Hi. My name is Russ Klein. I am Director of Innovation and Research at Sensi Tech Hub in Freetown Sierra Leone (www.sensi-sl.org), a non-profit organization serving as the only co-working space and promoter for entrepreneurship in one of the poorest countries on Earth. I have recently "inherited" responsibility for a fork of ODK which has been customized to collect education history data about the youth population in rural parts of this country and elsewhere in Sub-Saharan Africa, where there is often no Internet connectivity.
I am a software engineer but I have never before worked with ODK. Some of my data collection workers in the field have reported a few problems with the implementation and I am looking to hire a short-term contractor who can take a look at the configuration and the code and help correct the problems. We are not trying to do anything fancy, just use the basic functionality native to the ODK platform. I will post the TOR separately in the correct section of this forum but welcome any offers from anyone here who has interest and expertise.
Hi! I'm from Guatemala. I've been using ODK since a couple of years ago for monitoring and evaluation of sustainable development projects with small coffee producers, but recently I found this forum . I wish I had found it before. Anyone else here is from Guatemala?.
Hola! Soy de Guatemala. He usado ODK desde hace un par de años para monitoreo y evaluación de proyectos de desarrollo sostenible con pequeños productores de café, pero recién encontré este foro. . Ojalá lo hubiera encontrado antes. Hay alguien más aquí de Guatemala?
Hello Colleagues,
I'm Maximilian from Nigeria. I've been using ODK for over a year now, especially for surveys and outbreak responses in Nigeria. It's really a wonderful tool to use. I came across this forum while looking for answers to questions on particular aspects of xls forms that have been bugging me for a while. I hope to learn a lot from everyone in this forum
I'm Anova from India. I am currently working with a non-profit in Pune that works on sanitation infrastructure in urban informal settlements. They were already using KoboToolbox but without realising its extended funtionalities using XLSForm code. I have just started tinkering with the forms to introduce certain codes to make them a little more efficient and have frequent questions about functionalities that we need. Hope we get the help we need here. Expecting to learn a lot from here
Hi My name is Keith Gray and I am based in the UK. I have just started using ODK to help us collect data for a research project on dementia in Tanzania.
Hello,
I'm Jesse in Dallas, Texas, USA. I work at a non-profit that partners with researchers collecting data to measure food insecurity across the local area. The research team selected ODK to gather and build data reports from multiple locations using tablets. In the near future, the responsibility of managing data collection will transition to the non-profit so I'm excited to learn from those who have experience with the product and complimentary software and vendors. I look forward to learning from you all.
My name is Matt Weatherford and I work at a social science research center https://csde.washington.edu housed within the college of Arts and Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA.
I've been a systems guy most of my career, but have a formal Computer Science background. I like to fiddle around with complex hardware and software systems - preferably in interdisciplinary teams of smart people that like to bounce ideas and theories around and think out loud.
Im brand new to the ODK world - my only exposure to it being through a couple of amazing colleagues ( Paul Macharia and Matt Dunbar ) who are working on an in-the-field data collection project in Kenya.
Paul runs ODK servers there and I'll be working on providing a back-up ODK server at the UW to fail over to in case of unforseen issues in-country. I intend to try the gumroot odk OVM virtual machine template - will be importing it in to our VMware ESXi environment.
Im generally a unix person - I started out working on the old SunOS systems back in the 1990's and eventually migrated to Solaris. In 2000 I converted myself to a linux guy and am most familiar with Debian Linux - we run lots of production debian. Latest projects have included cross-institution federated login with shibboleth/incommon, rstudio servers, linux-> google drive integration, and others.
Lastly, it is amazingly great to see all the interesting & world changing work people are doing with the ODK platform - what a force for good!
Hi. I'm from Zimbabwe, a typical ODK user for data collection both routine and survey health data. I have only recently been using ODK about 3 years and i'm here to learn a lot more about how we can improve efficiency for routine data collection and reporting.
Hi, I am Monica from Uganda, I am an epidemiologist and PhD student at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical medicine. I stumbled on ODK in 2015 and have since used it to collect data for HIV prevention projects in Uganda. I will be using it in my PhD project as well.
I am haitian and i am based in Haiti.I am a statistician and i am working as data analyst, i have been working on survey (form programing with ODK) since a couple of month. When i'm not engaged in data collection i like learning new statiscal software,reading and playing music.
It's a pleasure for me to join the community,i hope i will learn from its member and also i hope i can share my view (as limited as it can be) with anyone who would want it.
My name is Alemu. I am from Ethiopia working as an ICT and Knowledge Manager for a non-profit research organization called OSSREA (Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern and Southern Africa). I learned about ODK from a project here in Ethiopia. The project uses ODK to collect and manage health data. I have been using Kobo for mobile data collection and management. I am currently configuring the ODK platform to collect data for an upcoming project. I can be found on Twitter @cyberalex. I like playing around with infographics, animated videos and mobile application development.
FUN FACTS: Do you know that the only country that has 13 months in its calendar is Ethiopia. The Ethiopian Calendar has 13 months of which 12 months comprise of 30 days each, and a 13th month at the end of the year called the intercalary month usually has 5 days and 6 days in a leap year.
. I wish I had found it before. Anyone else here is from Guatemala?.
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