HSW

The Human Sensor Web (HSW) was implemented in Zanzibar by the Zanzibar Water Authority (ZAWA) with two local partners: Zantel, the mobile telephone company partly owned by the Government of Zanzibar and Inet, a local Internet Service Provider. HSW is a part of the h2.0 initiative of Google.org and UN-Habitat.

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FLOW

Upande is currently providing a FLOW implementation in Kenya for SNV and happy to advise on any potential applications for your needs.

Water For People has invested in the development of a powerful data gathering and project monitoring tool known as FLOW (Field Level Operations Watch). FLOW uses questionnaires loaded onto an Android smartphone, linking to a powerful online database.

 

  

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Open Data Kit

Open Data Kit (ODK) is a free and open-source set tools which help organizations author, field, and manage mobile data collection solutions. ODK provides an out-of-the-box solution for users to:

  • Build a data collection form or survey;
  • Collect the data on a mobile device and send it to a server;
  • and Aggregate the collected data on a server and extract it in useful formats.
Upande provides services either in customised forms for data collection, as well as highly customised ODK applications tailored for your organisations' needs.

In addition to socio-economic and health surveys with GPS locations and images, ODK is being used to create decision support for clinicians and for building multimedia-rich nature mapping tools. See featured deployments and list of tools for more examples of what the ODK community is doing. We welcome and encourage participation from the user community. 

Episurveyor

EpiSurveyor is another popular smart phone based data collection tool that can be highly customised and runs on different platforms. Upande is able to offer services in collecting data using this platform or advise on what platform is best for your specific needs.