http://community.populi.net/mobileresearcher Liberating data, measuring progress, inspiring strategy. Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:14:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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.populi.net/mobileresearcher/index.php/2010/05/whizzkids-uses-mobile-researcher-for-mobile-assisted-self-interviewing/ To facilitate integration with custom built applications Mobile 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.populi.net/mobileresearcher/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.populi.net/mobileresearcher/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.populi.net/mobileresearcher/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.populi.net/mobileresearcher/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.populi.net/mobileresearcher/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.populi.net/mobileresearcher/index.php/2010/01/the-use-of-mobile-phones-as-a-data-collection-tool-a-report-from-a-household-survey-in-south-africa/ It's very encouraging and gratifying to see two oral presentations at this year's Public Health Association of South Africa conference based on experiences of organisations making use of Mobile Researcher. For us, it's a strong indication that the use of mobile and web technologies is becoming more widely accepted in the ... http://community.populi.net/mobileresearcher/index.php/2009/12/oral-presentations-at-phasa-2009-on-mhealth/ It's hard to believe but it's already time for the Public Health Association of South Africa Conference 2009. The conference kicks off next week at the ICC in Durban. As we work with a number of organisations with a strong focus on public health, we'll be there to highlight how mobile ... http://community.populi.net/mobileresearcher/index.php/2009/11/mobile-researcher-at-phasa-2009/ Ensuring that fieldworkers use airtime for its intended purpose can be a challenge. It's notoriously difficult to track and control airtime usage for prepaid SIMs. One way to prevent airtime being used for personal calls and messaging is to convert it into data - which can only be used for internet ... http://community.populi.net/mobileresearcher/index.php/2009/10/data-bundles-for-fieldworkers/