Nokia Data Gathering: dealing with drought with a mobile phone
Few people know that we are engaged not only in the production of mobile phones and user services like Nokia Maps, but also in the development of socially useful technologies.
Many charitable and nongovernmental organizations constantly resort to collecting and analyzing various information from different groups of the population. To facilitate the survey process, we developed the free Nokia Data Gathering service , which allows you to conduct various surveys using an interviewer’s mobile phone and then send data at lightning speed for further processing.
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The technology works as follows. The organization creates the necessary profiles on the Nokia Data Gathering server, after which the already completed questionnaires are sent to the mobile phones of the interviewers. Then the interviewers interview people, filling out the questionnaires for them, and after filling in, they are automatically returned to the server via the Network, where information from all the questionnaires is accumulated, analyzed, linked to the map and exported to the usual “office” formats.
Example of creating a questionnaire
Thus, information gathering even in remote places is much faster, and for conducting surveys you no longer need to use laptops, tablets, and even more so paper questionnaires that are devoid of any mobility — they need to be returned to the analytical center for calculating statistics. Nokia Data Gathering has other advantages in front of the paper: the collection of information lies on the server, and not on the hands of hired employees who recount a bunch of questionnaires (which is extra money and time), and besides, this is just a more “green” way of collecting information without damaging the paper - all that is required is a Series 40 or Windows Phone based phone. Laptops, on the other hand, lose NDGs in terms of battery life, mobility and, often, inability to link a survey to a geographic location, which may be important in a number of cases.
Currently, Nokia Data Gathering is used by more than 200 non-governmental and charitable organizations, including WWF, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World Vision, Health Vigilance Foundation and others. Many of these organizations are unknown, but they are engaged in combating various diseases and natural disasters, provide people in need of assistance, the normal conditions for life. This activity is impossible without collecting different data, and we are glad that our Nokia Data Gathering technology helps these organizations do good deeds.
Many charitable and nongovernmental organizations constantly resort to collecting and analyzing various information from different groups of the population. To facilitate the survey process, we developed the free Nokia Data Gathering service , which allows you to conduct various surveys using an interviewer’s mobile phone and then send data at lightning speed for further processing.
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The technology works as follows. The organization creates the necessary profiles on the Nokia Data Gathering server, after which the already completed questionnaires are sent to the mobile phones of the interviewers. Then the interviewers interview people, filling out the questionnaires for them, and after filling in, they are automatically returned to the server via the Network, where information from all the questionnaires is accumulated, analyzed, linked to the map and exported to the usual “office” formats.
Example of creating a questionnaire
Thus, information gathering even in remote places is much faster, and for conducting surveys you no longer need to use laptops, tablets, and even more so paper questionnaires that are devoid of any mobility — they need to be returned to the analytical center for calculating statistics. Nokia Data Gathering has other advantages in front of the paper: the collection of information lies on the server, and not on the hands of hired employees who recount a bunch of questionnaires (which is extra money and time), and besides, this is just a more “green” way of collecting information without damaging the paper - all that is required is a Series 40 or Windows Phone based phone. Laptops, on the other hand, lose NDGs in terms of battery life, mobility and, often, inability to link a survey to a geographic location, which may be important in a number of cases.
Currently, Nokia Data Gathering is used by more than 200 non-governmental and charitable organizations, including WWF, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World Vision, Health Vigilance Foundation and others. Many of these organizations are unknown, but they are engaged in combating various diseases and natural disasters, provide people in need of assistance, the normal conditions for life. This activity is impossible without collecting different data, and we are glad that our Nokia Data Gathering technology helps these organizations do good deeds.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/149448/
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