A Practical Analysis of Mobile Data Collection Apps

Bokonda, Patrick Loola; Ouazzani-Touhami, Khadija; Souissi, Nissrine

doi:10.3991/ijim.v14i13.13483

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“…With the dynamic digital age, mobile devices are becoming more widely available at economical rates [ 21 , 22 ]. The last few years have witnessed an increase in the use of emerging mobile technologies in healthcare services and programs for better, faster, and more error-free data collection and analysis processes, compared to paper-based modes of information gathering [ 23 ].…”

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Assessment of open data kit mobile technology adoption to enhance reporting of supportive supervision conducted for oral poliovirus vaccine supplementary immunization activities in Nigeria, March 2017-February 2020

Bammeke,

Erbeto,

Aregay

et al. 2023

Pan Afr Med J

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Introduction in Nigeria, supportive supervision of Supplementary Immunization Activities (SIA) is a quality improvement strategy for providing support to vaccination teams administering the poliovirus vaccines to children under 5 years of age. Supervision activities were initially reported in paper forms. This had significant limitations, which led to Open Data Kit (ODK) technology being adopted in March 2017. A review was conducted to assess the impact of ODK for supervision reporting in place of paper forms. Methods issues with paper-based reporting and the benefits of ODK were recounted. We determined the average utilization of ODK per polio SIA rounds and assessed the supervision coverage over time based on the proportion of local government areas with ODK geolocation data per round. Results a total of 17 problematic issues were identified with paper-based reporting, and ODK addressed all the issues. Open Data Kit-based supervision reports increased from 3,125 in March 2017 to 51,060 in February 2020. Average ODK submissions for national rounds increased from 84 in March 2017 to 459 in February 2020 and for sub-national rounds increased from 533 in July 2017 to 1,596 in October 2019. Supportive supervision coverage improved from 42.5% in March 2017 to 97% in February 2020. Conclusion the use of digital technologies in public health has comparative advantages over paper forms, and the adoption of ODK for supervision reporting during polio SIAs in Nigeria experienced the advantages. The visibility and coverage of supportive supervision improved, consequentially contributing to the improved quality of polio SIAs.

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Assessment of open data kit mobile technology adoption to enhance reporting of supportive supervision conducted for oral poliovirus vaccine supplementary immunization activities in Nigeria, March 2017-February 2020

Bammeke,

Erbeto,

Aregay

et al. 2023

Pan Afr Med J

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“…Whilst there are numerous options available for data collection (see Bokonda et al, 2020), the KoBoToolbox was selected for this project due to ease of configuration, intuitive interface, ability to analyse and moderate collected data within the interface, and a mobile application that allows for offline data capture.…”

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RAPID DATA COLLECTION FOR THE AUDIT OF MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS IN SOUTH AFRICA

Jackson¹,

Nkhasi-Lesaoana²,

Mofutsanyana³

2021

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. The tradition of memorialising people and events through physical constructions such as statues and monuments like in many countries, has shaped the public space of a modern South Africa. Considering the colonial and apartheid history of South Africa, these physical markers, often uncontextualized, continue to maintain positions of prominence within the modern streetscape.Since the turn of the democratic era in South Africa, a pressing need has existed to assess the impact of the markers on the heritage landscape of the country. An endeavour made more difficult by a lack of a comprehensive inventory of these resources across the country.The National Audit of Monuments and Memorials (NAMM) was designed to address this gap through a full national survey of monuments and memorials, conducted under the auspices of a job creation stimulus package designed to create short term employment in the wake of the economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic. Undertaking this project under this funding mechanism required that all phases of the project be undertaken within a six-month period.The compressed timeframes associated with this project required an approach that could support a level of fluidity to address the challenges of undertaking a project of this nature, whilst ensuring that the data collected by field surveyors can be monitored and included in the inventory of the national estate in an effective manner.The aim of this paper is to discuss and showcase the tools and workflows used to roll out and manage the large-scale national audit of monuments and memorials across South Africa.

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“…The study presented in CartOng [13] raises 26 tools dedicated to electronic data collection. Through the comparison between the described tools, choosing ODK-X as a tool is clearly the best choice for our needs [14], [15].…”

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ODK-X: From A Classic Process To A Smart Data Collection Process

Tikito

Souissi²

2021

Int. J. Interact. Mob. Technol.

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Data collection is one of the first and main phases of the data life cycle. It enables improvements to be made across all phases of the data lifecycle. In this sense, we have proposed a data collection process qualified as Smart. For our smart data collection process, we have adopted the principles of the smart data approach allowing less data to be transmitted to the analysis and storage processes, while maintaining better data quality. In addition, we also used Edge computing since it provides services with faster response and better quality, compared to cloud computing. To experiment this process on mobile data, we propose to extend a mobile data collection software solution and adopt one of the key data collection methods. In this paper, we tested our smart data collection process via the ODK-X software suite and were able to identify the added value of our process compared to the one used by default during collection.

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A Practical Analysis of Mobile Data Collection Apps

Cited by 10 publications

References 9 publications

Assessment of open data kit mobile technology adoption to enhance reporting of supportive supervision conducted for oral poliovirus vaccine supplementary immunization activities in Nigeria, March 2017-February 2020

Assessment of open data kit mobile technology adoption to enhance reporting of supportive supervision conducted for oral poliovirus vaccine supplementary immunization activities in Nigeria, March 2017-February 2020

RAPID DATA COLLECTION FOR THE AUDIT OF MONUMENTS & MEMORIALS IN SOUTH AFRICA

ODK-X: From A Classic Process To A Smart Data Collection Process

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