Today, KoboToolbox is the most widely used data collection and analysis platform in humanitarian assistance and protection and is used by multilateral agencies, such as the United Nations, the World Bank, as well as a host of NGOs, including the International Rescue Committee, Doctors Without Borders, and Save the Children. Cisco began supporting KoboToolbox in 2014, to launch v1.0, making the tool publicly available to humanitarian response organizations. New technologies like KoboToolbox have already impacted disaster resilience efforts.
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Enter KoboToolbox: a free, open-source software platform that works to improve data collection, management, visualization, and analysis in environments with weak or no infrastructure, and limited access to critical resources. With that, the need for assistance funding has increased, making it imperative to build tools that reduce costs, increase efficiency, and inform response activities. With more natural disasters happening, more than 26.6 million people have been displaced, also increasing humanitarian assistance needs. In the past, these needs assessments were often carried out manually in the field, which resulted in errors, complications in coordination, and delayed response times.Īccording to the World Meteorological Organization, climate change has driven a five-fold increase in extreme weather and natural disasters. When natural disasters, disease, war, and other major crises happen, it is critical for humanitarian organizations and relief agencies to quickly assess the situation, so aid workers can determine the appropriate response and allocate resources and aid effectively. partnered with CLEAR Global to develop audio capture technology, speech recognition technology, and machine learning translation that can be integrated into their humanitarian data collection platform - enabling organizations to improve response times, more efficiently distribute resources, and more easily share information to coordinate aide programming and relief efforts. With assistance of grant funding from Cisco Foundation, Kobo Inc. provides humanitarian aid workers with the tools they need to gather, manage, coordinate, and analyze data from interviewing displacement survivors, to be used to inform evidence-based programming and policymaking.
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