Hi all!
My name is Chepkutwo Donald, I am from Kenya. I am currently studying towards a Phd program in Finance at Nairobi City. I was introduced to ODK a few months ago with my freelance consultant who is keen as myself in research work. Together with my colleague we intend to aggressively use ODK to help individuals and institutions carry out research work . We have basic skills on ODK but hopefully through the community we hope to learn more. I am happy to be part of this community and am excited to extend my use of ODK to other programs and projects in Kenya.
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Hi. just getting started with ODK software and looking to gain more knowledge.
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Hi everyone. I'm Anthony. My first introduction to ODK was as an undergraduate at the University of Washington many years ago, but after a stint away from academia and development, I'm currently a PhD student at Cornell. My recent work has been in Cameroon and New York in education. Nice to meet you all!
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Hi.
I am Frank.
I work as an epidemiologist at the Amsterdam Institute for Global Health and Development, which is a research institute embedded in the Academic Medical Center of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
I am involved in numerous research project, including large scale field studies in lower- and middel income countries.
ODK is for me the preferred tool to allow for off-lin data entry, something that is of extreme importance in field studies. So far, I have created rather straight-forward data entry screens for mobile phones.
I hope to expand my skills and make my design of database more efficient, and I hope to be able to share field experiences with ODK applications.
Greetings
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My name is Terence Mothers, Working with Land Tenure Rights in Africa developing GISs based on Open Source and creative commons licensed software
ODK has been the data collection method of choice and looking forward to getting stuck into ODK 2
I enjoy traveling and being based between UK and Mozambique get a lot of that... so far 4 continents this year and some of those twice.....
Glad to be here and hope to learn and streamline some of my processes
Cheers Terry
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Hello,
I am Craig Saunders, based in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.I am a partner in Quartex technologies. We have been using ODK since 2015 when we stumbled across the platform when asked to assist with some construction audits.
Since then we have run numerous projects including
Monitoring the construction of low cost housing
Toilet construction audits
Social satisfaction surveys
Environmental monitoring
Environmental audits
Asset management
Forestry stock reporting
We are ODK enthusiasts. We run our own ODK Aggregate instance with a Postgres database and have implemented our own presentation application for data validation, reporting and dashboards. We have also integrated ODK with some of our existing applications as well as client applications. ODK has changed our business model and has allowed us to add significant value for our clients and local community.
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Greetings everyone. I'm currently living in Tanzania as CTO of the Great African Food Company, connecting farmers to international markets. We provide training, high quality inputs, financing, and a guaranteed contracted price for the harvest. We have dedicated field staff throughout the country and work a lot with mobile data collection, and utilize this data for data analysis, finance automation, measuring impact, M&E, etc.
Prior to this I spent 20+ years in the high tech / mobile industry in USA, working for companies like Motorola, Google, and Lenovo. I have a PhD in Computer Engineering and have worked on many technology development projects, eventually becoming the head of software in Moto/Lenovo. In part of my career, I pushed our engagement on open source utilization and contributions and became the chair of their open source review board. Ever since that time, I've been a big fan of development in open source.
I recently decided it was time leave my corporate career, "give back", and join the fight on global poverty. My family and I moved to Tanzania in 2016 where I volunteer full time in this current role. When I joined, we were looking for a farm management system that we could integrate with our banking partner, and seriously considered building something around ODK. However, at the time, we were looking for more of a quick start, off the shelf complete solution since one of our large pilot seasons was about to begin. ODK 1 was a bit too limiting for our needs and ODK 2 seemed a bit nascent yet. Due to both time pressure and technical requirements, we chose a commercial solution. After two years and lots of custom development to augment it and make it useful for our needs, I've determined it is time to come back to reconsider ODK at our core.
I'm here to catch up on the latest developments, get to know you all, have some fun, and hope to start contributing toward the platform with my development skills combined with the experiences I've gained over the last few years of life in Africa. I'm looking forward to learning and hope I can be helpful!
->jvp
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Hi everyone!
I am from Nicaragua and I am currently providing technical assistance to improve a risk management platform. The platform involves different levels of implementation (from local to national) and ODK tools proved to be useful for collecting and delivering critical information. Focus of my work is on capacity building so I hope to contribute with good practices and methodologies to translate techological tools to actions, also want to learn more from you all!
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Hello 'thinkers', I am Jeffrey and I work with a private social research firm. I had my first experience with ODK late June this year. I was taught and introduced to it by the company and since then I have had a lot of interesting moments with ODK.
I am Ghanaian and from Navrongo precisely.
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Hi, I am Brian Shelton working for the Dept of Human Settlements, Western Cape Government, RSA, in Cape Town. We used ODK software to survey and GPS approx 700 structures in informal settlements. Over the next few months we are surveying another approx 2300 structures. I had to research and setup ODK Collect and Briefcase. A colleague setup "ODK Aggregate Appspot". This was in 2015 and I need to research whether we can still use that version or update, and how to determine which version we have. ODK is a new learning curve for an old guy like me!
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Hello everyone,
I am Roody, from Haiti. I've been using ODK for about three years, I use ODk collect for socio economics survey in Haiti.
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Hello my name is Daniel Alvarado, I'm from Colombia. Actually I'm using ODK for a course but I would like to know more about this useful tool in agriculture.
Thank you
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Hi all,
I'm Musaffa from Indonesia. Currently working in the health issues and using ODK to support the activity. I'm a ODK newbie who eager to learn and share the knowledge.
Thanks!
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Hi all,
I am Sergio, from Spain but I am currently based in Bukina Faso.
I am involved in Information Management projects for the Spanish Red Cross, and we use ODK as our main data collection tool.
I'll be happy to learn more from ODK community and share knowledge and experiences.
Thanks in advance,
Sergio
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Hey everyone, I'm a long time lurker and huge fan of this forum. My name is Nick Gordon and I'm the Digital Health Lead with Last Mile Health. lastmilehealth.org | @lastmilehealth
We are a health organization focused on remote populations that has used a custom fork of ODK Collect (Liberia ODK) in Liberia. Last Mile Health's and my ODK origin story started in 2015 during the Ebola crisis. We used ODK for decision support and data collection for Ebola screening in rural Liberian communities. It's now being used as a digital health platform for Liberia's Community Health Assistant Program. These health assistants use ODK for data collection and decision support for essential health services. Last Mile Health has also used it for enumerating research surveys, rural GIS mapping, and project data collection.
Given that we work in very remote areas, we forked ODK Collect for offline data transfer and xForm updates between devices over Bluetooth. We also added a form back-up archive, in case forms were lost during transfer. Currently, we're testing a modification that uses case management and on-device data reporting. I've been told that it's uncommon that we design our forms in CommcareHQ, and tweak the output XML documents before packaging for Bluetooth transfer.
Sorry our fork isn't well documented, but for anyone interested, here's our Git: https://github.com/Last-Mile-Health/ODK-Liberia
Personally, I'm from Utah but have spent most of my adult life traveling and working internationally. I've managed a handful of ICT4D projects and enjoy designing xForms. Outside of data collection, I'm crazy about traveling, coffee, keyboard shortcuts, and an old game called Age of Empires 2.
I've seen the ODK toolkit have an enormous impact across different global development programs. I'm very appreciative of this community, and it's hard to imagine our work or the field of digital health coming so far without it.
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Hi, I´m from Costa Rica, work at a Goverment Institution who coodinate and support the Emergency Attention. We´re trying to develop a data collection program using ODK 2.0 for the emergency decision making.
We fully install and configure ODK v1 something like this, but the project was never implemented and now we have another impulse to make this happen.
Greetings from Costa Rica.
David
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Hi, I am Tiana from Guatemala, currently working as backstop support for USAID-funded projects in different countries. I just started using ODK build and am interested in learning more about the software.
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Hi All;
I am Sakina from Afghanistan. Currently working as Sr. System Development Specialist in NSIA. I just started using ODK 2 before working with the first version to build a household form for NSIA.
I will be glad to have your support to help me build the form with ODK 2.
Thank you
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