Posts Tagged ‘data collection’

ODK Collect v1.1 Released

October 22nd, 2009 by Yaw Anokwa

Open Data Kit (ODK) is an open-source mobile data collection toolkit for the citizen science, public health, and environmental monitoring.

ODK developers (and Change members), Yaw Anokwa and Carl Hartung have just released ODK Collect v1.1, an Android client which renders a form, survey, or algorithm into prompts that support complex logic, input constraints, repeating questions, and multiple languages.

Some of the new features include barcode scanning, image/audio/video capture and playback, editing of saved forms, and device metadata (phone number, IMEI, IMSI) support.

Read the release announcement or watch the video below for more.

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Justin Steventon on CyberTracker

October 14th, 2009 by Yaw Anokwa

This Thursday at Change, Justin Steventon will be presenting on his exciting work with CyberTracker.

Climate change, pollution, habitat destruction and loss of biodiversity may have serious impacts on human welfare. To anticipate and prevent negative impacts will require ongoing long-term monitoring of all aspects of the environment.

Our vision is to enable people to be part of a worldwide environmental monitoring network. Our mission is to help you improve environmental monitoring by increasing the efficiency of data gathering and to improve observer reliability.

CyberTracker is a software application which allows illiterate and low-literate people to capture rich data about their environment.

What: Justin Steventon on CyberTracker
When: Thursday, October 15 at Noon
Where: UW, Paul Allen Center, Room 403

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