They had also been taught to record observations with the Open Data Kit, an open-source app that makes it easy to collate field notes, photographs and geolocation data.
Funded by the UN development programme, the project trained 160 local women to identify and report incidents of gender violence using Android smartphones that are loaded with an open data kit (ODK) form and an app called EyeWatch.
Free apps such as Open Data Kit make it easy to build forms for entering data, and developments in mobile banking make it easy to pay community members for monitoring (whether using full banking systems or simply offering phone credit, which acts as an informal currency in much of Africa).
Various open source tools such as the Open Data Kit (ODK) (Hartung et al. 2010) make it trivial for such data to be collected.
Data regarding the pre-operative processes (order preparation time, supply time, storage area occupied, time, and cost of sterilisation) and intra-operative data (kit unpacking time, instrument preparation, and surgeons' perceptions) were acquired.
Studies such as Helgeson et al. (2013) and Enenkel et al. (2015) are exceptions, having recorded socioeconomic vulnerability such as the incidence of malnutrition ex-ante within affected communities through geospatial surveys using, for example, Open Data Kit (ODK) or Geographical ODK (GeoODK).
Under the program, women are given a smartphone equipped with an open data kit and the app "EyeWatch".
ACASI data were collected on an Open Data Kit (ODK) platform.
Platforms commonly used to develop data collection systems include Open Data Kit (ODK) and FrontlineSMS.
Responses were entered into a tablet computer using Open Data Kit database software [ 18].
Open Data Kit software in tablet computers was used to support the collection and entering of the data.
