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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.

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.

November 13, 2018

How to Unlock the Power of Feedback in Mobile Data Collection

Many features of mobile data collection are well known, from automatic form submissions for faster data collection to validation conditions for more accurate data. However, there is one feature whose benefits often go overlooked: feedback mechanisms.

September 25, 2018

Why Peace Corps Cameroon Is Leveraging Mobile Data Collection in the Fight Against HIV/AIDS

Peace Corps Cameroon volunteer D'Arcy Williams shares the challenges he had with old data collection process and successes his team experienced when they switched to a new mobile data collection tool for an HTC campaign during World AIDS Day 2017.

May 29, 2018

A New Mobile Data Collection App for Clubfoot Treatment with MiracleFeet

MiracleFeet, a mission-driven organization dedicated to the delivery of proper treatment for children born with clubfoot in low- and middle-income countries, describe the benefits of their CommCare-based CAST app and their plans for further deployment by mid-2019.

May 28, 2018

Digitizing Coffee Agronomy Training & Monitoring

Monitoring and reporting on three Coffee Agronomy Projects

December 15, 2017

Technology in the Hands of Midwives: Seeing the Impact of Our Work

Partner: Asociación Corazón del Agua

August 15, 2017

In the Classroom: Real Apps for Real Global Health

Event: Fifth Annual Mobile Health Showcase

July 27, 2017

mHealth to Reduce Child Mortality in Burkina Faso

[Video] Children’s aid 2.0: can digital technology save lives in Burkina Faso?

July 5, 2017

What’s Ahead for Mobile Data Collection in Agriculture?

Q&A with Jack Hetherington, Research Program Coordinator at the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)

June 15, 2017

Mobile Data Collection in Agriculture: RAID Hosts MAD Workshop

Project: Researchers in Agriculture for International Development (RAID) Hosted a Workshop on Mobile Acquired Data Apps

March 27, 2017

Tablet-based Community Health Intervention with Integrated Fingerprint Scanning

Management of unique identity in any electronic medical record (EMR) system or other longitudinal tracking systems can be a significant challenge, particularly in low resource environments.

December 7, 2016

Casa Flor Ixcaco: Using CommCare to Support Guatemalan Artisans

The blog post below is an interview ‎with Alana Marsili - a Management and Program Analyst at USAID.

November 27, 2016

Cyclical Poo-power Programme Supported by Data Management

The Safi Sana team using CommCare on their handheld devices.

November 27, 2016

Completing the Trifecta

The Partners in Health consultant team presenting their application to improve obstetric care in Chiapas Mexico.

August 3, 2016

From Mercy Corps: BUILT TO (IM)PROVE — Leveraging Realtime M&E

This article was published by John Skelton, former program manager at Mercy Corps. 

June 15, 2016

From Tostan: CommCare - A Custom Mobile Platform that is Changing the Face of Tostan’s Monitoring and Evaluation

This blog post was published by Tostan, and originally appeared on the Tostan Blog.

June 7, 2016

Touch Screens Touch Lives in Benin

 

March 30, 2016

Boston University Launches Online mHealth Course on Dimagi Academy

In horse racing, to win the Trifecta a bettor has to select the first three finishers of a race in the correct order of finish.

March 17, 2016

From Peace Corps Senegal: Managing Stock Levels with SMS Solution Aids Fight Against Malaria

In the fight against malaria, Senegal has been a leader in West Africa in testing new strategies and implementing innovative solutions that has resulted in a mark decrease in malaria burden.

January 25, 2016

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