My name is Fran and I am based on the south coast of the UK in Lymington. I am a fisheries consultant and work all over the world, specialising in the management and monitoring of small scale fishing communities. My company is MacAlister Elliott and Partners: http://www.macalister-elliott.com/
I first got involved with the ODK community when I worked with FAO in Sierra Leone, training fishing community members how to collect data on their fish catches, using forms designed with ODK. I have also just returned from Western Ghana, having trained a group of young enumerators to collect fisheries data using mobile phones.
Outside of work, I spend a lot of time training at CrossFit (a combination of gymnastics, conditioning and weight lifting) and also love hiking in the hills of the UK, camping and surfing along out south coast.
Heya Amazing People!
I'm Srishti from India and am pursuing my major in communication engineering. I also work as the Student Manager with Internshala (world's largest internship platform) and hence I need to maintain a lot of database and circulate various (XLSForm) forms amongst the students. This is how I started to dive deep into the further usage of these forms and how they can be used with ODK Tools. And finally my curiosity lead me to explore the world of open source and Open Data Kit Community.
So, this was my ODK origin story!
Other things that I am passionately involved in are : community building , brand representation and also i have developed a direct digital synthesiser (DDS) using programmable system of chips (PSoC) to make education more accessible to underpriviledged people at very low costs and using very little power in remote areas.
These are the little ways in ehich I have been contributing to the society and ODK's vision inspires me to connect with it and immensely work on mobile data collection because i love to aggregate collected data, play with it and extract it in directly usable formats ! The reason I chose ODK for Outreachy is the fact that you guys have taken up a simple concept and used out-of-box ideas to expand and help in each and every field there is ! This means that I'll get an opportunity to explore, learn and impact extensively (gives me an adrenaline rush)
Hope to work with you and learn numerous exciting things!
Looking forward to connect with you all on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/srishti-gupta-227472118
Hi,
My name is Sidhra Ahmed. I am from Canada.I have graduated with a bachelors in Stats. Along the way I have picked up coding in R and C++. Have self-taught MySQL on my spare time. I am new to FOSS-I am eager to use my skills, further develop them, and make contributions to ODK.
My name is Busola. I am based in Nigeria. I got to know about the ODK in 2015, while I was doing my masters in Epidemiology. I used it to collect data. Currently, I am serving with an organisation where we need to collect data and I would be very pleased if I can set this up for my organisation. Outside of data collection, I enjoy reading, listening to music and dancing.
I am Edouard, IT specialist for the health sector in developing countries. I am currently working in Mozambique / Malawi with a humanitarian organization. I have been setting up few ODK collect project already and now immersing myself into the ODK2 world.
My name is Saahid, I got interested in ODK when I was Surveillance Data Manager and living in Somalia, we were looking for better ways to collect data more efficiently in low bandwidth environments.
ODK-Collect as our mobile data collection tool which have been using since 2015 and introduced by Dr. Jama from Kenya who piloted mobile data collection using ODK for LQAS in Puntland - Somalia.
I've only recently had the opportunity to contribute translation of Somali language for ODK tool.
Hi All, I'm Fahmi from Jakarta, Indonesia
Actually, I know ODK years ago, but kinda going to use it for my current project for the first time now.
I might have so many question about it.
So, please bear with me
Hello I am Billow Abdi from Nairobi Kenya. I am a researcher and I have been a frequent user of ODK platform for the past three years. I still use it and will continue doing the same. I first came across ODK in January 2015 through a workmate who asked me to help him author a questionnaire by posting questions on the label column and he would do the remaining job. After doing so, he gave me a link to follow for some help and through that I was able to do better than he expected of me. I like using ODK because I am satisfied of its ability to help in making data collection easy and efficient. Besides my daily work duties, I like watching documentaries and playing volleyball. My twitter handle is billowabdi. I am glad to join this community and I promise to respect the codes of conduct of the forum. Thanks all.
My name is Katarzyna and I am a QA from Poland. Actually, I am a biotechnologist but currently I am trying myself in computer science and I’ve just started my adventure with ODK.
Hi everyone
Im Richie. Im from Cameroon. Im a Network Associate. I heard of ODK from a friend of mine (@icemc). I've used ODK for personal data collection. My first encounter with these tools was awesome.
Hi! I'm Noel from Ireland, currently working in Jordan supporting humanitarian work in the Middle East and a few other countries. I am particularly interested the automation and scalability of data flow and hope to be able to make a contribution to the community in this area.
It's an honor to introduce myself to a group of interesting people, helping to build such an important tool. In Medair we have been using ODK based tools as the standard method of data collection and it is invaluable to our projects.
If you would like to know more about Medair's IM work in the Middle East or elsewhere just let me know!
Happy to be part of ODK,
Myself, Anup Krishna P, am an IT Professional with experience in System Analysis and design, currently working as Specialist in Management Information System for Local Self Government Department, Government of Kerala in India.
We have piloted ODK in Deputy Director of Panchayat Office-Thrissur, Kerala for GPS based mapping of all Local Government Bodies in the district. The pilot was successfully completed in a week's time and we are really amazed by the functionality and adaptability of Open Data Kit. We take this opportunity to thank all persons involved in the development, implementation and maintenance of ODK.
Hello,
I am Nji, from Cameroon. I am a Systems Administrator(Solaris, CentOS, RHEL, Windows). I learnt of ODK from some friends (@icemc and @iceb85) and used it on a little personal project i was trying to carryout. Because the software was cool, i decided to join the community I hope to get help as well as offer help when and where possible.
Thanks.
I'm Jonathan, a software developer with IMA World Health. We are a US-based NGO that works in the health system strengthening for third world nations. We've been using ODK for the last year in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for everything from demographic surveys to expense reports. We find that the combination of timestamps, pictures, and GPS coordinates go a long way towards fraud projection and gives us much more reliable data than any other collection method currently available to us.
I'm @jniles on Github if you want to check out some of our projects.
Hello everybody! My name is Akira, I'm a forensic expert in Brazil. My colleagues and I are currently studying how the ODK platform can be used to improve data collection processes and automate the creation of forensic reports.
I hope I can help with ideas and shared experiences.
I got involved in the community when I started also working with a project using ODK.