“Birth to Twenty” is the largest and longest running study of child and adolescent health and development in Africa. In 2009, it embraces the mobile era by connecting several thousand participants to the Mobile Researcher platform, facilitating real-time mobile data collection.

The MRC selected Mobile Researcher, a locally developed research platform, for a large-scale baseline study conducted in Umlazi, KZN. Equipped with standard cellphones, fieldworkers were able to capture and upload responses from within the mobile application, eliminating the need for paper and subsequent data capture.