CHC AHEAD needed a digital system that would enable multiple partners in multiple locations to collect, monitor and evaluate data which would be collected via mobile phones in the field all over Africa.
Overtone proposed a combination of two existing open source systems to achieve the goals of this project. Users would be able to collect data securely from any android app and then synchronise this data with the website. The website would then make it possible to restrict or limit access to different data sets depending on which roles or groups each user was part of.
We setup and configured an Open Data Kit server and a DKAN Drupal CMS installation which included Organic Groups. The website was built to enable users to share data and manage presentation of data to both public and private groups. The content of the site was built using a hierarchy which enabled administrators of higher level content to manage sub-level content automatically.
The project comprised of 2 parts. The first being the development of the ODK data collection and app system which was designed to work on any low cost smart phone. The second part was the development of the website which would then be used to manipulate and manage that raw data once it was imported into the system.
We provide ongoing management and maintenance for CHC AHEAD as well as the managed cloud hosting, email hosting and backups of the ODK system.
The website is hosted by Overtone on our super fast cloud hosting solution.
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