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Group Complete

Posted by radicaldynamic on Apr 06, 2011

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Group Complete data sheet 3362 Views

Website for the Tool:

http://www.groupcomplete.com

Organization that developed the Tool:

Radical Dynamic

Main Contact:

Matt Adams

Problem or Need:

Whether in the developing world or the business sector, the majority of mobile data collection efforts parallel the processes set down by their largely paper-based predecessors. In traditional data collection systems information is collected from a variety of sources, funnelled to a single point and eventually compiled, sorted and (hopefully) acted upon. In many cases this workflow meets the basic needs of data consumers and in some cases is preferable.

Let's consider some of the challenges posed by traditional one-way data collection systems.

The people performing data collection (usually referred to as "mobile workers") don't have access to the wealth of raw information available to data consumers. This makes mobile workers outsiders to the big picture and lessens their potential contributions to the overall data collection effort.
Solutions pull collected data into a black hole: once it's submitted there's very little the mobile worker can do to access it for review or to make corrections.
Implementations often force knowledgeable team members to work in a void. If data cannot be easily and seamlessly shared between team members collaborative efforts will be impeded and their overall effectiveness reduced.
When team members cannot "see" what others in the group are doing, the chances of double-entry and redundant information are all the more likely.
When aggregated data finally returns to mobile workers it is often severely outdated.
Solutions are not really mobile if they require workers to access desktops or laptops to complete tasks essential to the data collection process. This is also true if the tools make it impossible to take pertinent portions of the data set with them for online & offline use.

Main Contact Email :

support@groupcomplete.com

Brief Description:

Group Complete has coupled the power and open architecture of Open Data Kit and XForms standards with CouchDB to provide a mobile and real-time collaborative data collection platform.

Tool Category:

App resides and runs on a mobile phone

App resides and runs on a server

Is a web-based application/web service

Key Features :

Share collected data between mobile team members and data consumers in real-time
Allow team members to collaborate on data entry and review collected data, regardless of their locations
Reduce double entry, increase team cooperation and still employ more traditional workflows when needed
Perform all of the major functions of data collection on a smartphone (form building, data entry & export)
Use Group Complete Mobile to work offline
Integrate with Open Data Kit and XForms workflows

Main Services:

Voting, Data Collection, Surveys, and Polling

Location-Specific Services and GIS

Mobile Social Network/Peer-to-peer

Information Resources/Information Databases

Display tool in profile:

Yes

Tool Maturity:

Currently deployed

Release Date:

2011-03

Platforms:

Android

Linux/UNIX

Current Version:

0

Program/Code Language:

Java/Android

Javascript

Other

Organizations Using the Tool:

n/a

Number of Current End Users:

100-1,000

Number of current beneficiaries:

100-1,000

Support Forums:

http://www.groupcomplete.com/help

support@groupcomplete.com

Languages supported:

English (multi-lingual capable)

Handsets/devices supported:

All versions of Android 2.2, 2.3 and 3.x supported. Support for Android 2.1 coming soon.

Is the Tool's Code Available?:

No

Is an API available to interface with your tool?:

No

Global Regions:

Asia

Australia and Oceania

Central America and the Caribbean

Europe

Middle East and North Africa

North America

South America

Sub-Saharan Africa

Featured?:

Yes

Featured on homepage?:

No

Cohort Mobile Lite

Posted by AnneryanHeatwole on Oct 22, 2010

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Cohort Mobile Lite data sheet 3039 Views

Website for the Tool:

http://www.partners-intl.net/c...

Organization that developed the Tool:

Partners International

Main Contact:

R. Aaron La Mer

Problem or Need:

The main problem is field staff unable to view and edit activity and indicator data when working in geographic areas with low or no internet connectivity. Without consistent data entry from field staff, reporting and project management loses its effectiveness. Cohort Mobile Lite provides field staff with a tool to manage workplan and results data to contribute to the collaboration on enterprise project portfolio management.

Main Contact Email :

alamer@partners-intl.net

Brief Description:

Cohort Mobile Lite runs on Windows mobile devices and provides workplan (activity and task) as well as results (indicators) management functions. Cohort Mobile Lite works with Cohort Mobile, the offline edition, and Cohort Central, the web-based enterprise edition, to provide a complete project management environment for international development, humanitarian assistance, and relief organizations. Cohort Mobile Lite is a scaled-down version of our enterprise software; this application allows field staff to enter and view project data without consistent internet connectivity.

Tool Category:

App resides and runs on a mobile phone

Key Features :

Workplan management
Results management
Integration with enterprise application

Main Services:

Voting, Data Collection, Surveys, and Polling

Tool Maturity:

Under development/pre-launch

Platforms:

Windows Mobile

Current Version:

1

Program/Code Language:

.NET Compact Framework

Organizations Using the Tool:

EngenderHealth
American Refugee Committee
International Planned Parenthood Fed.

Number of Current End Users:

None/not deployed yet

Number of current beneficiaries:

Under 100

Languages supported:

English, any left-to-right non-script language

Handsets/devices supported:

Any handset that runs Windows Mobile

Is the Tool's Code Available?:

No

Is an API available to interface with your tool?:

Yes

Countries:

United States

IQSMS

Posted by bobjay on Oct 20, 2010

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IQSMS data sheet 3313 Views

Website for the Tool:

http://www.iqstrategy.net

Organization that developed the Tool:

Futures Group

Main Contact:

Bobby Jefferson.

Problem or Need:

Tanzania MOH and donors introduced reporting requirements for PMTCT (preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS) facilities to submit monthly reports to the district and regional levels for progam monitoring and decision making. Futures Group is responsible for collecting reports from PMTCT facilities across four regions. Sites are remote and there is no Internet, and no computers.

To meet the technical and budgetary challenges we developed IQSMS, an open source, freely available SMS reporting tool monitoring and evaluation data collection, to enable facilites to report on PMTCT indicators. IQSMS is used to track program activities at PMTCT sites in rural Tanzania using basic SMS mobile phone technology.

Main Contact Email :

bjefferson@futuresgroup.com

Brief Description:

IQSMS is a freely available, software using SMS data in a predetermined format. Information is sent to a dedicated central laptop connected to Motorola mobile phones. The IQSMS software aggregates incoming SMS reports into an SQL database. Automated data quality checks, business rules and immediate notifications are sent to users ensuring that only validated data is added to the database. Aggregated PMTCT data is instantly available to district, regional and national managers based on role views.

FINALIST AND HONORABLE MENTION IN STOCKHOM CHALLENGE AWARD 2010

International Quality Short Message Services focus on development and implementation of a software technology that uses mobile phone to report data to a dedicated centralized computer. This will help coordinating medical care in various part of Tanzania. It is a project with great impact and potential for transferability particularly as the costs of telecom tend to decline with volume. It is a case of e-health, more clearly mobile e-health. International Quality Short Message Services makes health services available. a service which must be recognized. Congratulations.

Tool Category:

Resides and runs on a computer with tethered modem or mobile phone

Key Features :

The software uses SMS data in a predetermined format, sent to a dedicated central laptop connected to a Motorola mobile phone. The IQSMS software records incoming SMS reports into an SQL database. Automated data quality checks, business rules and immediate notifications are sent to users ensuring that only validated data is added to database. Aggregated PMTCT data is instantly available to district, regional and national managers based on role views.

IQSMS has reduced the time and costs associate with traveling to 535 facilities for data reporting, eliminated need to aggregate paper reports, reduced the need for expensive equipment, improved compliance in monthly reporting and has inspired confidence by rural healthcare workers that their results were accurately reported.

For the period from Jan –Dec 2009, 9867 total reports were submitted and 9400 reports were successfully validated. As the project takes advantage of mobile phones already owned by health workers, the training requirements are relatively low.

Main Services:

Information Resources/Information Databases

Tool Maturity:

Currently deployed

Release Date:

2009-12

Platforms:

All phones -- SMS

Current Version:

1.3

Program/Code Language:

C/C++

Organizations Using the Tool:

PMTCT facilities providing services to all mothers, fathers and children to infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. The plan is to scale up to include more PMTCT sites supported by AIDSRelief, the NGO we work with. The IQSMs has been demonstrated to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare and we are thinking of introducing the system to other regions not supported by AIDSRelief.

Number of Current End Users:

100-1,000

Number of current beneficiaries:

100-1,000

Languages supported:

English, Swahili

Is the Tool's Code Available?:

Yes

Is an API available to interface with your tool?:

Yes

Countries:

Tanzania

Acquee

Posted by roklenardic on Aug 30, 2010

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Website for the Tool:

http://acquee.com

Organization that developed the Tool:

Nautiloos Inc

Main Contact:

Rok Lenardic

Problem or Need:

Design forms and collect various types of data using mobile devices without having to install software.

Main Contact Email :

rok@nautiloos.com

Brief Description:

Acquee.com is a SaaS offering of survey/form designer + mobile portal where data can be collected online. No software installation is required on the desktop or mobile side. It is a web based mobile data collection service designed for use with modern mobile devices.

Tool Category:

Is a web-based application/web service

Key Features :

Unlimited forms, pages and fields
Upload custom Excel or CSV lists
Fully exportable results
No software installation required
Compatible with all recent mobile devices
Optimized mobile user interface
10 different input field types
Quick entry using barcode scanning

Main Services:

Voting, Data Collection, Surveys, and Polling

Display tool in profile:

Yes

Tool Maturity:

Currently deployed

Platforms:

Android

Blackberry/RIM

Mac/Apple/iPhone

Symbian/3rd

Windows Mobile

All phones/Mobile Browser

Program/Code Language:

Python

Number of Current End Users:

Under 100

Support Forums:

forge.acquee.com

Languages supported:

English

Handsets/devices supported:

http://forge.acquee.com/projects/acquee

Is the Tool's Code Available?:

No

Is an API available to interface with your tool?:

Yes

Global Regions:

Europe

Nokia Data Gathering

Posted by PrabhasPokharel on Aug 09, 2010

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Nokia Data Gathering data sheet 5395 Views

Website for the Tool:

http://www.nokia.com/corporate...

Organization that developed the Tool:

Nokia

Main Contact:

Sanna Eskelinen

Problem or Need:

Mobile phones are great data collection tools because they are highly portable devices with the ability to connect to a network for transferring data. When they include GPS devices and cameras, they are also a way to provide digital data in the form of pictures and location of data collection that can be a helpful addition to the data.

Nokia Data Gathering addresses the need of a simple-to-use data gathering platform that is integrated with server side software. The handset client can run on Nokia E61, E61i, E63, E71 and E72 handsets. Nokia Data Gathering code was recently changed to an open source license.

Main Contact Email :

sanna.eskelinen@nokia.com

Brief Description:

Nokia Data Gathering provides two pieces of software:

Server-side software that lets users create surveys that can be sent to the mobile phones.
Mobile phone software that can download the exact surveys, allow data collectors to fill them out, and send back to the server where the surveys were created. The survey responses can include camera and GPS data when available.
Servier-side software to analyze the data that comes back in from mobile phones, and GUIs (graphical user interfaces) to manage devices, survey creation, as well as data analysis.

Tool Category:

App resides and runs on a mobile phone

App resides and runs on a server

Key Features :

The survey creator offers:

The editor panel in the server enables the creation of questionnaires. The editor enables the following types of question responses: numeric, date, multiple choice (choose one or more), exclusive choice (choose only one), image and free text.
Creating trigger questions is supported as well. For example, if a respondent is asked whether they own a car, a positive response may trigger further questions asking them what type of car, whether it is insured and so on. A negative reply will skip these questions to save time. When a questionnaire has been finalized, it can be sent to the field personnel (read more from the Mobile Phone module section).

The handset application offers:

Use of data network for transmission. The data network can range from GPRS to Wi-Fi, and collected data is stored on a memory card in the phone before transfer. Memory card data can also be transferred by uploading the data from a PC or even by mailing the memory card itself.
The Mobile Phone Module runs Java Micro Edition (Java ME), which means it can be ported to any mobile phone that runs Java. However, the software is optimized for the Nokia E61, E63, E71, and E72 phones.
When available, the application incorporates GPS data. The camera can also be utilized when a survey field response-type is an Image.

Other features include:

Data transfer between client and server is encrypted.

Main Services:

Voting, Data Collection, Surveys, and Polling

Location-Specific Services and GIS

Stand-alone Application

Tool Maturity:

Currently deployed

Platforms:

Symbian/3rd

Program/Code Language:

Java

Organizations Using the Tool:

Amazonas State Health Department and Health Vigilance Foundation (Brazil), Foundation human nature (Ecuador), Department of Agriculture and WWF (Phillippines), CMI (Crisis Management Initiative) (Liberia), World Vision Indonesia.

Support Forums:

https://projects.forum.nokia.com/ndg/discussion

http://extindt01.indt.org/mailman/listinfo/ndg

Languages supported:

English, Spanish, Portugese (on Server), Any language supported by Mobile Handset.

Handsets/devices supported:

E61, E61i, E63, E71, E72, possibly other J2ME based devices.

Is the Tool's Code Available?:

Yes

URL for license:

https://projects.forum.nokia.com/ndg/browser/LICENSE.txt

Is an API available to interface with your tool?:

Yes

Countries:

Brazil

Ecuador

Indonesia

Liberia

Philippines

VoxPilot VoxBuilder

Posted by StephanieMilbergs on Jun 02, 2010

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VoxPilot VoxBuilder data sheet 3393 Views

Website for the Tool:

http://www.developer.com/voice...

Organization that developed the Tool:

VoxPilot

Main Contact:

Sales

Problem or Need:

Provides users with a VoiceXML hosting solution on a remote VoiceXML gateway.

Main Contact Email :

sales@voxpilot.com

Brief Description:

VoxBuilder ODE (Online Development Environment) is a hosted VoiceXML Platform which allows developers to host/test VoiceXML-based Applications on a remote VoiceXML gateway. Similar to other web-based VoiceXML development platforms, such as Tellme Studio, BeVocal etc., voxBuilder provides an external VoiceXML gateway and a configuration application to connect live telephony numbers/extensions with the VoiceXML-based telephony applications. voxPilot provides the environment free for the initial design and development. The application can then be deployed within Europe for a fee. VoxBuilder supports testing of VoiceXML applications from multiple countries by providing local numbers.

Tool Category:

Is a web-based application/web service

Key Features :

A key feature of voxBuilder is that the development environment supports both Text-to-Speech and Speech Recognition in multiple languages. Currently supported languages include Danish, English, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. voxBuilder's support for multiple languages is based on an extension attribute "xml:lang" (similar to VoiceXML 2.0) which is applied to the following VoiceXML 1.0 tags - <grammar>, <prompt> and <vxml>.

Main Services:

Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

Display tool in profile:

Yes

Tool Maturity:

Currently deployed

Platforms:

Other

Program/Code Language:

Other

Languages supported:

European languages, English

Is the Tool's Code Available?:

Yes

Is an API available to interface with your tool?:

No

Global Regions:

Europe

North America

Managing News

Posted by PrabhasPokharel on May 04, 2010

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Managing News data sheet 5502 Views

Website for the Tool:

http://managingnews.com

Organization that developed the Tool:

Development Seed

Main Contact:

Alex Barth

Problem or Need:

A large amount of news and information is produced around various events and topics. Mapping and visualization can be useful ways to track this content. There is a need for tools that allow users to search and track news and information, and republish some of that news and information. Both the back-end and front-end systems allow for mapping and visualization of that information.

Main Contact Email :

info@developmentseed.org

Brief Description:

Managing News originated as a news aggregation and republishing platform heavily integrated with RSS/Atom. Users can track a diverse set of RSS/Atom feeds, visualize them, and republish selected reports on a platform that allows for mapping and pluggable visualizations. Managing News has subsequently added SMS functionality to the system. The system is based on Drupal, and integrates several open source projects including OpenLayers, SimplePie, and many Drupal plug-ins.

Tool Category:

App resides and runs on a server

Key Features :

Aggregate RSS/Atom news
Republish news as RSS/Atom in customizable channels, or directly to Facebook, Twitter, or email.
Show news as list, map, timeline graphs, or visualized in other ways.
Search news.
Integrate SMS input with SlingshotSMS.
Configurable location tagging and mapping.

Main Services:

Location-Specific Services and GIS

Information Resources/Information Databases

Tool Maturity:

Currently deployed

Platforms:

Linux/UNIX

Mac/Apple/iPhone

Windows

Current Version:

1

Program/Code Language:

PHP

Organizations Using the Tool:

United States federal government, National Democratic Institute, Drupal. See the examples page.

Support Forums:

http://managingnews.com/contact

http://drupal.org/project/managingnews

Reviews/Evaluations:

http://mobileactive.org/howtos/mapping-sms-incident-reports-review-ushahidi-and-managing-news

Is the Tool's Code Available?:

Yes

URL for license:

http://managingnews.com/bsd-license

Is an API available to interface with your tool?:

Yes

Countries:

Afghanistan

United States

Rebtel

Posted by blixt on Jan 12, 2010

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Rebtel data sheet 11549 Views

Website for the Tool:

http://www.rebtel.com

Organization that developed the Tool:

Rebtel

Main Contact:

Patric Blixt

Problem or Need:

Help people to make international calls at low-cost/for free.

Main Contact Email :

patric.blixt@rebtel.com

Brief Description:

By using local numbers and relaying them through VOIP Rebtel can offer people low-cost international calls. The only cost for the user will be for calling a local number. Rebtel is busy launching SMS functions for free or low cost also.

Tool Category:

Is a web-based application/web service

Key Features :

Enables low-cost international calls.

Main Services:

Mobile Social Network/Peer-to-peer

Display tool in profile:

Yes

Tool Maturity:

Currently deployed

Release Date:

2010-01

Platforms:

Mac/Apple

Windows

Windows Mobile

All phones -- SMS

All phones -- Voice

All phones/Mobile Browser

Program/Code Language:

Java/Android

Objective C/iPhone

Organizations Using the Tool:

We are currently working with Hand-in-Hand to be able to develop better communications for people in need.

Number of Current End Users:

Over 100,000

Number of current beneficiaries:

Over 100,000

Support Forums:

http://getsatisfaction.com/rebtel

Languages supported:

English, Spanish, French, Polish

Handsets/devices supported:

All handsets though m.rebtel.com.

Is the Tool's Code Available?:

Yes

Is an API available to interface with your tool?:

Yes

Global Regions:

Asia

Australia and Oceania

Central America and the Caribbean

Europe

Middle East and North Africa

North America

South America

Sub-Saharan Africa

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