Hello there ODKaers , my name is Jorge Durand , I am an humanitarian worker and an ODK fan since 2013 when I starting to push for mainstreaming ODK into ACF (Action Against Hunger) operations , I may say I did succeed now ACF is using ODK in day to day basis and every ACF country mission has is own server (http://odk.acf-e.org/). You can check the tool kit I put together at : http://odk.acf-e.org/odk/start_here.html . Also developed moodle course (sorry that is restricted access for ACF staff )
I had also supported FINCA int on implementing several kind of forms and gained experience on form building , All of it via xlsforms ( what a wonderful tool )
Let me express my gratitude to all ODK founders and developers for the great job when finding the missing link between data collection and digital online offline worlds
Also played around ODK and Raspberry PI Aggregate server
Best regards to everybody , I believe I will increase participation on the forum as a way of giving back to the community what the community provided
Hello all. I'm a bit late to the introduction party, I've been bogged down with a large project (surprise surprise, ODK was a key tool employed for the data collection)
I work for an organization called TANGO International, which employed electronic data collection back in the PDA era. Shortly after joining TANGO in 2012 we began to explore non-PDA related electronic data collection options. We found, and used, ODK for the first time in 2013. By 2014 it was our primary data collection tool. Since then we have completed hundreds of thousands surveys across Asia, Africa, and Latin America using ODK. Most of TANGO's research revolves around food security and household resilience measurement.
I'm currently based in D.C., but I'll be moving to Minnesota (St. Paul) in July. My wife and I are from the Midwest, (MN & WI), and we want our 16 month old son to grow up closer to family. While I love D.C. -- I'm very excited to have a big yard, a riding lawn mower, and a BBQ (smoker). When I envision my fast approaching new Midwestern life, I see myself riding on a lawnmower, with a brisket and pork butt smoking in the BBQ, while my son is playing in freshly cut crass.
Hi All! I am an XLSForm enthusiast. I've done a wide range of survey research and consultancy work using XLSForm. I work at Dobility, the social enterprise that develops and maintains SurveyCTO, an ODK off-shoot. While SurveyCTO is differentiated from core ODK, I'm interested in following new developments in the core platform.
Hi I'm Neil Penman typically based in Canberra although I am currently in Berlin. I work on mobile data collection applications and related projects. I maintain an open source MDC server application that has been in use since 2009. In 2011 I was very pleased to wave goodbye to our J2ME clients and adopt odkCollect which has been, and still, is great!
My name is Arie, from Seattle Washington. I work at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on polio eradication, where we use the ODK suite of tools to help find and report the last polio cases, and then the monitor vaccination programs that prevent spread of the disease (see more here: http://polioeradication.org/). I first started using ODK with Yaw in South Sudan back in 2014, and have been hooked since.
When I'm not collecting data, I'm analyzing it (I'm a statistician by training, specializing in machine learning), and when I'm not working on data, I try to get out and about in the beautiful pacific north-west of the US, preferably mountain biking or rock climbing.
Fun fact: I was the former paper airplane champion of Quebec, a title which I won by accident and have since failed miserably in my one meager attempt to hold on to it. It's also a great teaching example for statistics! See 'the winner's curse' or 'regression to the mean'.
Hi! I'm Philippe and after some time backpacking in South-East Asia I started to volunteer for a Human Rights organization "Foundation for Education and Development" (FED) in Khao Lak, Thailand (ghre.org). After a while I decided to stick around and now I'm managing the IT and Design for the organization for about 3 years.
I graduated as a Multimedia Designer in 2007 and in Media Technology in 2012. I've a passion for usability and simplifying processes through visual and interaction design, which led to majoring in User Experience Design and 2 years of Project Managing at a Digital Agency in The Netherlands. I had to explore more of the world and decided to travel around in 2014.
Currently I'm experimenting with ODK to setup easy data collection in the field and data visualization for our Human Rights and Health projects. I'm excited to be here and hope to learn a lot from you!
HI everyone my name is Cleopas Mukanya Hwinya i am based in South Africa ,i have been using ODK since 2012 or so i cant remember .I got involved in ODK when i collected data for a project where we interviewed school children at their schools i remember we had more than 100 android phones and tablets for this . I then used ODK on a clinical trial project and several registers and surveys where we collect data from different clinics and submit to our local Aggregate server at the end of the day .At the present moment i have more than 10 different projects using ODK for data collect and i am planning to implement an HDSS that will use ODK and OpenHDS software to manage the data.
I do enjoy road and trail running after work and this is were i solve most of my complicated problems as i meditate the solutions and i also enjoy playing social soccer on weekends . I do hope to make a positive interaction with all member in the forum
Hi all, my name is Aurelio and I work in Switzerland (Basel) for the Swiss and Public Health Institute (TPH) www.swisstph.ch
I'm Italian but from a bit more than 8 years I work and live in Switzerland.
I'm at the TPH the responsible person for all project running ODK (60 projects spread over 35 countries and 4 continents).
In the last 4 years I've been also involved on Health Demographic Surveillance Systems together with the INDEPTH network (www.indepth-network.org/) to help their associated members to move to electronic data collection for their HDSS. In collaboration with the University of Southern Main we developed an android mobile application (OpenHDS) interfaced with ODK collect to collect health and demographic data.
in the scope of the Data for Health initiative (D4H), we have been involved in running ODK training (Collect, Aggregate and Briefcase) in some countries where D4H is involved (Myanmar, Bangladesh, Ghana) and mentoring teams in other countries (Philippines, PNG).
In collaboration with WHO we have developed an ODK version of the 2016 verbal autopsy standard which is currently being rolled out in a number of countries.
Hi, I work for the Pest Management Lab, a very small unit with the City of Edmonton in Alberta, Canada. I've been working to develop ODK into a data collection system for many of our tasks over the past few years replacing many of our paper based methods. Combined with Fusion Tables it's been very, very useful and powerful! The ODK community is pretty great!
I'm an entomologist by training and now I primarily do computer technical/development/GIS stuff. I also cycle a lot. Life's weird.
Hi There! I'm new to ODK. I'm a researcher in the social sciences and looking to make the switch from pen and paper to digital. I've heard great things about ODK so giving it a try. Thanks!
I'm Souirji Abdelghani, a Belgian national holding an engineering and PhD degrees in agronomy and soils. I have been working in rural development in 16 countries in Asia and Africa since 1978. I have worked in government and private rural development organizations and 11 years as FAO expert and project manager. I am now 'retired' but continue to give a hand to some NGOs mostly in Ethiopia and Senegal.
I often have to help partners design/conduct household surveys and started using ODK for that about 18 months ago. I only use ODK Collect, ODK Build Offline, ODK Briefcase and Nafundi's excellent XLSFORM offline in my workflow because it is rare to find reliable and affordable Internet connections in rural areas of the developing world.
ODK is such a marvelous set of tools that I have become addicted to it! Although I've been writing software using MS Visual Basic.NET since 2003, I have started learning Java and the Android platform to give a hand in the development of ODK tools.
I am also a fan and a heavy user of QGIS to which I wish also to contribute.
So my retirement program is mostly being involved in ODK and QGIS.... Sorry, I forgot to add that I also like taking care of my wonderful family (Wife, 3 children, 2 grand-children ... so far).
I also like nature, gardening and sea-fishing.
Congratulations to ODK team for the nice work and to this wonderful community.
Hi, I am Maurice recent graduate from Georgetown University. I work at DIAL at the UN Foundation. I live in Washington, DC and I am originally from Rwanda. I am interested in writing a case study on ODK particularly from the end-user perspective. Hope to learn from this forum/ you all.
I am based out of Nairobi, Kenya, presently serving as the Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning (MEL) Manager for Mercy Corps' East and Southern Africa regional office, since January, 2017.
I first interacted with the ODK platform and community in 2015 while in my previous similar role with the African Agricultural Technology Foundation (AATF). I participated in a hackathon sponsored by the Gates Foundation and hosted by the NAFUNDI team, which led to a partnership between AATF and NAFUNDI, who helped us in setting up, training and piloting the use of ODK across our various projects (Thanks to @yanokwa)
In my current role, I advise and support several of our programs in the region, on the use of ODK and other ODK-based platforms (ONA, TAROWORKS etc) as the main data collection tools within our M&E system(s).
In my spare time, I am an avid traveler and mentor for under-privileged children from Nairobi's slum areas, who I support through sponsorship of a local junior soccer academy.
Hello everyone
I'm Jean Christian Kouontchou Mimbe.
I'm Data Manager in World Health Organization, Cameroon office. I'm based in Yaoundé.
I got the pleasure to work with Yaw on our GIS project in Cameroon where a set of geolocation point was to be collected (thank Yaw for you support). ODK took a growing place in our data collection system so far and it is pleasure for me to be part of this forum. Hope ODK will continue is great job in the area of data collection and that this forum will allow me to solve some problem I sometimes have.
I can present myself as a final user of ODK.
(I'm most french speaker than English. So do not be suprised of mistakes (haha). I'm still working to improve my english).
Very much looking forward to the conference, and to finally meeting some of the great ODK community.
I'm Calum, I focus on Monitoring, Learning and Evaluation and am based in London although principally work on projects across Sub-Saharan Africa and South-East Asia. I got involved with ODK as one of our clients wanted to conduct tablet-based data collection across West Africa, but they did not have the budget to commit to paid-for solutions. They also had no in-house capacity to build or roll-out such tools. We built some survey tools (including incorporating encryption), and linked to their existing servers. I'm also working on visualisation of ODK data - both live (through FusionTables etc) and also through wider data analysis using Stata etc. I'd like to develop my R skills, too.
I'm on Twitter @CalumAH - and always looking to see more ODK/data topics in my feed.
I'm Shawn Sarwar. I'm currently the Sr. Consultant for GHI at eHealth Africa. We use or have used most of major constituents of the ODK ecosystem for various project implementations. Before eHA, I was the technical director at VaxTrac, where we used CommCareODK as part of our stack for childhood immunization tracking using biometric identifiers. These days I do less programming and more systems architecture, although on occasion I'll still put together a functional PoC to make a point. I'm glad to be part of the community and very much looking forward to seeing the collective vision for ODK!
This is Vishesh from India. I was working for a startup till last month.
I got to know about ODK when I was just randomly exploring github one day and I realised there is so much that I can contribute to (especially to collect, since I can code fairly well in Android). You can find me on Github at https://github.com/VisheshVadhera.
I love listening to Heavy Metal Music in my spare time and also am an ardent follower of Arsenal Football Club.
Fun Fact: I belong to 18-35 % of the world population that has a condition called Photic Sneeze Reflex which means that I am unable to control my sneeze while looking directly at sun!
Our software & data team consists of software developers, GIS and data specialists. I come from a design and software product development background. The team is based in Melbourne, Australia, which is far away from most things, including other parts of Australia.
We began using ODK in 2016 and it has been a very valuable part of our toolkit since then. One of our team members had used it in a previous project and recommended it, so we trialled it (successfully) in a project site and have been using ODK 2 since then.
The team at UW have provided a lot of great support for us, and I'm really looking forward to the discussions on the next steps for ODK.