Introduction
Data collection has always been an integral part of development work. In the past, this task was performed with paper and pen, which made it prone to errors, difficult to conduct on a large-scale survey, and time and money consuming.

Information and communication technology (ICT) tools such as mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) and software allow users to create surveys, collect, manage and upload data to safe storage facilities in real-time. 

Who Should Attend?
This training course is suitable for organizations who are interested in learning how to collect and manage data using mobile devices for their general surveys, baseline and endline surveys, and project monitoring.

Duration: 2-4 Days

Course Objectives   
    a) The course will introduce participants to tools and techniques to collect data for survey and development projects using innovative mobile
        data gathering tools.   
    b) At the end of the course, participants will become familiar with using ICT tools and methods to conduct data collection and management.

Course Content  
    1) Introduction to mobile data collection systems architecture.     
    2) Introduction to common mobile based data collection tools, techniques and platform.     
    3) Benefits of mobile data collection.     
    4) Challenges of Mobile Based Data Collection.     
    5) Questionnaire design using ONA or KoBo Toolbox (you can choose one among two options).     
    6) Data hosting: creating an online account for uploading questionnaires and data storage.     
    7) The use of ODKCollect or KoBoCollect applications on smartphones or tablets to collect data.     
    8) Data monitoring during the survey.     
    9) Data extraction and management after the survey for data analysis.