Mobile Data Collection Inventory

Mobile Data Collection Projects Inventory
Compiled by MobileActive.org (April/May 2010)
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Basic Project Information

Project Name Organization Country or Region
Agriculture Mobile Agiculture Mobile Sudan / Khartoum
KickStart (Gates Funded) Synovate Kenya &Tanzania
Kenya, Tanzania&
AGRA (Gates Funded) Synovate Uganda
IITA (Gates Funded) Synovate Tanzania
IITA (Gates Funded) Synovate Tanzania
Kenya, Tanzania &
AATF (Gates Funded) Synovate Uganda
EADD (Gates Funded) Synovate Kenya & Uganda
KickStart (Gates Funded) Synovate Kenya &Tanzania
Kenya, Tanzania &
AGRA (Gates Funded) Synovate Uganda
Kenya, Tanzania &
AATF (Gates Funded) Synovate Uganda
EADD (Gates Funded) Synovate Kenya & Uganda
Farm Africa Synovate Kenya
CFC-Stanbic
2010 Nonpartisan citizen domestic Synovate Kenya
Synovate
election Pan Africa
monitoring
2011 Nonpartisan projectdomestic
citizen - Synovate Kenya
Nation
National Group
Democratic Institute
election monitoring project - (NDI) Synovate Kenya
Program Democratic Institute (NDI)
National Egypt
Program
Gaza Youth SMS Info and Polling Souktel (implementing partner: Nicaragua
Service
Darfur/Southern Sudan Community MercyCorps)Souktel (implementing partner: Middle East (Palestine)
News and Feedback Service EDC Inc.)Works, Media Focus on
Butterfly East Africa (Sudan)
Building Bridges Peace Campaign Africa Hayat Center for Civil Society Kenya
Jordan
Iraqi Elections
Women 2010
Peace-Builders Development
SMS Souktel and NDI partner:
(implementing Jordan
Info Service
Umeme (power generating MercyCorps) Middle East (Iraq)
company) Synovate Uganda
AppLab Grameen Foundation Uganda
Tigo Synovate Tanzania
Zain
Using Mobile Phones to collect Synovate Tanzania
SNV Uganda in partnership with
UTL
Education Synovate
Management Information Mobiletools, University
Makerere University of Ministry
CIT, Uganda
System
Children's
2010 (EMIS)
Poll
Nonpartisan School-based
and Speak Out data Jyvaskyla,Finland
citizen domestic of Education, Mbale and Kiboga Ghana,Ashanti Region
Montenegro Independence
Campaign
election
Referendum:monitoring
2006 project -
Nonpartisan UNICEF
Districts, Iraq
Flora Famiy Foundation Iraq
Mbale and Kiboga
Indonesia Legislative Elections:
CU@SCHOOL
National
citizen Democratic
domestic
2004 Nonpartisan Institute
election
citizen (NDI)
monitoring
domestic and Twaweza
Uganda Democratic Monitoring districts
Montenegro General Elections:
Program
project
election - National
monitoring
2006 Nonpartisan Democratic
project -
citizen domestic Group
Center - DemGroup
for Democratic Transition Uganda
Albania Local Government
Institute
National (NDI) Program
Democratic
election Parliamentary
Elections: monitoring Institute
project
2007 Nonpartisan (NDI)
- citizen - CDT Montenegro
Bahrain Elections:
Program
National
domestic
2006 Democratic
election
Nonpartisan Institute
monitoring
citizen (NDI) Center for Democratic Transition
project
domestic Indonesia
Sierra Leone Presidential Elections:
-Program
National
election
2007 Democratic Institute
monitoringcitizen
Nonpartisan projectdomestic
- - CDT
Coalition of seven local Montenegro
(NDI) Program
National
election
2008 Democratic
monitoring
project
citizen - (NDI)
domestic nongovernmental organizations Albania
Program
National
election Democratic
monitoring
project
citizen - (NDI)
domestic Bahrain Transparency Society Bahrain
Program
National
election Democratic
monitoring
project
citizen National Election
- (NDI) Zimbabwe
domestic Watch
Election - NEW
Support Sierra Leone
Program
National
election
2009 Democratic Institute
monitoringcitizen
Nonpartisan (NDI)
projectdomestic
- Network
Coalition - ZESN
of Domestic Election Zimbabwe
Program
National
election
2010 Democratic
monitoring
project
citizen Observers Association
- (NDI) Lebanese
domestic - CODEO for Ghana
Program
National
election
2010 Democratic
monitoring
project
citizen - (NDI)
domestic Democratic Elections - LADE Lebanon
Programs
National
election
2010 Democratic
monitoring
project
citizen - (NDI)
domestic SHAMS - coalition of Iraqi NGOS Iraq - Kurdistan
Program
National
election Democratic
monitoring
project
citizen Civic Network OPORA
- (NDI) SHAMS - coalition of 113 NGOS
domestic Ukraine
Programs
National
election Democraticproject
monitoring - (NDI) in Iraq
Institute Iraq
Program Democratic Institute (NDI) Consortium of Nigerian civic
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CommCare
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Uganda, Tanzania
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School of Public Health in Nepal
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UPenn South
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& Culture. informatoin
Water,
security and cooperative organization inThe
the phone’s
communities survey where
m Sanitation
rapidSMS
applications
they operate. and
is beingHygiene
provide
Using deployed(WASH)
participants
ODK, as awith
Lumana programs;
tool the
seeks to and
to allow
ability
build WASH
field
to personnel
give
off advocacy.
answers
their to
current
www.mclabs.it report
with on
multiple the impact
choice of
and the
freeprojects
text in
answers, different
data collection software to refine how they survey and understand and communities.
digital
http://www.lumana.o the photographs.
communities they currently serve and the villages they seek to
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by the "Country/Region"staff. We look forward to
Data Data Source (who is collecting or reporting

Type/Category Platform Used the information)
Agriculture SMS Official #s - (price & product information)
Agriculture Custom Intermediary - interviewer
Agriculture Targeted public (eventually)
Agriculture Intermediary - interviewer
Banking services Customer service survey
Souktel Aidlink - SMS
Civic Intermediary - interviewer
Survey Application:
Souktel Aidlink - SMS
Civic Web and SMS-based Intermediary - interviewer
Survey Application:
Civic Drupal/Managing
survey
Web creation
and and
SMS-based N/A
Civic News,
campaign
survey the rest TBD N/A
Civic - Peace and Souktel Aidlink -and
creation SMS
Civic
Conflict, awareness management
democracy/governa campaign Targeted public
Survey Application:
nce
Civic Participation - management
creation, Web and SMS-based Targeted public (field monitors and beneficiaries)
empowerment
Education, ushahidi
survey creation and Crowdsourced (voluntary participation)
Civic Participation
Democracy/Governa ???
campaign Intermediary
Targeted - field
public activists/volunteers
(community
nce management leaders/beneficiaries)
Customer Service Survey - customer service
Surveys
Customer Service ODK Targeted Public (opinion/survey)
Surveys
Customer Service All mobile phones Survey - customer service
Surveys
Customer Service with support for Survey - customer service
OpenXdata
Drupal/Managing
Surveys J2ME, GPRS andSMS
(www.openxdata.org, Survey - customer service
News, SlingShot
Microsoft Access, IIS
Education
Education, colour screen
developed
module, by short
local Officials (teachers)
Targeted public (specific outreach for
w/ custom ASP
Children's
Education,rights
School scripts,
Makerere
code, USB
SMS University
cell particpantsthrough schools and NGOs)
Microsoft Access, IIS
attendance CIT and consortium)
modem,
Reception Clickatell
softwarefor Official #s (teachers reporting attendance)
w/ customAccess,
Microsoft ASP IIS
Election Monitoring package,
outbound
scripts, SMS messaging
Clickatell Intermediary - election monitors
w/ custom
Microsoft ASP IIS
Access,
Election Monitoring Gateway
Reception
scripts, SMS software Intermediary - election monitors
w/ custom ASP
Reception Clickatell
software Intermediary - election monitors
scripts, SMS
Election Monitoring Microsoft
Gateway
package,
Reception
Access, IIS
Clickatell
Microsoft
w/ customAccess,
ASP IIS
package,
w/ custom tethered
7 USB-
ASP Intermediary - election monitors
scripts, SMS
Election Monitoring phones
tethered
scripts, for
SMS receiving.
mobile
Reception software Intermediary - election monitors
phones toClickatell
Reception receive.
package. for Intermediary - election monitors
Election Monitoring send/receive Intermediary - election monitors
Election Monitoring Intermediary - election monitors
Election Monitoring Custom IIS web Intermediary - election monitors
Election Monitoring application, SMS Intermediary - election monitors
Election Monitoring Reception Center? Intermediary - election monitors
Election Monitoring Drupal/Managing Intermediary - election monitors
Election Monitoring News, the rest TBD Intermediary - election monitors
is built on Open Data
Kit (ODK), which in
turn is built upon
JavaRosa, which is a
J2ME XForm parsing
library for mobile
devices. [ODK,
Emergency - Natural Xform/PFIF]
iPhone "beextra", N/A
Disaster Ushahidi
Droid "ShowNearby Crowdsourced/Citizen Reports (voluntary
Emergency, Medical
Environment - AED" participation)
Farming/Animals
Environment - Water ODK Intermediary
Official - field -staff
Health workersresults from water
submiting
Quality test
Environmental Mobile Researcher
RapidSMS and Intermediary - surveyors
Environmental
Environmental, custom
RapidSMS and Crowdsourced/Citizen Reports
Educational.
Environmental, custom Crowdsourced/Citizen Reports
Health
Food Security, Brew Phones
WFP PDASurvey,
Question boxes, Targeted
Official #spublic
- data-collected
trained community
by WFP staffmembers
or
Markets, monitoring FrontlineSMS
using Open Question govt/UN partners
General/All software Crowdsource/Citizen Reports (voluntary)
General/All EMIT – Cell-Life's Crowdsource/Citizen Reports (voluntary)
Health RapidSMS
mobile data collection Intermediary - CHWs
Health software. Intermediary - CMT facilitators
Health OpenSource
built on JavaROSA Intermediary - CHWs
Health application
rapidSMS built on Intermediary - VHTs about medical facilities,
Official - information
Health top
SMS of OpenMRS.
Mobile/ PHP
eMOCHA
Leverages
running on
Researcher + locations
Health Android OS
custom-developed Intermediaries - CHWs
OpenXData for
Health Geochat
web / and
SeenTags
management
designing Intermediary - CHWs
Health console
deploying mobile Intermediary
Official - Counselors
#s (clinics reporting drug stocks levels,
Health RapidSMS
forms –toCell-Life's
EMIT java-enabled etc.)
Health handsets.
mobile data collection Intermediary - CHWs
Mobile Researcher +
Health software.
EMIT – Cell-Life's
Internally developed Staff evaluations
Health RapidSMS
mobile data collection
web application for Intermediary - CHW
Health software. and
monitoring Staff evaluations
Health tracking
any phone, Intermediary - researchers/interviewers
Health RapidSMS Intermediaries - CHWs
Health RapidSMS Intermediary - CHWs
Text to Change (End
Health Voxiva - IVR?
of this year, Text to Intermediary - CHWs
Health SMS
Change will start to Official - #s about medicine stock levels
Health EpiSurveyor
work with an changed Intermediary - CHWs
Health version of RapidSMS) Targeted public & Intermediaries
Health EpiSurveyor
EMIT – Cell-Life's Intermediary - health professionals
Health Voxiva data collection
mobile Intermediary - CHWs
Health software. staff evaluation
Health ODK Intermediary - health workers
Health ODK Staff evaluation (supply chain)
Health ODK N/A
Health N/A
Health rapidSMS
Web
Java
Mobilebased
Researcher + Intermediaries
Intermediary - CHWs
- public health officials ("Official
Health
Health - Maternal Episurveyor
application
custom-developedand SMS data")
Health and Child web
Newborn messages
management N/A
Health - prenatal
service console
EMIT – Cell-Life's Intermediary - CHWs
and
Healthmaternity
delivery/improvemen
- service mobile
Java data collection
enabled Nokia Intermediary - Midwives
tdelivery/quality software.
phones Staff evaluations
EMIT – Cell-Life's to
with GPRS
control crisis, life,
Health, submit data collection
mobile data Intermediary - CHWs
Healthimpact,
social and Supply Episurveyor
RapidSMS
software. and N/A
disasters
Health/Staff custom
http://www.emitmobile N/A
Evaluation
Human Rights, .co.za/case-studies/ Intermediary - CHWs
Human Rights
International ODK
FrontlineSMS, Intermediary - surveyors/interviewers
Crowdsource/Citizen Reports (voluntary
Human Rights
Development, Ushahidi
ODK / KoBo on participation)
Peace and Conflict Android Phones Intermediary - trained interviewers
Mapping Targeted public
Mapping Open street Map Targeted public - NGOs, informed citizens
insurer with the hardware required to collect
biometric information (fingerprints) and
photographs of the members of the household
In-house developed covered and a printer to print smart cards with a
cloud-based photo. The smart card, along with an information
computing service. pamphlet describing the scheme and the list of
1) Souktel
Needs Aidlink
to cater for - hospitals, is provided on the spot once the
Mapping SMS
1) Survey
Souktel
SMSes fromAidlink
70M - N/A
beneficiary has paid the 30 rupee fee. The
Quality of
Misc. Application:
SMS
usersSurvey Web
connected to and N/A
process normally takes less than ten minutes.
Life/Community
Misc. SMS-based
SMART
Application:
Nigeria's survey
cards
Web
largest and The cards are handed over in a plastic cover.
Conditions - Basic
Misc.
N/A (data creation
SMS-based
mobile and survey
networks Citizen reports (consumers)
Services,
Quality of collection campaign
tool)
Population, creation
ODK and N/A
life/Community
Life/Community
Quality of management; 2)
Environment campaign
Conditions -
Life/Community (water Nokia
all Souktel
Data Gathering Intermediary - numerators
Quality of management; 2) -
JobMatch
access)
("baseline
Conditions - all SMS employment Crowdsourced/Citizen reports
Life/Community Souktel JobMatch -
household
("baseline
Education,
Conditions surveys) N/A
data employment Targeted public
Quality of - SMS
household
Employment,
Education, surveys)
Life/Community N/A
collection/database
data Targeted public
Quality of
Economic
Employment,
Conditions Growth application
collection/database Targeted public (beneficiaries)
Quality of -
Life/Community
Economic
Household Growth
impact application Targeted public (beneficiaries)
of -surveys,
Conditions
Life/Community
Quality
hygeine
of practices
projects
Conditions on
-
Life/Community living Mobile Researcher Targeted public (registered members)
community
conditions, health,
Conditions - Needs rapidSMS Intermediary - field staff
safety
Assessment: Targeted public (survey participants)
Finance, Microcredit ODK Intermediary
Size of data collection effort (# of people
Content of data General
100-1,000 size
(recurring targeted, size of SMS list, # of responses)
Price and production
Pump awareness, experiences information bi-weekly)
1,000-10,000 500s
1000 per country per month (2 countries X 8
and impact.
Agro dealers service reach and (recurring bi- monthly) waves)per
(1000 16,000
country every 2 months - 3 countries X
use monthly) 4waves) 12,000
Cassava Disease recognition 100-1,000 (monthly) (300 every month for 7 waves) 2,100
Cassava Disease recognition 100-1,000 (monthly)
1,000-10,000 (bi- (I country
(1000 per 60 per month
country every X2 8months
waves)- 480
2 countries X
Awareness and use of IR maize monthly) 1,000-10,000 4 waves) 8 ,000
(1,000 per country monthly - 2 countries X 8
Dairy
Pumpmanagement/production
awareness, experiences (monthly) waves)
(200 per16 ,000 per country - 2 countries X 8
month
and impact.
Agro dealers service reach and 100-1,000 (bi- (monthly) waves)
(200 3200
every 2 month per country - 3 countries X 4
use monthly) (bi-
100-1,000 waves)
(200 2400
every 2 month per country - 3 countries X 4
Awareness and use of IR maize monthly) waves)
(200 per2400
month per country - 2 countries X 8
Dairy management/production
Livestock Management and vet 100-1,000 (monthly) waves)
A sample
media 3200
mix ofaiming
1627 at subsistence
reaching out farmers, 70
to all regions of
service usage 100-1,000 commercial
Kenya. farmers
Currently, andlaunch
since 357 vetontechnicians
12th of April:1.
Customer satisfaction
Presidential polling and rating Under 100
1,000-10,000 Estimated number of and
410 retail customers targeted people in the
85 businesses.
1) Radio
government program feedback:
performance (recurring quarterly) campaign so far;-
2000 respondents per wave 10,000people all over Kenya.
Publics opinion about a current
Scaled
mapping
Questions quantitative
description
about youth responses;
peace 2) 100-1,000
of political 2. SMSs sent;- through Media Focus and
political issue 839 interviews
radio transmission
initiatives,
attitudes time
(ex: linesurveys:
"were showing
you PeaceNet - 5,625
TBD
Issue-specific
multiple choice quantitative
responses re.forum N/A 1,100 youth beneficiaries participating in monthly
updated initiative
registered to vote over
in thetime,
2007 3. Responses through SMSs;- 919
TBD
data/multiple
quality
and and nature
comment choice of response
function, transmission N/A polls/data
* surveys.
contacted so System
far numbers;-managed
390 by
Educational
parliamentary statistics
election?" personnel
"Will you 35 field activists interviewed 2,100 youth chosen
data, disaggregated
quality;text
information
would
participate 3) news
inonthe
data peace by
surveys:partners per 100-1,000 (monthly)
collection
upcoming location. committee ofstatistically
10 youth100
4. Email responses;-
according to leaders.
accurate random
Qualitative
region
Multiplewith
instrument
election" "Do free
contact
from
choice youtext
web responses
and
expect
needs support
server
theto 100-1,000 200 pilot users
5. Websitetechniques
sampling as of Apr.
registrations;- 2010
and 140
weighting (done by
information
school
upcoming
assessment head teachers
electoral
surveys. process
Topics be 100-1,000
on thetofield 6. Submitted
third party expert Initiatives in the website;-
statisticians) - random84, sample
who
fair?"have
include: their mobile
Training needs, phone
resource 1,000-10,000 representing
150 youth 18-30
female community years in
leaders ofNorthern
age in Jordan.
Iraqi
numbers
support needs.in the system. The 100-1,000 governorates
recipients would respond to the 1,000-10,000
customer satisfaction 1,600 (400 per quarter)
questionnaires and press send
N/A
button. The responses are then 1,000-10,000 1000
35 head interviews
teachersper andmonth- total 12,000
21statistics officersper
for
Qualitative
customer and quantitative
satisfaction (recurring monthly) annum
fetched from their mobile Ghana Education Service demonstrated how
responses to 8-10 questions
customer satisfaction
applications unto the server in the 1,000-10,000 2,000 interviews
mobile phones are used for school-based data
about
customer the satisfaction
quality of the electoral 100-1,000 1000 (200 per quarter)
District/Regional/National offices Under 100 gathering. They also assessed the new system
process observed. Voter turnout
for educational
Weekly pupil and planning. (recurring) as compared to the existing methods.
data reported at 3teacher
intervals during
attendance
election day.reports from 100
Referendum results N/A
100-1,000 (recurring
schools
Pre-election
data used to incident based weekly)
reporting,
project result 100 schools
election
using day reporting
parallel TBD
vote tabulation 100-1,000
methodology.
SMS messages, ready to report Under 100 200 observers
messages
Voter turnout, qualitative question N/A
responses,
Voter turnout, incident reports
qualitative and N/A
question 1276 observers, 51,000 messages sent / rec'd
results
responses,
Voter were
turnout, reported.
incident reports
qualitative and N/A
question including training day and EDay
results
responses,
Voter were
turnout, reported.
incident reports
qualitative and N/A
question
resultsturnout,
responses,
Voter wereincident
reported. reports
qualitative and 100-1,000
question 500 observers
results wereincident
responses, reported. reports and N/A
results were reported.
Voter turnout, qualitative question 1,000-10,000 1070 observers 5-6 reports
responses,
qualitative were N/A
question
reported.
responses,
qualitative and N/A
question
results
responses, incident reports were 1,000-10,000
were reported. 1003 observers
reported. N/A
TBD
Pre-election incident reporting, N/A
election day reporting TBD N/A
Jan 2010. We modified the Collect project from
Open Data Kit to fit some Haiti-specific
requirements, and made some slight
improvements in the Aggregate project as well.
[As of 2/2010] The Water Quality Reporter
Data ( map and description of The collection form was bilingual (English,
project has been operational in the different
1) Black carbon
AED location, including photo ) concentrations Creole) and conformed to the PFIF spec
districts for varying amounts time. In Hantam,
indoors
Public will
submitting be
received is fed back into captured
info on by zesty.ca/pfif/. (MAYBE: currently tracking 55100
where the project has been running for seven
Person
processing Finder images
help/food/water/shelter of filters
needed at TBD records:
3,573 http://haiticrisis.appspot.com/)
reports
smartphone apps : iPhone "AED months, sevensubmittedfield workers (2,218 have were SMS 742
submitted
installed
various
Nearby", in
sites
Droideach"ShowNearby
household. 1,000-10,000 reports)
All smartphone users ( currently iPhone and
Where was the sample taken, tests through
Data from more thethan WQReporter.
30,000 households In Chris Hani, already
Residents
AED" will take an image of N/A Droid
ODK ), more
Collect on
is the
being way
piloted for collecting
what was the quality of the water where
received the project
(another has
72,000 been
In 2008, almost 5000 observations were posted running
planned for for three
2010). As
the filter with their mobile phone 100-1,000 information from 50 farms and submitted
400 animals.
that day, how
Household surveyswas the and water months,
of April 11
2010, field a workers
total of have
75,000
by several thousand participants. This is 5X the records 193 test
and upload Market
Nutritional, it to a server prices,for cross 100-1,000 (pilot)
flowing
demonstrationthat dayattendance 10,000-100,000 results.
containing over half a
participation we had in 2007 and we expect million fields have been
analysistrade
border 2) Cooking
quantities, duration will
records
Species
Plant name,
be captured name, date,
by time, GPS,
connecting date, GPS
a (ongoing) captured. more from our efforts in 2009. The
significantly
programme
Child andtext monitoring,
Pregnancy Market
location,
phenophase,
temperature
price data, cross notes,
text
sensor and
notes, a
(installedandphoto.
trade,ona N/A current data collection for 2010 can be viewed
registrations.
photo. Birthborder and death 100-1,000 on the website.
the
food stove)
security to the headset
monitoring, jack on
reports. Malnutrition, fever In use past 9 months with 100+ chws. 9,500+
the phone.
purchase4progress, monitoring & TBD 30-60
Varies people in 2010; 500are people inlarge
2011(ex:
Free formdetails
(malaria),
Location questions
diarrhea, asked
immunization
(district, facility, childrenbyincountry system-insome population quiteof 60,000+
evaluation
anonymously
Free by anyone/general 10,000-100,000 Senegal
100-1,000 (recurring people.
In India there is nationwide)
are currently 5 stationary
reports, Question
facilityform
management. name) questions Maternal
session asked health
details Over 20,000+ nutrition 2,000+
eMOCHA
public
anonymously
including is flexible
antenatal by in theANC
anyone/general
care, type monthly) Boxes
malaria reports and 500+ acute malnutrition
(date, start time, end time, no. 2600 responses (one for each PMTCT session
and
public
visits,content
etc. CHW of data which is
management 1,000-10,000
10,000-100,000 diagnosis. Goal is tobyeventually register
respondents – male/female), held) were captured 60 facilitators, over a
utilized.
and We currently
performance have
indicators. (recurring) 100,000 children across 14 Millennium Villages.
topics
Structured discussed and material period starting in mid July 2009 and ending at
iterations indata collected as a
shown.
side-effect of prompting care 1,000-10,000 the endforms
25,000 of Septembersubmitted, 2009. though this includes a
development/deployment
Process data for program which 10,000-100,000
delivery
Epi and patient-level
Address
capture nutrition
andsurvey Mobile data, individual
Phone fair
-An bit
Pilotinitialof
has 500 test data
pilotVHTs looking in 100
at the Villages
use of monitoring
eMOCHA for an
Quantitative
management data is
For
case the
Numbers datapilot and
of inand
NearestGhana:
weekly
research
aggregates
Health 1,000-10,000 average
In January of 2009,
12,500 thehouseholds
pilot study was launched at
demographic/clinical
collected
Data
purposes. from
Collection We participants
is not data
collect data,
the primaryHIV
during
on HIV prevention is enrolling 1000 households
Registering
Facility as an pregnant
SMS mothers N/A three GMC sites in central Malawi.
risk
four screening
purposeface to
of the face information,
interviews.
project TBThe 100-1,000 -A proposed TB screening pilot will look at about
clientchildren
and background, under five.but history,
testing an
Approximately 30 health surveillance assistants,
case
surveys
ancillary
testing
Malaria finding
range
effect
outcomes,
diagnosis data, in
of lengthand
providing
return
and so fromforth.
of
treatment.better
test (recurring)
60 100-1,000 300
170 household
clinics contacts
in 2 Ugandan districts withdiploma
potential
Capturing
Location all
details encounters/visits,
(district, facility, typically holding a secondary school and
fields
Disease
quality
results,
ACT drug tomedical
more
Cases
and stocks. than
tracking services400. Each
for
ofdetails
health
Epidemological (recurring)
1,000-10,000 2000+
for clients Weekly
scale-up. so far, though report we anticipate
(consisting of were
4 text
deliveries,
facility name) deaths session of pregnant paid by the government for their services,
survey
mothers
seeking
surveillance.contains
and
behavior. infants bothinsensitive
Approximately rural540 (recurring daily) doubling or tripling thissince
in the next year.
woman
The
(date,
(e.g.
SMS and
start
Sexual
for children
Lifeend
time,
history)
pilotunder
and
was
time, no.as 100-1,000
non-
messages).
Pilot
givencoversa two-hour 14Ongoing
Community
training last
in Health
RapidSMS November
Compounds with
reporting.
clinics.
indicators. Data
well as general will be
clinical collected
healthpatient on (recurring)
workers Under 100 (ongoing) They high reporting
with about rates.
30 nurses. Catchment population
designed
respondents
sensitive
results
so that
of (E.g.
EID
– Demographic)
male/female),
teststheir tiedpersonal
to specific - pilot registered two hundred and ten childrenof
visits
in Tanzania
topics
Date and discussed used
location, and no. material
participant, nurses
1500
and to
outreach
tracked be filled
them report in
for shortly.
forms
a period haveof been
four captured
months
questions.
health clinics, Further,numbers medical of SMS In Zambia we are starting with 9 clinics and are
cell
shown.
type phone
of to send
activity, which a weekly
workshops 1,000-10,000 since
using mid June
RapidSMS. 2009.
During this period, total of 535
information
mothers (e.g. CD4
attending ante count,
and post baby talking with potential partners for quick
stock-count
Patient
were data
completed, message and about
verification anti- 100-1,000 unique
2400 data
responses sets were
have generated.
been submitted since
weightcare
natal andwomen TB relative
and results) are
Pregnant
malarial
details. medicine into alevels
Health (Health of expansion if the project is successful. --- In
August 2009.
collected
stock
condition,
HCT of
travels on
clinic the
Weight,
to medical
eachMobile
due supplies
home date) in Child 1,000-10,000 Malawi we are still in the scoping part of the
centralized database. Data centre
Researcher
tied
Health
Kenya to Maternal,
(Date
and platform
of
attempts Newborn
Birth, tohealth and
ascertain (recurring daily) We have
project but 1,200
therewomen is an initialenrolled in ourtostudy.
intention attempt
used by the banking industry in The pilot project collected 13,500 stock-level
Child
condition,
the Health.
HIV status
London, UK,weight,with of all MUAC,
people
guaranteed N/A to pilot
# of people
data in all
points from facilities
targeted in
129 720,000 the two
health facilities districts.
(Est Pregnant across three
vaccines
therein.
Reason Basic
availability, received,
for backup demographics
consultation, gender...)
and all theare Over 100,000
location women + Babies)
remote districts in in a year period
Tanzania over 21 weeks
Location,
also
normal collected,date,
fireaction assession
suppression, well as start
the and
standby 1,000-10,000 utilizing the
of patient, taken, projected Ramping upSMS to 60for Life application.
community healthcare
end
GPS time,
location
generators... no. male/female
of the home and (recurring weekly)
birth
Age,
Stock date
gender,
levels,(for follow-up
location,
interview income Under 100 (recurring workers, potential for 10 or more responses per
attendants,
any risk factors topics that dicussed,
may warrant TAC
notifications),
level, knowledge
information, etc. on
patientHosipital health
details topic, daily) day
80,000for each CHW
participants in Uganda in 2009, 5,000
specific questions,
immediate attention. Such factors HCT is tasked with visiting each home in the 2
marital
(symptoms,
Supplies, status.
cases,diagnosis activities,method, 10,000-100,000
specific 100-1,000 (recurring Data participants in Kenya
quarterly in 2009.
from 20-40 health in
specific questions,
include whether the Clinic
HCT millioncollected
person catchment on 106,520 patients
area of AMPATH. involved
treatment)
events, staff,
quesitons,
counselor and
feels locations,
whether
the survey contracts,
the quarterly) facilities.
There areSurvey
anti-retroviral currently contains
treatment about up
50 to
programs, 4,000
counselors 400records.
trained
using
surveys hasappears
session
respondent been verified ill or iswith a Over 100,00 CHW 45,000
Over
ODK personnel
in the field, responses
and in the withprocess
22 fieldsofhave gettingbeen
stamp or vaccines,
pregnant
Tracking signature.
and lacks medicines, ante-natal 10,000-100,000
Over 100,000 submitted
another 200 sincedevices mid July to Kenya 2008.for more
care.equipment supplied to rural (planned)
and counselors.
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period during scale-up of the project clinic sites
clinic staff, CHWs
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2010.
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CHWs
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have ante-natal care.
has picked it up on the Bi-Annual
monitoring of child health week. University
of Nairobi School of Community health
The proposed
exploring new project
possibility of using is itstill
onin a very
Weekly preliminary
enhancing community stage i.e. (development)
surveillance and
Stable and real time Wehave
we will evaluate
programme only just the effect aofproject
recruited mobile
phones
manager.
Plans to on I
offer:motivation,
anticipate
Family supervision
the
mobile project
module and
will start
for
Daily
data use/flow,
in a few
emergencies months measure
plan; under theguidance
the
Corporate costmobile of the
Good Very
Pilotedgood in 2007 - current status of
High. Skip-logic, required fields, and formatted Any organsisation
effectiveness
project
module manager. and
for emergencies At doing
potential similar
the moment
plan; itproject
work
for Early
scale could
up in
isalerts
not
fields are built in to each form to ensure clean unknown...?
use this
programs
possible EMIT
to solution
implementing
answer your on a smaller
integrated
specific or
questions
mobile module; Blood banks and vital
data. larger
as the scale.
community
resources SMS case
project
mobile management
is still inRoad
module; ofprotection
children
development
High - we arepneumonia
with malaria, working on a form builder to
stage.
mobile module; Traveller and diarrhoea.
protection mobile
facilitate the creation of surveys. We
High quality. Skip-logic, required fields, and module;
This projectExpedition
has been protection
successfully mobile
conduct training to build capacities scaled of
formatted fieldsisare built module
High - A mask used to in to the
limit the form to ensure up
type and from organizations
partner provincial to national in countries level,toand it
clean
valuesdata.that can be entered to reduce field entry could easily
facilitate the be scaledof
adoption upthe further.
technology for
errors. Answers to all question is mandatory to rapid surveys. ODK and KoBo are open
hasn't started being
avoid missing collected
questions, yet
and skipping pattern is seems
source,good
as well as the Android OS, which
automatic. allows for high level of customization.
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
several times an hour all week long codes.
Being evaluated Very good
High: Multiple choice/scaled menus reduce user High: Scale-up from 8,000 to 10,000 users
error
High: Multiple choice/scaled menus reduce user in process
High: as offrom
Scale-up Apr.1,200
2010.to 8,000 users
error in process as of Apr. 2010.
High High
Given that cross-network charges are
USSD
high, the option
CATIisfacilities
only available
need toinbe Kenya
and not in Uganda or Tanzania.
supported by a system that allows for The
USSD/SMS
same
Running network system
mobile calls. should
surveys havemultiple
A across
substantial been
up and running
number
languages by are
of farmers
presents Marchnot 2010
a unique but
available
challenge
Notes
there
during
of has
thebeen
scheduling delays
day (Calls
(phone fromtothe
switched
have be mobile
off) and
provider mainly
call backs have
scheduled because of the text
toll
to be rescheduled
by availability free for
options are not
early evening
interviewers that
- up
who tocommon.
speak9pm. It is
the various
difficult
languages).to pinpoint the language to use
for the SMS surveys in Uganda where
multiple languages are used as its
unclear as to how to establish which
language goes to which respondent.
We anticipate a low response rate for
the SMS/USSD surveys.
It is difficult to get lists of commercial
farmers and vet technicians as this is
built through
Quarterly referrals
surveys and customers
to bank a number of
them
who inare someunwilling
casestoare participate in voice
also the elite
surveys.
are not well
Findings arereceived
published asinsome
the local
customers
newspaperare andcalled multipleatimes
it generates lot of
interest
Although the surveys were supposed to

be 10 minutes, calls average 14
minutes.
Never deployed -- "Unfortunately, while
we produced a working application for
Android phones, we were not
successful in establishing partnerships
with any gov agencies, NGOs, or
international relief agencies in order to
get phones with the app loaded and into
the hands of volunteers on the ground."
Initial report/paper on project will be

public soon.
Very good
See the CMT case study at

http://www.emitmobile.co.za/case-
We use Solio solar chargers and car
studies/
chargers to be totally independend from
external power sources. Examples of
pilot projectcan be found on HRC
our reports
website.
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billion people

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Being evaluated Very good

Although the surveys were supposed to

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