http://community.mobenzi.com Mobile data collection for the real world Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:48:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The National Information System for Social Assistance (NISSA) is an initiative by the Lesotho Department of Health and Social Welfare to create a centralised information system accessible to all authorised social assistance programmes in the country. Fieldworkers began training on Monday and by 9 April 2011, over 150 will have been ... http://community.mobenzi.com/index.php/2011/04/training-begins-for-lesotho-governments-nissa-project/ On Tuesday, 25 January 2011 we will be deploying a major update to the Analytics section. The Analytics section provides access to raw data, reports and export functionality for all your data collected using Mobile Researcher. A common and powerful feature used by survey designers is the ability to make a ... http://community.mobenzi.com/index.php/2011/01/important-information-about-the-upcoming-change-to-the-analytics-section/ I recently returned from exhibiting at the 2010 Public Health Association of South Africa conference. The conference took place in East London this year and it was great to have an opportunity to travel to one of the smaller cities for a change. Considering the location, the turnout was truly ... http://community.mobenzi.com/index.php/2010/12/some-thoughts-on-phasa-2010/ WhizzKids United is a non-profit organisation which uses the universal language of football as a tool to address the HIV epidemic and its impact on children. In support of their ongoing work in schools, they recently embarked on a baseline study to inform these efforts. The baseline survey involves asking about a ... http://community.mobenzi.com/index.php/2010/05/whizzkids-uses-mobile-researcher-for-mobile-assisted-self-interviewing/ To facilitate integration with custom built applications Mobenzi Researcher supports a rich application programming interface (API). The API is implemented using REST which provides flexible data services that are naturally integrated with the web. This means that the API may be accessed from virtually any platform or programming language. Most custom built ... http://community.mobenzi.com/index.php/2010/04/mobile-researcher-api/ I am often asked what advantages Mobile Researcher offers over paper-based data collection techniques. Before I give my answer to that question, I'd like to make it clear that paper is sometimes a good solution. Although we're working on some really exciting qualitative data collection solutions, for certain situations (for ... http://community.mobenzi.com/index.php/2010/03/paper-versus-mobile-data-collection/ Several significant user interface enhancements were deployed as part of our release which took place on 13 February. In this short tutorial, I'd like to introduce you to 3 of the elements which were either added or enhanced. Breadcrumb A Breadcrumb is a common navigational element used on many websites to allow users to ... http://community.mobenzi.com/index.php/2010/02/breadcrumb-quick-switch-and-ribbon/ As part of our ongoing efforts to provide enterprise-level functionality to organisations of all sizes, we'd like to introduce a new airtime monitoring and recharge service. By enabling this service for a fieldworker's SIM card, you are able to automatically specify recharges consisting of airtime, data, SMS bundles or a combination. Configured ... http://community.mobenzi.com/index.php/2010/02/automated-airtime-monitoring/ The Mobile Web East Africa Conference takes place in Nairobi, Kenya on 3 and 4 February focusing on "harnessing the potential of the internet and applications on mobile devices". With contributions from individuals such as Erik Hersman (of White African and Ushahidi acclaim), Steve Vosloo (a fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation), ... http://community.mobenzi.com/index.php/2010/01/well-be-at-the-mobile-web-east-africa-conference/ In late December 2009, the BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making journal published a technical advance which outlined the experiences of organisations making use of Mobile Researcher "to investigate the feasibility, the ease of implementation, and the extent to which community health workers with little experience of data collection could be trained ... http://community.mobenzi.com/index.php/2010/01/the-use-of-mobile-phones-as-a-data-collection-tool-a-report-from-a-household-survey-in-south-africa/