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11 Ways to Avoid Bias in Mobile Data Collection
Bias is often hard to see and can take time to recognize. However, careful review of a survey and all its questions can help you significantly reduce bias and increase the power of your data. Here's how.
Staff Blog
December 10, 2018
How to Prepare and Introduce a New Mobile Data Collection App Feature to Your Team
Scoping the proper process and actually designing the feature itself is no small task. But as always, the job is not done. The next step is making sure the feature works and hasn’t disrupted any functionality in your app. Then, it’s time to introduce it to your team. Learn how from an experienced Dimagi project manager.
Staff Blog
December 5, 2018
How to Add a New Feature to an Existing Mobile Data Collection App
Building a new feature or functionality into an already developed solution can be a formidable task. It’s easier than expected to overlook the importance of your data needs or to overreach and build something that actually hurts your product and your users. This is our advice to guide you through the process of scoping and adding a new feature to your existing mobile data collection app.
Staff Blog
November 27, 2018
How to Do Usability Testing on Your Mobile Data Collection App
We might empathize with our users, understand their workflows, and think we know how to simplify the app to make it usable, but ultimately, we aren’t them. Learn how to employ usability testing to collect actionable feedback from the people who will use your app every day.
Staff Blog
November 20, 2018
How to Design a Mobile Data Collection App for Scale
Learn how Terre des hommes updated the structure of their mobile data collection app to support over 4,000 healthcare workers treating 180,000 young children in 700 clinics across Burkina Faso.
Dimagi Partner Blog
November 15, 2018
4 Content Design Tips for Mobile Data Collection Apps from Save the Children
On a project with Save the Children Kenya to build a mobile data collection application for over 1,200 Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) in Bungoma County, we grappled with the issue of taking existing forms and government indicators and transforming them into a coherent, efficient service delivery and data collection app. These are the issues we faced and how you can overcome them in your own project.
Dimagi Partner Blog
November 13, 2018
Four Serious Maintenance Issues in Mobile Data Collection Apps
Mobile data collection apps are not done when you hand them off to your users. They will require monitoring and follow-up to ensure they continue to run smoothly. Here are four common issues we see with the maintenance of these apps.
Staff Blog
October 23, 2018
Dimagi Presents at Government of India Seminar on Technology for Service Delivery
Dimagi and India's Ministry of Women and Child Development have launched the largest e-nutrition and health program in the world, with 110,000 frontline workers reaching 9.5 million beneficiaries across seven states in India. Dimagi CEO Jonathan Jackson recently attended a tech summit to support these efforts.
Staff Blog
October 18, 2018
Four Common Pitfalls in Mobile Data Collection Program Deployment
Looking at the many issues our partners have faced in the deployment of their programs over the years, we have learned a lot about common obstacles and how to mitigate them. Here are the four pitfalls we see most often.
Staff Blog
October 16, 2018