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The Ultimate Go-To Resource on Mobile Data Collection (and growing…)

Posted by MohiniBhavsar on Sep 13, 2010

Want to use mobiles for data collection? Don't know where to start your research or where to read evaluations of existing and past mobile data collection efforts? You're in luck! We've produced the resource guide you've been waiting for.

Recently, MobileActive.org collaborated with UN Global Pulse to crowdsource an inventory of mobile data collection projects around the world. While this growing inventory shows there is enormous interest to leverage mobile technology for data collection, technical reports and evaluations of deployments and pilots are scattered.

So, we took the lead and compiled the existing literature (as best as we could) in an easy-to-use spreadsheet here.

"MobileActive.org's Go-To Resource for Mobile Data Collection" is a roundup of resources, organized in five tabs: