DataWinners - Data Collection for Development Archives

January 10, 2017

Peace Corps Volunteers to Improve Monitoring & Evaluation with DataWinners

Category : DataWinners - Data Collection for Development

HNI's Third-Year Peace Corps Volunteer, Julissa Soriano, assisted the DataWinners Client Support team in coordinating a two-day DataWinners training workshop for 15 fellow Peace Corps Volunteers in Madagascar ......
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August 11, 2016

How we became SMS Skeptics

Category : 3-2-1 On Demand Messaging, DataWinners - Data Collection for Development

Earlier this year we had a bit of a revelation. It came from our Zambia Program Manager, Olivia Bell, who had been digging into the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) statistics. ......
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May 13, 2016

DataWinners Laboratory:
Advanced Mobile Data Collection Features

Category : DataWinners - Data Collection for Development

Users of our DataWinners data collection platform can now use advanced and experimental features. Some of these features are on track to eventually become standard in DataWinners. Other features have been held in reserve for partners who tell us they need to take their data collection efforts to a new level ......
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November 13, 2015

Made-in-Madagascar Technology Solutions for Business and Development

Category : DataWinners - Data Collection for Development, HNI Initiatives, Mobile-to-Mobile Surveys

Mobile technology created for nonprofit NGOs worldwide can also solve business problems. Profit-driven businesses are showing increased interest in a suite of proven mobile solutions developed in Madagascar for the NGO sector by HNI ......
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October 30, 2015

SMS and Smartphones in Mozambique’s Disaster Management System

Category : 3-2-1 On Demand Messaging, DataWinners - Data Collection for Development

Mozambique’s National Disasters Management Institute (INGC) recently unveiled the newest expansion of its Integrated Information System for Disaster Management. The system uses HNI's DataWinners platform to provide SMS alerts prior to a severe weather event, to collect information in real time during an event, and to continue to collect critical data immediately following the event. ......
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July 28, 2015

HNI to Support Catholic Relief Services Implement Food Security Project in Madagascar

Category : 3-2-1 On Demand Messaging, DataWinners - Data Collection for Development

Two HNI technology platforms, DataWinners and the 3-2-1 Service, will support a food security project that will benefit more than 620,000 individuals in Madagascar. The Fararano project will be carried out by a consortium led by Catholic Relief Services (CRS) ......
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April 30, 2015

DataWinners on Windows 10 Phones and Tablets?

Category : DataWinners - Data Collection for Development

WindODK? Microsoft just announced that apps built for Andoid or IOS will be able to run on Windows 10. In theory that means that DataWinners will be able to run on Windows Phones and Tablets. Not just DataWinners -- any derivative of Open Data Kit (ODK). Even more organizations around the world could be able to collect and analyze data from the field using the equipment they already have ......
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February 13, 2015

New: Collect Images, Audio, Videos, Signatures in DataWinners

Category : DataWinners - Data Collection for Development

HNI's DataWinners Service has added the ability to collect image, audio, and video files -- even signatures -- in Advanced DataWinners Questionnaires. This new feature allows you to upload pre-existing media files, or to capture new photos, sounds, and movies and upload them directly from a computer or a device with the DataWinners Android app ......
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February 2, 2015

Gaetano Borriello: ‘The visionary and leader behind Open Data Kit’

Category : DataWinners - Data Collection for Development

The University of Washington announced the death on February 1, 2015 of Gaetano Borriello, the Professor of Computer Science & Engineering who was "the visionary and leader behind Open Data Kit". Open Data Kit is the open source technology that underlies the DataWinners smartphone application. At Human Network International, we are touched by the loss of Borriello. ......
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January 27, 2015

A Two-Way Disaster Warning System in Mozambique Uses SMS and DataWinners

Category : DataWinners - Data Collection for Development

Mozambique’s river basins and coastal zones face chronic vulnerability to extreme weather. As part of the USAID Coastal City Adaptation Project led by Chemonics International, HNI is supporting Mozambique’s National Disasters Management Institute (INGC) to manage early warning and disaster response with SMS on simple mobile phones ......
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