Learn how to efficiently export data and manage projects with SurveyCTO Desktop
Get introduced to SurveyCTO Desktop, the most flexible and powerful way to centralize your work, export your data, manage projects, and work offline.
SurveyCTO 2.60: New look meets smarter functionality
SurveyCTO 2.60 introduces new features and key improvements that enhance the look, functionality, and accessibility of your SurveyCTO experience, no matter how you use the platform.
SurveyCTO 2.60: New look meets smarter functionality
Whether you collect data, manage data, oversee projects, or design forms, version 2.60 introduces new features and key improvements that enhance the look, functionality, and accessibility of your SurveyCTO experience.
SurveyCTO Webinar Series: Update your household rosters over time
In this second installment of SurveyCTO’s webinar series, we show you how to update your household rosters by combining baseline and endline household rosters into one list in the SurveyCTO platform. We do so by assembling a choice list that captures all the members of a household, both new and previous. This choice list can be created in an endline survey, as well as in any midline surveys.
Our Story
SurveyCTO is the most reliable, secure, and scalable mobile data collection platform for researchers and professionals working in offline settings.
SurveyCTO Webinar Series: Repeat group relationships
In this webinar, we walk through a household survey example where we first create a roster of household members, followed by two rosters that match spouses to each other and children to parents. Lastly, we store those connections.
Dobility India is becoming Trestle Research and Consulting
Learn about Trestle Research and Consulting, and how Dobility is changing how it grows its business and engagement in India.
Planting the seeds for a post-ICT4D world.
Hope for a post-ICT4D world
We should hope for a post-ICT4D world that promotes an ecosystem of technology providers instead of hindering them.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is coming—are you ready?
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.
We’re heading to GPSDD’s Data for Development Festival in Bristol, UK
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 and friends of the Global…
BINGO! Quality Data Collection Isn’t a Game, but Oxfam Canada Won with SurveyCTO
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. Our lunchtime session will review…
Will we see you at the Digital Development Conference in Washington DC?
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 explore how to effectively catalyze…
We’re heading to New Delhi for EvalFest 2018!
Dobility India will be in New Delhi, India February 7-9, to participate in EvalFest 2018, hosted by the Evaluation Community of India (ECOI)!
We’re in Vancouver for the NetHope Global Summit!
SurveyCTO is excited to participate in the NetHope Global Summit this week in Vancouver, Canada!
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...
Planning for electronic data collection
You need to collect some data. You’re familiar with pen-and-paper data collection, but you’ve decided to make the leap and enjoy the benefits of electronic data collection. Now you have a lot of questions...
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...