Smartphone-based field surveys
Football for Water, Ghana, using Akvo FLOW Smartphone-based field surveys Akvo FLOW Map, monitor and evaluate infrastructure, social issues, interventions and services – or anything else. Akvo FLOW is affordable, reliable and highly scalable. It uses smartphones to dramatically improve the ease, speed and accuracy of data collection. What • • An internet and Android smartphone tool for collecting, evaluating and displaying any amount of geographically referenced data Lets you map and analyse situations on the ground and monitor changes over time Why • • • • Dramatically increases speed and accuracy of data collection Makes field survey enumerators’ jobs much easier Greatly helps to co-ordinate large-scale data collection exercises Easy to publish, share and analyse information • • Affordable, reliable and highly scalable Designed to work in remote areas lacking basic infrastructure How • • • • • Well-designed, multi-lingual, online dashboard lets you manage your data collection and visualise your findings FLOW Android app can conduct surveys in any language Continuous monitoring feature lets you track data points over time Works in remote locations without cell phone coverage Full training and support provided Who is using FLOW? Dashboard More than 200 organisations, including national governments, multi-lateral aid agencies and small and large NGOs are using FLOW to monitor water and sanitation points, health and education services, agricultural practices, food security within communities, wildlife populations and more. Over a million data points have been mapped to date. The FLOW dashboard makes it simple to create and distribute surveys; review and clean incoming data; export reports, maps and histograms; and manage user roles and permissions. Manual data collection is cumbersome Until now, staff needed to carry GPS, cameras and papers into the field. Forms were manually re-entered into computers leading to errors. Data was locked away in spreadsheets. Results were not visible or accessible and were hard to measure. Akvo FLOW changes all that. Maximum survey flexibility Teams can create simple or complex questionnaires on any topic. Surveys can gather different types of data including text and numbers, photos, videos and barcodes. Dependent questions can be used to customise survey paths based on a respondent’s answers. Cascading questions can reliably capture multi-level data such as administrative boundaries. Monitoring features let you track and update data points over time. Link teams together Smartphone The FLOW field survey app lets you conduct surveys in any language using Android smartphones, even when you’re out of signal range. The data uploads automatically whenever network coverage resumes. GPS accurately records the location of each data point. Akvo FLOW helps teams of remote field workers stay in touch with programme managers and experts who may not be nearby. As data is collected, it can be viewed and analysed in real time by many team members in large numbers of locations. The feedback loop is shortened, making programmes work better and faster. Akvo FLOW Collect good data. Make good decisions. About Akvo Akvo builds open source Internet and mobile software that is used to make international development cooperation and aid activity more effective and transparent. We provide the software as a service to our partners, backed by a partner-support and training team. Akvo Foundation Netherlands Jeroen van der Sommen +31 (0) 65 180 20 41 jeroen@akvo.org Lissy van Noort +31 (0)20 820 0175 lissy@akvo.org East Africa Luuk Diphoorn +254 (0)7 087 83 366 luuk@akvo.org West Africa Emeline Bereziat +226 75 97 06 69 emeline@akvo.org South Asia Isha Parihar +91 9810213633 isha@akvo.org South East Asia Frodo van Oostveen +65 81869264 frodo@akvo.org Akvo Foundation USA North, Central and South America Henry Jewell +1 703 987 0188 henry@akvo.org
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