Dear Colleagues,
Greetings from Tech For Development-T4D.
We are an international tech consultancy and capacity building firm that offers tech and capacity building solutions to individuals, institutions and development agencies in Africa and across the world. We work to help development agencies, SMEs, individuals and institutions design, develop, deploy and manage software solutions such as mobile applications, information systems and web based systems.
We also offer training and capacity building in Mobile based Data Collection applications development and management.
Most of individuals in the Health sector know what Open Data Kit is but might not know it’s importance or how it relates to ODK. Today we would like to take this opportunity to inform all members on the same in a nutshell.
In April 2011, New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (NYC DOHMH, @nycHealthy) partnered with InSTEDD (@InSTEDD) to begin work on a project called ECHO: Electronic Communication for Health Operations. ECHO’s goal was to help NYC DOHMH improve the ability of their Community Outreach Teams (COT) to gather emergency preparedness and response-related data in the field.
These Community Outreach Teams teams deploy into local communities in order to share information as well as capture location-based data from those communities. The goal of the ECHO project was to support the COT teams by allowing them to create and fill out electronic surveys on a handheld devices and then transmit that information back to the Emergency Operations Center for analysis — in near real-time.
Now, in situations that require an investigation (such as a potential disease outbreak) these teams will be able to create survey based forms and push them out to a team of people who each has their own tablets. The team will then collect answers to the survey by interviewing affected communities, and push them back to the server where they will later be able to export it to a Geographical Information System (GIS) tool.
In relation to the information above you can view our Mobile Based Data Collection Course Events here.
Do not hesitate to contact us for more details that you may need.
Contact Information
Tel: +254 706909947
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Website: www.t4d.co.ke
Warm regards.
Zak Kinyanjui.
Digital and Customer Relations Officer(T4D).