Founder
Chris is the founder of SurveyCTO. He now serves as Director and Founder Emeritus, supporting Dobility in a variety of part-time capacities. Over the course of Dobility’s first 10 years, he held several positions, including CEO, CTO, and Head of Product.
Before founding Dobility, he was involved in a long-term project to evaluate the impacts of microfinance in South India; developed online curriculum for a program to promote the use of evidence in policy-making in Pakistan and India; and taught statistics and policy analysis at the Harvard Kennedy School. Before that, he co-founded and helped grow an internet technology consultancy and led technology efforts for the top provider of software and hardware for multi-user bulletin board systems (the online systems most prominent before the Internet).
As we’ve discussed in earlier posts, information—and the rules and regulations around using it—is changing the way research institutions, government agencies, development organizations, multilateral organizations
Here at Dobility, we’ve always taken an approach to data security grounded in the moral obligation to protect privacy and honor confidentiality pledges. For us, that moral obligation was always binding. But with the arrival of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), this obligation becomes legal as well – at least where the private or sensitive data of EU citizens is concerned…
Going into effect on May 25, 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) intends to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU). Implications for the international development and research communities could be profound. Learn more in this overview post.
In this post, I consider the recent history of digital data collection technology as an example of MERL technology maturation – and as an example, more broadly, of the importance of market structure in shaping the evolution of a technology.
Dobility India is excited to be speaking at the Glenmark and FICCI Aditya Birla CSR Centre for Excellence Conference on Sharing of Best Practices: Improving
Dobility is excited to be attending the upcoming “Data for Development Festival” event in In Bristol UK, March 21-23, 2018. This event for the partners
MERL Tech UK 2018 Lightning Talk Dobility is excited to be speaking at the upcoming MERL Tech UK event in London, March 19th and
MERL TECH UK 2018 LUNCH SESSION Dobility is excited to be speaking at the upcoming MERL Tech UK event in London, March 19th and 20th.
MERL TECH UK 2018 PANEL DISCUSSION Dobility is excited to be speaking at the upcoming MERL Tech UK event in London, March 19th and 20th.
Dobility is excited to be attending the upcoming “USAID Digital Development Forum: The Next 10 Years” event in Washington D.C on March 9th. The conference will
It was our pleasure to attend EvalFest 2018 organized by the ECOI (Evaluation Community of India) on development evaluation. It truly served as a great
Dobility India will be in New Delhi, India February 7-9, to participate in EvalFest 2018, hosted by the Evaluation Community of India (ECOI)!
Welcome to SurveyCTO! SurveyCTO is a digital data collection platform that helps you to collect high quality data. In this video, you’ll learn about the SurveyCTO platform and take a tour of the major components of the interface called Design, Collect, Monitor and Export.
Magic Bus India Foundation equips some of India’s poorest children and young people with the skills and knowledge to grow up and be successful. In this case study, the Magic Bus team shares their experience with SurveyCTO and how it helped them answer the challenges that they had been facing in their Monitoring and Evaluation projects related to data security and timeliness.
SurveyCTO is excited to participate in Evaluation 2017 hosted by the American Evaluation Association (AEA) in Washington D.C.!
Welcome to SurveyCTO 2.40! In this video, you’ll learn about our improved case lists for case management including new filtered table views. Read the full release notes and update for free at https://www.surveycto.com/support/release-notes/
Welcome to SurveyCTO 2.40! In this video, you’ll learn about our improved support for GPS data, including shapes, traces, and offline maps. Read the full release notes and update for free at https://www.surveycto.com/support/release-notes/
Welcome to SurveyCTO 2.40! In this video, you’ll learn about our secure new “review and correction” workflow for correcting incoming data. Read the full release notes and update for free at https://www.surveycto.com/support/release-notes/
Welcome to SurveyCTO 2.40! In this video, you’ll get highlights from our newest SurveyCTO release. Read the full release notes and update for free at https://www.surveycto.com/support/release-notes/
Welcome to SurveyCTO 2.40! In this video, you’ll learn how our server console improvements make it easier to organize your forms and datasets and search for forms, datasets, and users throughout the server console. Read the full release notes and update for free at https://www.surveycto.com/support/release-notes/
SurveyCTO is excited to participate in the NetHope Global Summit this week in Vancouver, Canada!