Data Kit (ODK), which in turn is built upon Emergency -

Natural DisasteriPhone "beextra", Droid "ShowNearby AED"

Crowdsourced/Citizen Reports (voluntary participation)Environment -

Farming/AnimalsEnvironment - Water Quality

Official - field staff submiting results from water test

RapidSMS and customEnvironmental,

Educational.RapidSMS and customEnvironmental,

HealthFood Security, Markets, monitoring

WFP PDASurvey, FrontlineSMS

Official #s - data collected by WFP staff or govt/UN partners

Question boxes, using Open Question software

EMIT – Cell-Life's mobile data collection software.

Official - information about medical facilities, locationseMOCHA running on

Android OSMobile Researcher + custom-developed web management console Official #s (clinics reporting drug stocks levels,

etc.)

OpenSource application built on top of OpenMRS. Leverages EMIT – Cell-Life's mobile data collection software.EMIT – Cell-Life's mobile data collection software.

Mobile Researcher + Internally developed web application for monitoring and any phone, RapidSMS

Text to Change (End of this year, Text to Change will start to work with an changed


Web based Episurveyor

Intermediary - public health officials ("Official data")

Java based application and SMS messages

Health - Maternal Newborn and Child Health

Mobile Researcher + custom-developed web management consoleHealth - prenatal

and maternity Health - service delivery/improvement


Health - service delivery/quality control

Java enabled Nokia phones with GPRS to submit dataHealth, crisis, life,

social impact, disasters

Episurveyor and customHealth/Staff

Evaluation

EMIT – Cell-Life's mobile data collection software. http://www.emitmobil

FrontlineSMS, Ushahidi

Crowdsource/Citizen Reports (voluntary participation)

Human Rights, International Development, Peace and Conflict

ODK / KoBo on Android Phones

Mapping N/AMisc. N/AMisc. SMART cardsMisc. Citizen reports (consumers)

ODK N/ANokia Data Gathering Intermediary - numerators

Crowdsourced/Citizen reportsN/A Targeted publicN/A Targeted public

Targeted public (beneficiaries) Targeted public (beneficiaries)

Mobile Researcher Targeted public (registered members) rapidSMS Intermediary - field staff

Targeted public (survey participants)ODK Intermediary

An electronic list of eligible BPL households is provided to the insurer using a pre-specified data format. An enrollment schedule for each village, along with dates, is prepared by the insurance

In-house developed cloud-based computing service. Needs to cater for N/A (data collection

tool)

Quality of Life/Community Conditions - Basic Services,

Quality of life/Community Conditions - (water access)

Quality of Life/Community Conditions - all ("baseline

Quality of Life/Community Conditions - all ("baseline

Quality of Life/Community Conditions - Education,

1) Souktel Aidlink - SMS Survey Application: Web and SMS-based survey

Quality of Life/Community Conditions - Education,

1) Souktel Aidlink - SMS Survey Application: Web and SMS-based survey

Quality of Life/Community Conditions - Household surveys,

Quality of Life/Community Conditions - impact of projects on

Quality of Life/Community Conditions - living conditions, health,

Quality of Life/Community Conditions - Needs Assessment:

Content of data General size Price and production information 500s

Cassava Disease recognition 100-1,000 (monthly) (300 every month for 7 waves) 2,100 Cassava Disease recognition 100-1,000 (monthly) (I country 60 per month X 8 waves) 480Awareness and use of IR maize Dairy management/production

100-1,000 (monthly)

Awareness and use of IR maize Dairy management/production 100-1,000 (monthly)

100-1,000Customer satisfaction Under 100 410 retail customers and 85 businesses.

2000 respondents per wave 100-1,000 839 interviews

TBD N/ATBD N/A

100-1,000 (monthly)100-1,000 200 pilot users as of Apr. 2010100-1,0001,000-10,000100-1,000

customer satisfaction 1,000-10,000 1,600 (400 per quarter)N/A

customer satisfaction customer satisfaction 1,000-10,000 2,000 interviewscustomer satisfaction 100-1,000 1000 (200 per quarter)

N/A100 schools

100-1,000Under 100 200 observersN/AN/AN/AN/A100-1,000 500 observersN/A1,000-10,000 1070 observers 5-6 reportsN/AN/A1,000-10,000 1003 observersN/A

TBD N/AN/A

Size of data collection effort (# of people targeted, size of SMS list, # of responses)100-1,000 (recurring

bi-weekly)Pump awareness, experiences and impact.

1,000-10,000 (recurring monthly)

1000 per country per month (2 countries X 8 waves) 16,000Agro dealers service reach and

use

1,000-10,000 (recurring bi-monthly)

(1000 per country every 2 months - 3 countries X 4waves) 12,000

1,000-10,000 (bi-monthly)

(1000 per country every 2 months - 2 countries X 4 waves) 8 ,0001,000-10,000

(monthly)(1,000 per country monthly - 2 countries X 8 waves) 16 ,000Pump awareness, experiences

and impact.(200 per month per country - 2 countries X 8 waves) 3200Agro dealers service reach and

use 100-1,000 (bi-monthly)

(200 every 2 month per country - 3 countries X 4 waves) 2400100-1,000 (bi-

monthly)(200 every 2 month per country - 3 countries X 4 waves) 2400(200 per month per country - 2 countries X 8 waves) 3200Livestock Management and vet

service usage A sample of 1627 subsistence farmers, 70 commercial farmers and 357 vet technicians

Presidential polling and rating government performance

1,000-10,000 (recurring quarterly)Publics opinion about a current

political issue

Issue-specific quantitative data/multiple choice response data, disaggregated by location.

1,100 youth beneficiaries participating in monthly polls/data surveys. System managed by committee of 10 youth leaders.

1) Radio program feedback: Scaled quantitative responses; 2) radio transmission surveys: multiple choice responses re.

mapping description of peace initiatives, time line showing updated initiative over time, forum and comment function,

media mix aiming at reaching out to all regions of Kenya. Currently, since launch on 12th of April:1. Estimated number of targeted people in the campaign so far;- 10,000people all over

Questions about youth political attitudes (ex: "were you registered to vote in the 2007 parliamentary election?" "Will you

35 field activists interviewed 2,100 youth chosen according to statistically accurate random sampling techniques and weighting (done by third party expert statisticians) - random sample

Multiple choice needs assessment surveys. Topics include: Training needs, resource support needs.

150 female community leaders in Northern Iraqi governorates


1000 interviews per month- total 12,000 per annum Educational statistics personnel

would text data collection instrument from web server to school head teachers on the field

Under 100 (recurring)

35 head teachers and 21statistics officers for Ghana Education Service demonstrated how mobile phones are used for school-based data gathering. They also assessed the new system Weekly pupil and teacher

attendance reports from 100 schools

100-1,000 (recurring weekly)Pre-election incident reporting,

election day reporting TBD

Qualitative and quantitative responses to 8-10 questions about the quality of the electoral process observed. Voter turnout SMS messages, ready to report messagesVoter turnout, qualitative question responses, incident reports and results were reported.

1276 observers, 51,000 messages sent / rec'd including training day and EDay

Voter turnout, qualitative question responses, incident reports and results were reported.Voter turnout, qualitative question responses, incident reports and results were reported.Voter turnout, qualitative question responses, incident reports and results were reported.Voter turnout, qualitative question responses, incident reports and results were reported.Voter turnout, qualitative question responses, incident reports were reported.Voter turnout, qualitative question responses, incident reports and results were reported.Voter turnout, qualitative question responses, incident reports were reported.

Pre-election incident reporting, election day reporting TBD

Person Finder TBD1,000-10,000N/A100-1,000100-1,000 (pilot)

N/A100-1,000TBD 30-60 people in 2010; 500 people in 201110,000-100,000

1,000-10,000

1,000-10,00010,000-100,000 1,000-10,000N/A

Disease Cases

1,000-10,000Patient data 100-1,000

1,000-10,000We have 1,200 women enrolled in our study.

N/AOver 100,000

10,000-100,000

Over 100,0010,000-100,000

N/AN/AN/A

N/AN/A

About 3,600 pregnant women and their infants.100-1,000 122 midwives were provided mobile phones N/A

N/A not yet begun - still in developmentPrevention, and reaction N/A N/A - Pending

10,000-100,000 1,000-10,000

1,000-10,000100-1,000N/A

Not yet functional - has not been deployed (no partner orgs in Haiti) - The content intended to be collected was based on the Person Finder utilities that sprouted up after the Haiti quake in

Public submitting info on help/food/water/shelter needed at various sites

3,573 reports submitted (2,218 were SMS reports)

Data ( map and description of AED location, including photo ) received is fed back into smartphone apps : iPhone "AED

All smartphone users ( currently iPhone and Droid ), more on the wayODK Collect is being piloted for collecting information from 50 farms and 400 animals.

Where was the sample taken, what was the quality of the water that day, how was the water flowing that day

[As of 2/2010] The Water Quality Reporter project has been operational in the different districts for varying amounts time. In Hantam, where the project has been running for seven

Household surveys and demonstration attendance records

10,000-100,000 (ongoing)

Data from more than 30,000 households already received (another 72,000 planned for 2010). As of April 2010, a total of 75,000 records containing over half a million fields have been Species name, time, date, GPS

location, text notes, and a photo.Plant name, date, GPS, phenophase, text notes, and a photo.

In 2008, almost 5000 observations were posted by several thousand participants. This is 5X the participation we had in 2007 and we expect significantly more from our efforts in 2009. The

1) Black carbon concentrations indoors will be captured by processing images of filters installed in each household.

Nutritional, Market prices, cross border trade quantities, programme monitoring, Market price data, cross border trade,

Varies by country - some are quite large (ex: Senegal is nationwide)

Free form questions asked anonymously by anyone/general public

100-1,000 (recurring monthly)

In India there are currently 5 stationary Question Boxes

Free form questions asked anonymously by anyone/general public

Child and Pregnancy registrations. Birth and death reports. Malnutrition, fever (malaria), diarrhea, immunization

10,000-100,000 (recurring)

In use past 9 months with 100+ chws. 9,500+ children in system in population of 60,000+ people. Over 20,000+ nutrition reports, 2,000+ malaria reports and 500+ acute malnutrition

Location details (district, facility, facility name) session details (date, start time, end time, no. respondents – male/female),

2600 responses (one for each PMTCT session held) were captured by 60 facilitators, over a period starting in mid July 2009 and ending at the end of September 2009.

Structured data collected as a side-effect of prompting care delivery

25,000 forms submitted, though this includes a fair bit of test dataEpi and nutrition data, individual

case data and weekly aggregatesPilot has 500 VHTs in 100 Villages monitoring an average of 12,500 households

Address and Mobile Phone Numbers of Nearest Health Facility as an SMS

eMOCHA is flexible in the type and content of data which is utilized. We currently have iterations in

100-1,000 (recurring)

-An initial pilot looking at the use of eMOCHA for HIV prevention is enrolling 1000 households 100-1,000

(recurring)

Process data for program management and research purposes. We collect data on client background, testing history,

1,000-10,000 (recurring daily)

2000+ clients so far, though we anticipate doubling or tripling this in the next year.

Malaria diagnosis and treatment. ACT drug stocks. Epidemological surveillance. Approximately 40 indicators.

100-1,000 (recurring)

170 clinics in 2 Ugandan districts with potential for scale-up. Weekly report (consisting of 4 text messages). Ongoing since last November with high reporting rates.

For the pilot in Ghana: Registering pregnant mothers and children under five. Capturing all encounters/visits,

Under 100 (ongoing) - pilot

Pilot covers 14 Community Health Compounds with about 30 nurses. Catchment population of nurses to be filled in shortly.

Location details (district, facility, facility name) session details (date, start time, end time, no. respondents – male/female),

1500 outreach report forms have been captured since mid June 2009.

In January 2009, the pilot study was launched at three GMC sites in central Malawi. Approximately 30 health surveillance assistants, typically holding a secondary school diploma

Date and location, no. participant, type of activity, which workshops were completed, and verification details.

2400 responses have been submitted since August 2009.

Quantitative survey data is collected from participants during four face to face interviews. The surveys range in length from 60

1,000-10,000 (recurring daily)

Data Collection is not the primary purpose of the project but an ancillary effect of providing better quality medical services for

In Zambia we are starting with 9 clinics and are talking with potential partners for quick expansion if the project is successful. --- In Malawi we are still in the scoping part of the

Pregnant women Health (Health condition, Weight, due date) Child Health (Date of Birth, health condition, weight, MUAC,

# of people targeted 720,000 (Est Pregnant women + Babies) in a year period

The SMS for Life pilot was designed so that health workers in Tanzania used their personal cell phone to send a weekly SMS

1,000-10,000 (recurring weekly)

The pilot project collected 13,500 stock-level data points from 129 health facilities across three remote districts in Tanzania over 21 weeks utilizing the SMS for Life application.

Reason for consultation, location of patient, action taken, projected birth date (for follow-up notifications), etc.

Under 100 (recurring daily)

Ramping up to 60 community healthcare workers, potential for 10 or more responses per day for each CHW

Age, gender, location, income level, knowledge on health topic, marital status.

80,000 participants in Uganda in 2009, 5,000 participants in Kenya in 2009.

Stock levels, interview information, patient details (symptoms, diagnosis method, treatment)

100-1,000 (recurring quarterly)

Data collected quarterly from 20-40 health facilities. Survey contains up to 4,000 records.

Supplies, cases, activities, events, staff, locations, contracts, surveys

Data collected on 106,520 patients involved in anti-retroviral treatment programs, 400 trained CHW personnel

Location, date, session start and end time, no. male/female attendants, topics dicussed, TAC specific questions, Hosipital

Over 45,000 responses with 22 fields have been submitted since mid July 2008.

HCT travels to each home in Kenya and attempts to ascertain the HIV status of all people therein. Basic demographics are

Over 100,000 (planned)

HCT is tasked with visiting each home in the 2 million person catchment area of AMPATH. There are currently about 50 counselors using ODK in the field, and in the process of getting

Tracking vaccines, medicines, and equipment supplied to rural health clinics.

Weekly epi, malaria and stock reports from HCs

100-1,000 (recurring weekly)

The RapidSMS reporting system was launched in Uganda in early November 2009 and covers 127 health workers from 45 health units in Gulu district and 247 health workers in 113 health

Transition from PDA to WEB Based, Over 100 Officers have submitted data on various occasions, Supervision, Outbreak Response, Immunization Survey, Child Health Integrated Vaccination, Question and

Answers and awarness

Demographic, infant feeding, newborn care, HIV. Surveys range from tens to hundreds of questions each.

1,000-10,000 (recurring daily)Pre-natal and maternal health

stats

Data captured includes facilitator details, location details, no. male/female attendants, types of messages delivered, and

3800 responses have been captured to date, starting from mid August 2009.

Community patient registers (GPRS), SMS reminders, SMS quizes, SMS questions and answers


1000 village health team members (CHWs) in Uganda, 50 APEs (CHWs) in Mozambique

Nutrition and supply data from OTP sites for better vulnerability tracking and RUTF forcastingLocation details (district, facility, facility name) session details (date, start time, end time, no. respondents – male/female),

Over 32,000 responses (one for each treatment literacy session) have been collected since June 2008.

The survey HRC uses has more than 300 questions, the database more than 550 fields. In a month, they have completed 1853 surveys all over the country using 20 enumerators

Types of violence against children, places where it takes place (based on UN Violence against Children Study - UNVAC)

To date it's open/crowdsourced. 2 districts in Benin, just starting in Togo

Exposure to violence and attitudes about peace, justice and social reconstruction.

Data are collected by trained interviewers among a random sample of the population. The size of the sample varies (about 2,000 in the Central African Republic, 2,500 in northern

Data collected and sent by SMS benefited low-income youth: refers to free opportunities available nearby low-income

Mobile Rede Jovem benefits 500 low-income youth from Rio de Janeiro (Rio de Janeiro City), Sao Paulo (Santo André City) and Espírito Santo (Vila Velha city) states

base map layer as well as health service, securitz, informal schools and water/sanitation points (using GPS) layered on

the first free and open source map available to Kiberas 600K residents, also for networks of service providers as an advocacy project tool; we have over 1000 data points

N/AOver 100,000

Health, Consumer Data N/AN/A over 4000 downloadsN/A

Water access and prices 1,000 - 10,000 N/AN/A

8,000 core users submitting weekly data

1,000-10,000Number of people targeted- 1000+

N/A

Biometric information (fingerprints) and photographs of the members of the household who are covered by insurance

Over 14 million BPL households/families have been signed on using smart cards

The response SMS messages contain the following: an answer to the question "is your drug genuine or fake (Y/N), a 65 character tip on healthy lifestyles and how to manage certain

Village profiling and household surveys

Profiling to cover all 10 states in South, as well as the Transitional Areas of Sudan2,000 - 4,000 georeferenced respondents who respond using SMS / USSD

Baseline household survey and easy to monitor information : teacher absenteism, nutritional status, poverty, access to water,

Baseline household survey and easy to monitor information : teacher absenteism, nutritional status, poverty, access to water, Employment data: User location, gender, work experience, work availability, desired work sector


1) Attendance data: # of training sessions attended, completed, incomplete; disaggregated by training group and location. 2)


1,200 core users submitting weekly data in Phase 1 (2009-10); 8,000 users anticipated in Phase 2 (beginning May 2010).

Household Inventory - demographic data and household health and hygiene behavior and practice indicators all gathered

All registered health club members (currently ~1,000 housheolds), 65 questions (but varies by survey due to skip patterns and survey logic)

Farm Harvest Statistics, Farm Sales Statistics, Tree Planting Initiatives,Arts & Culture Events, Youth Meetings Organised,Girls

1,000-10,000 (recurring)Under 100 (recurring weekly)

28 phones with surveys are deployed weekly for (~6 a weeks) to two community

Data Collection DetailsFrequency of data collection

Public Bi-weeklySynovate interviewers Monthly Synovate interviewers Every 2 Months (panel) Synovate interviewers Monthly Synovate Monthly Synovate interviewers Every 2 Months (panel) Synovate interviewers Monthly Synovate Monthly Synovate Every 2 months Synovate Every 2 months Synovate Monthly Synovate interviewers ad-hoc one off Synovate interviewers Quarterly Synovate interviewers Quarterly Synovate interviewers ad-hoc one off

Monthly TBDDaily

Trained local youth advocatesAd hoc

Synovate interviewers ad-hoc one off

Synovate interviewers Monthly Synovate interviewers ad-hoc one off Synovate interviewers Quarterly

Head teachers Weekly

Trained citizen election monitorsTrained citizen election monitorsTrained citizen election monitorsTrained citizen election monitorsTrained citizen election monitorsTrained citizen election monitorsTrained citizen election monitorsTrained citizen election monitorsTrained citizen election monitorsTrained citizen election monitorsTrained citizen election monitorsTrained citizen election monitorsTrained citizen election monitorsCitizens, trained citizen election monitors

Who is collecting data? (public/bottom-up or "trained professionals/surveyers")

Surveys sent directly to beneficiaries; no intermediary data collectors

1) Radio program feedback: received directly from beneficiaries; 2) Radio transmission surveys: data collected by field monitors; 3) field news reporting: Crowdsourcing with monitoring of verified data input by local data handling team

During February. (This was not election day related observation-rather a survey on youth attitudes and participation. Surveys sent directly to beneficiaries; no

intermediary data collectors

Headteachers and district statistics officers collecting for regional and national planning (bottom-up)

The project was piloted in 2 districts from November 1, 2009 to January 30, 2010

The sms poll will be through schools (teachers) for in-school kids, they will facilitate the response of the sms poll (1 question, multiple choice), the details of Citizens for citizen reporting components, & Trained citizen election monitors

Daily during pre-election period citizen reporting phase, several reports per day on election day from thousands of trained Several messages per observer per day on election day.1-3 message per day per observerSeveral messages per observer per day on election day.12,068 messages rec'd per day, 28,968 messages sent per day1-3 message per day per observer

5-6 reports per observer on election day, 6-7000 reports collected per day.

Public smartphone users

Trained surveyors and demonstrators Public and trained professionalsPublic Daily

Roving people with cell phones Local community health care workers Daily (ongoing)

Community Health WorkersVillage Health Teams (VHTs) Weekly

Daily150 trained community health workers Daily

DailyClinic staff Weekly

Mothusimpilo facilitators

One Voice facilitators

clinic staff, CHWs real timeDaily

CHWs WeeklyDailyDailyquarterly

TAC facilitatorsHCT counselors

Health Workers/Health CentersTrained Public Health Officials Monthly, Bi-annualy, Emergency

Royal Scientific Scoiety

LifeLine facilitatorsRoutinely (submission monthly)

Automatic resources

public whenever they want

Local youths who live in the favellas

Public in Haiti - shortcode was set up and publicized through word of mouth and some media

Ad hoc (heaviest traffic/spike in reports coming in around 7-10 days after the earthquake)Whenever they come across a public AED

Field workers (government employees who live in testing areas)

Surveys: About 1 month per year per area. Demonstrations records. Four months per year per areaWhenever participants are in a park or when it is convenient.Community residents, with training.

Supported by a trained staff person living on site.

Black carbon data (images) collected once a day; time-location-activity traces (GPS) collected continuously; cooking

WFP with partners (govts, UN, NGOs) - WFP helps train/coordinate numerators who are often government, NGO, or UN staff, or university students

Periodic (as citizens approach the box) - averages around 10 questions per day2,000 questions collected in total over 2 months

CMT facilitators – those who run the PMTCT sessions.

One response is sent in at the end of each PMTCT session, with around 850 responses being submitted each month.CHWs work daily, visit their clients monthly usually

Kerala State Govt, District Medical Officers

As and when a new health facility is registeredCommunity Health Workers and/or Clinic

Staff

Lay Counsellors (who are also doing the HIV testing)Primarily trained community health workers that are part of Ghana Health Service CHPS system but some data collection is also done by community

Continuously (with each patient encounter seen by a nurse in the catchment area)

Data is captured after each session, with roughly 150 responses being sent in each month.Data is captured after each session, with roughly 300 responses being sent in each month.

We employ a team of research assistants who were trained on the platform to conduct the interviews and capture the responses using Mobile

Data is received daily from the 8 clinic sites

Currently piloting in one district (Musanze) with 432 trained Community Health Workers. A total of 150,000 trained CHWs will be trained in a year Trained community healthcare workers. Online data collection supplements paper-based data collection already in placeTrained personnel of Text to Change and community healthcare workers.trained professionals/surveyors (i.e. USAID | DELIVER PROJECT staff, as well as Ministry of Health officials)

Data is collected on roughly 2200 sessions each month.

We anticipate each counselor in the HCT project visiting a household once. We're considering a second project

During this period, peripheral health centers using the system had a 91 percent reporting rate, with a total of 924 out of 1015 Community Health Workers with basic

training in health care as well as matriculants with training in data collection

DAILY (except during week-ends and public holidays)

Phones provided to MWs, Midwife Coordinators (MWCs) and OBGYNs at the provincial hospital

Data is captured after each session, with roughly 450 responses being sent in each month. CHWs as part of their routine monthly

reporting

CMT facilitators – Those who run the HIV and AIDS treatment literacy sessions.

Data is captured and sent after each session, with an average of 1200 responses coming in per month.Trained teams of 20 to 50 interviewers in

country. 7 to 15 days of training on questionnaire content, interviewing techniques and use of the PDAs.

Cross sectional surveys. Data collection typically lasts 4 to 5 weeks.

Mobile Rede Jovem benefits 500 young residents from 5 low-income communities within 3 cities from 3 states of Brazil.

This community-driven map is populated with multiple data layers collected by human-rights organizations and a network of informed inhabitants.

Local numerators trained by IOM Yearly

WeeklyWeekly

KCDF field personnel/staffWeekly

Nigerians who buy medication or consumer products and have cell phones (approx 70M)

Sproxil, Inc collects the data that is voluntarily provided by any consumer in Nigeria.

Surveys sent directly to beneficiaries; no intermediary data collectors

1) Attendance data: entered by field monitors. 2) Employment data: Surveys sent directly to beneficiaries; no intermediary data collectors

Community-Based Facilitators -- Community based facilitators (lay community volunteers) indicated that using the mobile phone to conduct the

3 times per project (baseline, mid-term, post-intervention)Daily for some programs and Quarterly for others

AssessmentQuality of data Potential for scale?

Survey on going Surveys yet to start Yet to start

Yet to start Yet to start Yet to start Yet to start

NA Can be scaled up to all bank customers.

TBDTBD

Verified and analyzed by expert statisticians.

being evaluated HighTBD

TBDTBD

An attrition rate of approximately 50% . Respondents unwilling to answer personal questions on household durables and aspirations over the phone. Network

Can be scaled up to the entire customer database but its subject to availability of modern CATI facilities

Scaling up is subject to availability of farmers phone numbers in selected districts which have a fairly low mobile phone incidence. Such numbers are not Scaling to the entire database is possible since the number are few (moving to attempt SMS based surveys - see below)Scaling up is possible if phone numbers are available

Survey on going - Running mobile surveys across multiple languages presents a unique challenge of scheduling (Calls have to be scheduled by availability of the interviewers who

Scaling up is subject to availability of farmers phone numbers in selected districts which have a fairly low mobile phone incidence. Such numbers are not Survey on going - attrition rate for the on-going

survey is close to 50%

Scaling up is possible mobile phone but its dependent on quality and availability of mobile numbers Scaling up is possible if phone numbers are available Scaling up is possible if phone numbers are available Scaling up is possible if phone numbers are available Scaling up is possible if phone numbers are available

To achieve the sample about 5,000 calls were made (success rate of about 30%). The low success rate was mainly owing to incorrect numbers or unavailability. It is difficult to deal

The bulk of Kenyan farmers are subsistence and its estimated that at least 50% of the Synovates’ in-house telephonic data base is made up of such

Typically the survey records an attrition of 20% - 30%

Synovate has a database of over 30,000 telephonic numbers collected through face to face interviews since 2008. The survey could be scaled up to 5,000 calls per Can be scaled up depending on the availability of phone numbers

High: Multiple choice/scaled menus reduce user error

High: Easily scalable with no additional hardware/software requirementsHigh: Multiple choice/scaled menus reduce user

error

High: Anticipated scale-up across Darfur/Southern Sudan without additional hardware/software needed

No M&E yet. Data input by target group directly, support and follow up by data handling team for reality check. Platform accompanied by country wiede cross media campaign, creating public

The platform integrated in the joomla environment can be used for other countries and projects. The joomla component facilitates the possibility to


High: Easily scalable with no additional hardware/software requirementsCan be scaled up to the entire customer base however Synovate's' CATI facilities in Tanzania can only currently handle 3,000 calls per month

Can be scaled up to the entire customer base however Synovate's CATI facilities in Tanzania can only currently handle 3,000 calls per month

Can be scaled up to the entire customer base however Synovate's CATI facilities in Uganda can only currently handle 5,000 calls per month

Now writing the findings - The raw data collected reveals great potential of acceptability and success of the project.

Findings and suggestions would be given to the Ghana Education Service for larger piloting and subsequent adoption for its census and other data collection.

Not launched yet - The timeline is to have prototypes ready and tested by August, roll out early october (sms poll and voice messages either in tandem or phased out) The system will be designed to scale to

other programs and election environments.

High due to structured form data from trained observers, SMS confirmation and SMS data verification used.

This was the first attempt at a system that did prove to scale, handled hundreds of messages per minute during reporting periods. The methodology and High, simple "ready to report" message to initiate

callback

This simple approach is easy to implement and does scale assuming you use a gateway that can handle anticipate volume of inboud/outbound messages


This project was a replica of the 2006 independence referendum and was implemented by the civic partners with limited technical assistance from NDI.


The system scales, handled hundreds of messages per minute during reporting periods. The methodology and technologies have been used and High due to structured form data from trained

observers, SMS confirmation and SMS data verification used.

The system and approach scales, but in this case was limited due to the mobile infrastructure and services that necessitated tethering phones to the

The system scales, handled hundreds of messages per minute during reporting periods. The methodology and technologies have been used and

High due to structured form data from trained observers, SMS confirmation and SMS data verification used. Most accurate PVT result ever due in part to good SMS reporting tools

The system scales, handled hundreds of messages per minute during reporting periods. The methodology and technologies have been used and

N/A unknown

Good. Extensive quality control doneStill being evaluated.

To be determined.High

Currently inactive (needs funding) Operationaly good. Still being evaluated.

Replicable world wideBeing actively evaluated.

TBD

still being evaluated

Still being evaluatedNo, scientific basis yet.Excellent

Weekly Stable and real timeDailyGood Very good

hasn't started being collected yet seems good

Varies - some reports were verified and actionable (shared with response orgs), others were unverified or redundant

Ushahidi is being experimented with in various contexts - biggest obstacles include doing a review to determine effectiveness, and getting short codes set GPS location (viewable on map), text description

and photo of AEDScale increases as more smartphones enter market

Currently still in development, but good potential for scalePlanned households to visit in 2010: 80,000 (10% completed to date). Number of records: 120,000

Easily scalable. The current system easily allows park officials the addition of new weed lists associated with new locations. Source code for both website and mobile Still being evaluated, educational outcome has

been significant.Open to anyone globally who wishes to participate.

Intend to scale to 500 people next year. Application distribution on a Brew phone network will be the challenge. Any phone with a camera can collect the black carbon High. Validation systems have been built to

ensure clean data

Good. Questions are documented on spreadsheets by operators. Some demographic data of question-askers is also collected. Questions tended to be like directory listings

Exploring expanding and moving into mobile Questions tended to be about agriculture, health

or encyclopedia/fact type questions Technically easy to scale. Depends on functional CHW programs and working health systems.

High. Skip-logic, required fields, and formatted fields are built in to the form to ensure clean data.

The project solution could be scaled up to include any organization that holds PMTCT sessions in any location.

We are building our systems to scale; Our target is to have 1,400 CHWs using CommCare by 2014, covering a population of about 1 million people in The Contents Authenticated before releasing it

to public by the District Medical Officers appointed by Govt

Today-Modest. Within the next 5 years-Large. Our paradigm is to be forward looking as we currently develop the mhealth tools on an open-source The platform can be used by anyone. Thailand plans to scale this up Nationally

The system is actually helping us detect a number of data queries that will really help to ensure that our data is cleaned along the way and in good shape by the end of the project. Being evaluated but good. Data quality closely linked to source of data (how data is aggregated at clinic).

Large. Training requirements low and reporters can use their own phones. Could support national level scale-up.High quality. Skip-logic, required fields, and

formatted fields are built in to each form to ensure clean data.

This project could be scaled up with ease; similar versions of this project are currently being used by a number of other organizations.High quality. Skip-logic, required fields, and

formatted fields are built in to each form to ensure clean data.

This project could be scaled up with ease; similar versions of this project are currently being used by a number of other organizations.

The quality of our data is high. This is particularly true with respect to missing values, out or range responses and branching errors. Over the period of 2 years the system has proven to be both solid M&E and the full intent to scale

nationally and regionally if successful are two key aspects of the projectCurrently piloting in Musanze District, but the scale up to 150,000 CHWs is scheduled for Sept. 2010

The system is built with relevant Rwandan and international standards and is intended to be fully harmonized with CHIS and other Ministry of Health

The average weekly response rate over the 21 weeks across all three pilot districts was 95 %, never dropping below 93%. Message formatting errors averaged 7.5% per week with almost all

Potential for significantly scaling up (more CHWs) and out (more/different data being collected)Text to Change is scaling to more countries, quiz topics and more users.

Has been implemented in a new African country every quarter since July 2009, while continuing to be implemented quarterly in the countries where it has

High quality. Skip-logic, required fields, and formatted fields are built in to ensure clean data. -- Even though only the date field was mandatory, less than 0.01% responses were not

This project could easily be scaled up to include neighbouring African countries, as well as other LIC's.

We anticipate each counselor in the HCT project visiting a household once. We're considering a second project where we mobilize the community for follow-up in

Initially was used by Division of Vaacines and Immunization and Division of Disease Surveilance; now division of Child Health has picked it up on the Bi-Annual

Piloted in 2007 - current status of project unknown...?

High. Skip-logic, required fields, and formatted fields are built in to each form to ensure clean data.

Any organsisation doing similar work could use this EMIT solution on a smaller or larger scale.

We will evaluate the effect of mobile phones on motivation, supervision and data use/flow, measure the cost effectiveness and potential for scale up in

The proposed new project is still in a very preliminary stage i.e. (development) and we have only just recruited a project manager. I anticipate the project will start Plans to offer: Family mobile module for emergencies plan; Corporate mobile module for emergencies plan; Early alerts mobile module; Blood banks and vital

High quality. Skip-logic, required fields, and formatted fields are built in to the form to ensure clean data.

This project has been successfully scaled up from provincial to national level, and it could easily be scaled up further.High - A mask is used to limit the type and

values that can be entered to reduce field entry errors. Answers to all question is mandatory to avoid missing questions, and skipping pattern is

High - we are working on a form builder to facilitate the creation of surveys. We conduct training to build capacities of partner organizations in countries to

several times an hour all week long

Being evaluated Very good

High High

We get good fidelity - we can tell how many responses are from genuine products, fake products, data entry errors and people trying to re-use authentication


High: Scale-up from 8,000 to 10,000 users in process as of Apr. 2010. High: Multiple choice/scaled menus reduce user

errorHigh: Scale-up from 1,200 to 8,000 users in process as of Apr. 2010.

Notes

Given that cross-network charges are high, the CATI facilities need to be supported by a system that allows for same network calls. A substantial

Running mobile surveys across multiple languages presents a unique challenge of scheduling (Calls have to be scheduled by availability of the

USSD option is only available in Kenya and not in Uganda or Tanzania. The USSD/SMS system should have been up and running by March 2010 but

It is difficult to get lists of commercial farmers and vet technicians as this is built through referrals and a number of them are unwilling to participate in

Quarterly surveys to bank customers who in some cases are also the elite are not well received as some customers are called multiple timesFindings are published in the local newspaper and it generates a lot of interest

Although the surveys were supposed to be 10 minutes, calls average 14 minutes.

Very good

pilot project

Never deployed -- "Unfortunately, while we produced a working application for Android phones, we were not successful in establishing partnerships

Initial report/paper on project will be public soon.

See the CMT case study at http://www.emitmobile.co.za/case-studies/We use Solio solar chargers and car chargers to be totally independend from external power sources. Examples of our reports can be found on HRC

Africa + India. Addressable market of 2 billion people

Documents

Mobile Data Collection Inventory