Online simulation with SurveyCTO
For a Masters in Public Policy course at Harvard Kennedy School, we wanted to shift a pandemic simulation from in-class to before-class. Read more to learn how we did it with SurveyCTO...
SurveyCTO 2.0 takes flight
SurveyCTO 2.0 is out! Read more about what this means, and what we're coming out with next...
SurveyCTO 2.0 public beta
Because SurveyCTO 2.0 is such a big release for us, we're being very careful about the testing and roll-out. As we finalize the release, we'd like to invite our existing users to participate as beta testers. Read this post for all the details.
Beyond just talking about human-centered design
People have been talking about human-centered design for years, and there is always much enthusiasm for how the core principles might apply in the development context. In this blog post, I try to bring things down to earth, discussing ways that project and in-country teams might use SurveyCTO to put good design principles into practice.
The structure of the tech-for-dev marketplace
Thoughts on the structure of the technology-for-development marketplace, donor incentives, and the role for private-sector technology providers...
v1.40 out, with freedom to revise and publish at will
The theme of our v1.40 release is freedom, because our development focus was on the removal of limitations. There's nothing too flashy or sexy about it – we're leaving that for our 2.0 release (which is already in development) – but we expect that the greater freedoms in v1.40 will lead to significant, potentially-dramatic quality-of-life improvements for many of our users...
Integrating with SalesForce.com
The folks at open[Fn] have just released a SalesForce.com integration for SurveyCTO and other ODK-based systems, and we're very excited to have this new option available to our users. (SalesForce.com is a ridiculously powerful cloud platform that can be used for data monitoring, visualization, and management, priced at extremely steep discounts for nonprofits.) ...
On SurveyCTO: An open letter
It started as a modest experiment in electronic data collection embedded within a much more ambitious experiment involving microfinance in rural India. Today, SurveyCTO has grown into a mature technology platform used to collect data in hundreds of projects around the world. This inaugural blog post seems like a good time to look briefly back, and then forward to where SurveyCTO is headed...