ODK is an open-source mobile data collection platform. It enables users to fill out forms offline and send form data to a server when a connection is found. Once on the server, the data can be viewed, downloaded, and acted upon.
ODK is primarily used by organizations working in humanitarian aid and global development. Notable users include
World Health Organization
The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. The WHO Constitution states its main objective as "the attainment by all peoples of the highest possible level of h ...
,
International Red Cross and Red Crescent, and
Carter Center
The Carter Center is a nongovernmental, not-for-profit organization founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter. He and his wife Rosalynn Carter partnered with Emory University just after his defeat in the 1980 United States presidenti ...
. ODK has been recognized by the Digital Public Goods Alliance as a
digital public good.
History
ODK (formerly called Open Data Kit) was founded in 2008 by
Gaetano Borriello
Gaetano Borriello (1958–2015) was an American computer scientist and researcher in ubiquitous computing. He is known for starting the Open Data Kit project and as the founding director of Intel Research Seattle. ThPlace Labproject he led at Inte ...
, Yaw Anokwa, Waylon Brunette, and Carl Hartung. It was designed to be an extensible, open-source suite to build information services for developing regions.
[Hartung et al. (2010) Open Data Kit: Tools to Build Information Services for Developing Regions http://anokwa.com/publications/2010_ICTD_OpenDataKit_Paper.pdf]
References
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External links
ODK website
GIS software
Free software