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Data collection in a wired world: The Indaba Fieldwork Platform

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What is Indaba?  Software-as-a-service platform with the following

purpose: management of projects / input of content and communication in collaborative projects  Easy to customise so that the project, not the software determines workflow and who gets access to what and when

 100% online tool that lives in the cloud; accessed via

browser  Uses low bandwidth

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Why Indaba?  Previously, many organisations used Microsoft word and

excel to collect data  Problems:

 Difficult to track changes over time, different versions etc  Labour intensive  Sticky notes become default tracking system/human error huge

 Indaba helps to solve challenges associated with

managing larger teams that are not physically sitting together in the same room. Physically  Making project workflows 100% transparent to all team

members  Easy to track progress  Presenting project managers and contributors with simple, realtime updates of where all their content is

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Tracking Progress

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Benefits continued…..  Indaba empowers project managers by automating many

project management tasks via automated emails and alerts to contributors ( deadline reminders, queuing tasks etc)  NGOs and research organizations empowered to publish their content to the web without needing a technical team of web designers. Content published out of Indaba using our web widgets and application programming interface (API). No need to worry about differing versions of content floating around the web. www.getindaba.org

Tracking Progress Your Inbox: deadline reminders, alerts & group messages. Via email.

Project Updates: visibility into other people’s progress.

A sense of community. www.getindaba.org

In conclusion  Indaba eliminates the risk of information getting    

lost/forgotten Data collection and methodology made 100% transparent Transparent workflow ensures everyone knows the process from the beginning (in short-who does what when) Works best when the work flow is predictable and can be determined before hand It does not yet integrate sms platforms although this can be built into the software & we would incorporate existing technologies like Ushahidi …. Rather than build from scratch

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