World Vision Project
SPEED EVIDENCE EVALUATION
June 2014 CONTENTS
CONTENTS
• Objectives
• Summary and Analysis
• Matrices
- Products Against Features
- Products Against Standards
• Appendices
- Appendix A - List of Products Evaluated and Included in the Matrix
- Appendix B - List of Products Evaluated and Excluded from the Matrix
- Appendix C - List of Features by Product for Products in the Matrix
OBJECTIVES
OBJECTIVES
Based on the features of Speed Evidence
• Identify and evaluate products that are able to deliver similar and extended functionality
• Compare products using a matrix of products against features
SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
It is important to note that this research not based upon first hand experience of the products but on information gleaned from websites and case studies, in some cases inferences were made.
• Matrix of products against features
- 28 products evaluated against Speed Evidence
- Products are evaluated against 33 features under 8 headings
• Features
- The 33 features are listed under specific headings
- E.g. Uploading/downloading surveys, Sends bulk SMS, Twitter feeds, Geo- located data, Easy to manage contacts, Set notifications, Free & easy to set up
SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
●Headings
- The 8 headings are assessments, SMS, emails, data feeds, mapping, data management, user experience and other
• Top 3 platforms by features
- Speed Evidence 31/33 features, 8/8 headings
- Ushahidi 21/33 features and 8/8 headings
- Palantir Gotham 15/33 features and 7/8 headings
• Palantir Gotham is a possible alternative to the Ushahidi platform for Speed Evidence
SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS CONTINUED
• Speed Evidence, its component tools, Palantir Gotham, and View World are the only products that handle both assessment data and internet data feeds
• Speed Evidence, its component tools, and Managing News have the highest information and knowledge management standards (Matrix - Products Against Standards)
• Top 13 products ranked by number of features are as follows:
Explanation: This is the full list of Features by Products with Points by Feature and Points by Heading listed at the top. They are ordered in descending order of Points by Feature. COSTS FOR PRODUCTS THAT ARE NOT FREE • DataWinners - $299/month (https://www.datawinners.com/en/pricing/)
• Dimagi CommCareHQ - POA (http://www.commcarehq.org/software- plans/)
• ESRI ArcGIS - POA (https://www.arcgis.com/features/plans/pricing.html)
• Geofeedia - POA (http://geofeedia.com/request-a-demo)
• Magpi - $10,000/year (https://datadyne.zendesk.com/entries/21093588-cost-of-episurveyor)
• Palantir Gotham - POA (http://www.palantir.com/contact/)
• View World - POA (http://www.viewworld.net/plans/)
POA = Price on application
MATRIX Products Against Features
MATRICES EXPLAINED
For each section we have highlighted 2 products that we feel are most inline with Speed Evidence needs.
• Matrices by Features
- Platforms
- Survey Building and Data Management
- SMS
- Mapping and Data Feeds
• For more details see these appendices
- Appendix A - List of Products Evaluated and Included in the Matrix
- Appendix C - List of Features by Product for Products in the Matrix
PLATFORMS
• Whilst Palantir Gotham is an impressive alternative to Ushahidi, the costs of using the platform are not clear, whereas Ushahidi is a free, tried and tested platform.
SURVEY BUILDING AND DATA MANAGEMENT
• Akvo FLOW is a reputable product with widespread usage. It is part of an umbrella organisation for international aid/development technology including Akvo RSR, Akvo OpenAid, and AkvoPedia; all of these combined provide a powerful tool for assessing and sharing data.
• With OpenDataKit creation of forms is simple, and collecting and
aggregating data can done both with and without internet connectivity. SMS
• InSTEDD GeoChat facilitates geolocated communication over email, Twitter, and real-time chat, as well as SMS. They have also developed relationships with several local mobile operators to reduce SMS costs.
• RapidSMS is an award-winning product that’s highly customisable so will integrate easily with other data management tools.
MAPPING AND DATA FEEDS
• Geofeedia provides a clear interface for searching and viewing time- stamped, location-tagged social media including Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa and Instagram.
• Ushahidi CrowdMap is the only product that accepts all relevant data feeds and can dynamically update the data to a map.
MATRIX Products Against Standards
STANDARDS EXPLAINED
• Source of standards -Information and Knowledge Management for Disaster Risk Reduction (IKM4DRR) Framework and Scorecard1 • Purpose is to guide the initiation, creation and sustainability of IKM for DRR at all levels in order to -address current issues in working with IKM -improve, efficiency and interoperability of IKM for DRR efforts
REFERENCE 1. UNISDR 2013. Information Management for Disaster Risk Reduction (IKM4DRR) Framework and Scorecard. Accessed on 11 June 2014 from http://www.unisdr.org/files/35238_ikm4drrframeworkscorecard.pdf.
PRODUCTS AGAINST STANDARDS
PRODUCTS AGAINST STANDARDS CONTINUED
APPENDIX A List of Products Evaluated
PRODUCTS EVALUATED
Akvo FLOW Managing News Akvo RSR MicroMappers Clickatell OpenDataKit DataWinners OpenStreetMap Dimagi CommCareHQ OpenXData ESRI ArcGIS Palantir Gotham FrontlineSMS / Cloud RapidSMS G-MoN SMAP Geofeedia Speed Evidence Google Earth Ushahidi Google Fusion Tables Ushahidi CrisisNet InSTEDD GeoChat Ushahidi CrowdMap InSTEDD Riff Ushahidi SwiftRiver LifeRay View World Magpi TOTAL 29
APPENDIX B List of Products Evaluated and Excluded from the Matrix
PRODUCTS EVALUATED AND EXCLUDED FROM MATRIX
CrowdFlower Disaster Reporter Global Disaster Alert and Coordination System (GDACS) Google Crisis Response Google GeoModel HelpBridge InfoAsAid Instant Act Navvi PyBossa SyriaDeeply Zooniverse TOTAL 12
These products were excluded either due to insufficient information or because they were deemed inapplicable.
APPENDIX C List of Features by Product for Products in the Matrix
AKVO FLOW (http://akvo.org/products/akvoflow/)
- Inputs: Assessments
- Features: - Additional notes:
● Internet-based management tools ● History
○ design surveys with varied content, including ○ first version of FLOW developed by Water for People, US NGO, in 2010 ■ photos ○ further development by Akvo from ■ videos 2012 onwards
■ barcodes ● Open source, GitHub repository
■ audio clips ○ manage how they are distributed to smartphones
● FLOW field survey app on Android smartphones
○ data collection
■ geographically referenced data
■ phones can store hundreds of surveys and data can be collected in areas where there is no mobile connection
■ once a connection is detected, data is automatically transmitted to databases hosted in the cloud and appear in the programme dashboard real time analysis and map interface display
● Dashboard and Maps
○ manage phone users
○ create surveys
○ produce reports in a number of formats ranging from Excel spreadsheets to maps, histograms and pie charts
AKVO RSR (REALLY SIMPLE REPORTING) (http://akvo.org/products/rsr/)
- Input: Activity reporting, photos, text and video
- Features:
● Online service ● Automatic generation of location map ● Direct donations via PayPal and iDEAL ● A web page for each of your projects ● Deal with multiple sources funding, support ○ brand your own way and field implementation
○ searchable ● User permissions
○ contents ● Filter by sector, location, partner and keyword ■ what’s happening, when and where? ● Ability to deep dive to find out about or ■ funding chain donate to any project in detail
■ project updates ● Akvo Widgets allow your partners and funders to quickly and easily embed as ○ embed into your own website structure much of your content as they want into ● Mobile Android app - Akvo RSR Up - and simple interface their own sites
○ allows support and field staff to enter project information and ● Akvo RSR API allows you to automatically pull data from RSR into your own online updates easily and directly - including photos, text and video - systems and display it however you like. using their smartphone, tablet or computer
○ post updates wherever you are regardless of signal strength, updates upload automatically when a signal returns
AKVO RSR CONTINUED
- Additional notes:
● Akvo RSR is a Django-based content management system designed to allow users to create, manage, and host their database of projects and programmes easily and publicly
● Features seem better suited to a simple ongoing project site rather than to a rapid response platform
● Open source, GitHub repository
CLICKATELL (http://www.clickatell.co.uk/)
-Input: SMS
- Features:
● Bulk SMS service
● Set reminders
● Free to use, but text emssages themselves cost (http://www.clickatell.co.uk/message-pricing/)
● Has various APIs
DATAWINNERS (https://www.datawinners.com/en/home/, http://datawinners.wordpress.com/)
- Input: Assessments
- Features:
● Unlimited data for one monthly fee
● Collect data on SMS, smartphone, web or offline
● Uses local numbers to reduce costs
● Questionnaire builder - SMS/Web/Smartphone
● Contacts list for people and places (including GPS coordinates)
● Automates deadlines and reminders
● Data visualization tools such as maps, graphs and charts
● Filterable data and able to export to excel
● Cloud based
● Multilingual customer support
- Additional notes:
● Only accepts sms from registered numbers
- Cost:
● $299/month (https://www.datawinners.com/en/pricing/)
DIMAGI COMMCARE HQ (http://www.commcarehq.org/)
- Input: Assessments
- Features:
● Job aid for mobile workforces
● Free and open source software application with mobile and cloud infrastructure
● Tool for supervision and evidence-based change
● Captures data in an electronic repository
● Creates forms
● Data analysis tools (charts, graphs etc.)
● Operates offline
● SMS deployment tool
● Uploads/downloads forms
● Forms can be downloaded to excel or other applications
● Forms can collect dates, multiple choice, images, video, bar codes and GPS coordinates
● Their CommCareSense interface tailors the application for low-literate users to decrease reliance on text and emphasizes visual cues
● Manage users
● Automated SMS reminder tool
● Free up to 50 mobile workers. Pricing plan: http://www.commcarehq.org/software-plans/
● Open source: https://github.com/dimagi/commcare-hq
- Cost: POA (http://www.commcarehq.org/software-plans/)
ESRI ARCGIS (http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/features, https://www.arcgis.com/features/)
- Input: Geographical data
- Features: ● Flexible Platform ● Mapping ○ use ArcGIS Server and Portal on your local network ○ compile geographic data ○ use ArcGIS Online ○ perform spatial analysis ○ or use both of the above ○ share geographical data online ○ when using online, you can use as much or as little as ● Analysis you need, turn it on when you need it and off when you ○ combine information from many do not independent layers by applying a rich ○ expand when necessary set of spatial operation ○ reduce risk and startup time ○ program your own ideas and apply your results to a wide range of ○ start new projects rapidly problems ● Enable Your Enterprise ● Geographic Data Management ○ enterprise ready ○ build, manage, and share geographic ○ manage and share massive volumes of geographic data, information using features and tabular imagery, and Lidar with any number of users data, imagery, online maps, 3D, and much more. ○ integrate with other enterprise technology
○ manage and share enterprise ○ control security and access information collections across your ○ grow your system with your local network or in a hosted organization cloud environment
ESRI ARCGIS CONTINUED
- Features:
● Customise Your Experience
○ build your own custom apps
○ extend ArcGIS by developing custom buttons, tools, menus, add-ins, and extension
● Share Your Work
- Additional notes:
● Not open source
- Cost: POA (https://www.arcgis.com/features/plans/pricing.html)
FRONTLINESMS/CLOUD (http://www.frontlinesms.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/frontlinesms_userguide.pdf)
- Input: SMS
- Features:
● Create and manage SMS-related contact groups
● Send and receive messages via special on-screen consoles
● Provide incoming and outgoing message history for each contact
● Engage with contact groups (e.g. surveys, contests)
● Manage a text-based information service with automated responses
● Export information to Excel and .csv for analysis
- Additional notes
● Free for the SMS version only, not the cloud version
● Third party tools: SMSSync
G-MON (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.carknue.gmon2)
- Input: Wifi and 2G/3G hot spots
- Features:
● Locates best spots for network connectivity
● Stores them for view offline
GEOFEEDIA (http://geofeedia.com/ http://irevolution.net/2012/06/03/geofeedia-for-crisis-mapping/)
- Input: Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Flickr, Picasa, Instagram, Viddy
- Features:
● Provides a map of selected area/region
● Collates information from different social media (see list above) from the selected area
● Filter by date, keywords, time etc
● Translation services
● Analytics and data export
- Additional notes:
● Tool used to display different types of social media for a given region
● Not open source
- Cost: POA (http://geofeedia.com/request-a-demo)
GOOGLE EARTH (http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en_uk/earth/)
- Input: Maps
- Features:
● Map plugin
● Customisable maps
GOOGLE FUSION TABLES (https://support.google.com/fusiontables/answer/2571232)
- Input: Assessments
- Features:
● Visualise large tables online
○ find public data
○ import your own data
■ from spreadsheets, CSV files, or even KML
■ use Fusion Tables API to insert, update, delete and query data programmatically
■ export data as CSV or KML too
○ visualise data instantly
○ publish visualised data on other web properties
● Combine your data with other data on the web
○ automatic updating of merged table
○ publish a subset of rows or columns with designated share permissions
○ build on public data sets
○ keep track of who owns what
● Make a map in minutes
○ turn location tables into maps
○ find the story in your data
○ share the map
GOOGLE FUSION TABLES CONTINUED
- Features:
● Host data online - and stay in control
○ fusion tables is like an online file format
○ when data is hosted in Fusion Tables, viewers will always see the latest version, their charts and maps will automatically update when you improve your data set
○ enabled API allowing the developer community to access your data whenever you give permission
- Additional Notes:
● An experimental data visualisation web application to gather, visualize, and share data tables
INSTEDD GEOCHAT (http://instedd.org/technologies/geochat/)
- Input: SMS, email, Twitter
- Features:
● Create, join and participate in chat groups by SMS, email, or web browser
● Translate location names sent by users to a position on a map
● Supports a variety of explicit location formats, as well as other user-defined tags
● Subscribe a group to one or more RSS/ATOM feeds, and each new item will be broadcast to mobile users via SMS
● Groups may be set as public or private
● GeoChat Server is available both as a free download and as a hosted service
● Twitter access via “geochat”, and domestic US gateway service via 44911
● Dedicated international SMS gateway supported by 95% of the world’s mobile carriers
● Optional “local gateway” mini-client that allows you to plug a local cell phone into your laptop, connect to the Internet, and allow user to send and receive text messages through the service via the local cell network, rather than using the international gateway
INSTEDD RIFF (http://instedd.org/technologies/riff/)
- Inputs: RSS, twitter, news, SMS, and email feeds
- Features:
● Create collaborative work spaces, invite colleagues, subscribe to data sources you choose to monitor
● Interact securely with your team to sift through the data stream for emerging events
● Annotate items with tags, comments, ratings, links, locations, files, alerts, and other social metadata
● Autonomous agents perform data fusion, feature extractions, classification, tagging, and geo-coding
● Integrated hypothesis formation, visualisation, and machine learning
LIFERAY (https://www.liferay.com/)
- Input: Framework
- Features:
● Portal, identity and content targeting
● social collaboration and integration
● content, documents and workflow
● responsive design and mobile app sdk
● Open source
● Lots of documentation
● Easy to add social media feeds
● Highly customisable
MAGPI (http://www.datadyne.org/magpi-mobile/, https://datadyne.zendesk.com/entries/30649423-Getting-Started-with- Messaging, https://www.dropbox.com/s/t517mzslei9vy6b/magpi-brief.pdf)
- Input: Assessments
- Features: Additional notes:
● Data collection ● Formerly EpiSurveyor
○ create or import forms ● Pricing options:
● Messaging, send outgoing messages/notifications in any language ○ free
○ modes of messaging ○ pro $500/month or $5000/year
■ SMS ○ enterprise $10,000/year
■ text-to-speed ● Cloud-based, self-service
■ recorded audio - Cost: $10,000/year (https://datadyne.zendesk.com/entries/21 ○ timing options 093588-cost-of-episurveyor) ■ ad hoc
■ timed, one-time or repeated
● Create reports, including mapping functionality
● Export reports to txt, xls and other formats
● Manage contacts
● Share forms and data
● Set roles and privileges
● Customisable
-
MANAGING NEWS (http://managingnews.com/about, https://drupal.org/project/managingnews)
- Input: News
- Features:
● Aggregate RSS/Atom news
● Show news as list or on a map
● Search news
● Republish news by bundling articles into channels
● Configurable location tagging
● Configurable maps
- Additional notes:
● A product of Phase2 Technology
● Third party tools: Context, Chaos Tools, Data, Devel, Diff, Drupal, Extractor, Feature, Feeds, Flot, Geotaxonomy, ImageAPI, ImageCache, Jake, Libraries, MN About, MN Core, MN Search, MN Channels, MN Widgets, MN World, OpenID Admin, OpenLayers, Porterstemmer, Schema, Simplepie, Stored Views, Strongman, Tao, Views, Views modes, Views RSS
MICROMAPPERS (http://irevolution.net/2013/09/18/micromappers/)
- Input: Crowd sourced social media filtering
- Features:
● A collection of 4 apps:
○ TweetClicker: volunteers can tag tweets based on categories specified by the organisation.
○ ImageClicker: volunteers can tag pictures on social media based on categories specified by the organisation. Images are automatically pulled from Twitter.
○ TweetGeoClicker: volunteers can geo-tag tweets
○ ImageGeoClicker: volunteers can geo-tag images from social media that were not geo-tagged automatically.
OPENDATAKIT (http://opendatakit.org/about/tools/)
- Input: Data in forms
- Features by tools:
● Build - ODK Build enables users to generate forms using a drag-and-drop form designer. Build is implemented as an HTML5 web-based application and targets the common use case of a simple form.
● Collect (see entry below)
● Aggregate (see entry below)
● Form Uploader - ODK Form Uploader easily upload a blank form and its media files to ODK Aggregate.
● Briefcase - ODK Briefcase is the best way to transfer data from Collect and Aggregate.
● Validate - ODK Validate ensures that you have a OpenRosa compliant form -- one that will also work with all the ODK tools.
● XLS2XForm - ODK XLS2XForm allow XForms to be designed with Excel.
- Additional notes
● Supercedes J2ME application
OPENDATAKIT AGGREGATE (http://opendatakit.org/use/aggregate/)
- Input: Data forms
- Features:
● ready to deploy server and data repository
● provides blank forms to ODK Collect (or other OpenRosa clients)
● accept finalised forms (submissions) from ODK Collect and manage collected data
● visualise the collected data using maps and simple graphs
● export data (e.g., as CSV files for spreadsheets, or as KML files for Google Earth), and publish data to external systems (e.g., Google Spreadsheets or Google Fusion Tables)
● can run on Google's reliable and free infrastructure as well as on local servers backed by MySQL and PostgreSQL
OPENDATAKIT COLLECT (http://opendatakit.org/use/collect/)
- Input: Data forms
- Features:
- ODK Collect is powerful phone-based replacement for your paper forms. Collect is built on the Android platform and can collect a variety of form data types: text, location, photos, video, audio, and barcodes:
● data types:
○ text
○ location
○ photos
○ video
○ audio
○ barcodes
● renders forms into a sequence of input prompts that apply form logic, entry constraints, and repeating sub-structures
● users work through the prompts and can save the submission at any point
● finalised submissions can be sent to (and new forms downloaded from a server
● uses Android platform
● supports a wide variety of prompts (text, number, location, multimedia, barcodes)
● works well without network connectivity
OPENSTREETMAP (http://www.openstreetmap.org/, http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Main_Page, http://switch2osm.org/)
- Input: Map
- Features:
● An initiative to create and provide free geographic data
● Uses local knowledge to improve accuracy of maps
● Crowd sourced/community driven
● Open data as long as OSM is credited
● Free tagging system
OPENXDATA (http://www.openxdata.org/)
- Input: Data collection
- Features:
● Visual form designer including
○ skip logic
○ answer validation
○ dynamic selection, multimedia, and GPS
● Administer users to control access to studies, forms, and data
● Export data to a csv for analysis, or live to database tables
● Collect data on a wide range of devices
○ desktop computer through the internet
○ on a basic java-enabled phone, e.g. Nokia 1680 ~$35
○ geo-tagged & multimedia data, e.g. Nokia 2710 ~$150
- Additional notes:
● Open source
PALANTIR GOTHAM (http://www.palantir.com/platforms/#gotham, http://www.palantir.com/2013/11/how-were-building-an- information-infrastructure-for-typhoon-haiyan-response-operations/)
- Input: Analytics platform ● Nexus Peering
- Features by component tools: ○ share and refine data by ● Palantir Workspace synchronising across Palantir instances in a way that preserves ○ intuitive user interface consistency, integrity and security
○ accomplish analytical activities, from simple queries to advanced ● Revisioning Database modelling ○ every shred of data is tagged with ● Phoenix an extensible set of metadata, ○ server technology including properties like
○ conduct investigations across the fusion of cyber, transactional and ■ analyst contextual data at scales from terabytes up to petabytes ■ source
● Dynamic Ontology ■ confidence
○ connect to and understand thousands of types of data relevant to ■ classification your work ○ every change to every bit of data ○ create a customised, flexible analytics technology by defining your can be tracked and revisioned own objects, properties, events and links - Cost: POA ● Raptor (http://www.palantir.com/contact/)
○ simultaneously search multiple databases ○ run a federated search of databases without having to consolidate data on a specific server or instance
PALANTIR GOTHAM CONTINUED
- Features by component tools:
● Palantir Forward ● Horizon
○ stay connected in situations without connectivity ○ visualise and drill down into different properties, sub-second, top-down “haystack ○ retain full functionality of Gotham and essential information to needle” analysis across massive data sets
○ synchronise data when instance returns to a network ○ view temporal and spatial patterns and ● Palantir Mobile combine different filters and visualisations
○ real-time Blue Force Tracking (GPS) ○ view scatter plots to analyse and explore trends ○ data collection
○ collaboration between mobile and base users
○ requires dedicated devices
○ depends on cellular connectivity
● Palantir MIMOSA (Mini MObile SAtellite)
○ Satellite-based version of Palantir Mobile
● Privacy and Civil Liberties Protections
○ precision data control
○ maintenance of data provenance
○ robust accountability mechanisms
PALANTIR GOTHAM CONTINUED
- Additional notes:
● Open and extensible platform
● Works within your IT infrastructure, complementing existing capabilities and integrating data to which you have access
● Diverse data integration methods - from direct import to federated search to Web services:
○ standard data sources
■ file system
■ RSS
○ extended data sources
■ message queues
■ HTML (web crawling)
● Open data export options and API access to all data in the system - no vendor lock-in
RAPIDSMS (https://www.rapidsms.org/about/, http://rapidsms.readthedocs.org/en/develop/intro/overview.html, http://rapidsms.readthedocs.org/en/develop/)
- Input: SMS
- Features:
● Use of basic mobile phones
● Dynamic data collection
● Logistics coordination and communication
○ Streaming complex workflows
○ Easy integration with existing workflows
○ Group communication
● Web interface
○ for presenting information on the Internet as soon as it is received
○ for creating, updating, and deleting RapidSMS contacts
○ for sending messages to contacts
● Easy data export to excel for
○ further analysis
○ database queries
○ communication with other software systems
● Horizontal and vertical scalability
● Easily customisable
- Additional notes:
● Open source, freely available under BSD license
● A framework for building highly customisable apps SMAP (http://nap2000.wordpress.com/, http://code.google.com/p/smap-suite/, http://www.smap.com.au/, https://www.youtube.com/user/ianaf4you?feature=watch)
- Input: Assessments
- Features:
● Geo-spatial visualisation and interaction
● Task management
○ Selecting the location of a task by clicking on a map.
○ Updating or validating existing results. In this case the location of the task will be set by the location of the existing data.
○ Users can reject or accept a task
○ Tasks can be completed on an Android phone using field Task
● Analysis
○ The dashboard can display multiple maps, tables, graphs and media views simultaneously each in their own panel.
● Data cleansing
● Data collection using Open Data Kit (ODK) Collect on Android phones
● Web forms
● Multi-tenant ● Exports ● Reports ● Export Unicode to Excel ○ Create ● Server side calculations ○ View (single report and a list of reports) ● Facebook integration ○ Edit
○ Delete
○ Publish
SMAP CONTINUED
● Security
○ User authentication
○ Network encryption
● Cost effectiveness
○ Low cost
○ Flexibility
- Additional notes:
● Open source, Google repository
● Third party tools:
○ LINKS Codebook
○ Open Data Kit (ODK) Collect
○ OpenStreetMap
● SMAP ?scanned map
SMSSYNC (USED WITH FRONTLINESMS) (http://www.ushahidi.com/product/smssync/)
- Input: SMS
- Features:
● Scheduler to auto sync pending messages.
● Pending and sent message views.
● Configurable auto-reply messages.
● Instant auto-reply messages from server.
● Import existing messages from inbox.
● Keyword based SMS filtering.
● Multiple languages.
● Task scheduling.
● Multiple Sync URLs.
● Filter by phone number. Either Whitelist or Blacklist a phone number.
● HTTP basic authentication support in Sync URLs.
● Logviewer to see the activities on the application.
SPEED EVIDENCE (http://speedevidence.wordpress.com/about/)
- Inputs: Assessments, SMSs, emails, web feeds (RSS, twitter and other websites)
- Features:
● Validates, analyses and reports incoming data
● Real time analysis and reporting, including mapping functionality
● Customisable
- Additional notes:
● Uses open source third party tools
○ FrontlineSMS
○ Ushahidi
○ SMAP
USHAHIDI (http://www.ushahidi.com/product/ushahidi/, https://wiki.ushahidi.com/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=294916)
- Input: Data feeds (SMS, Twitter, RSS feeds, Email, web-forms)
- Features:
● Free and open source
● Interactive mapping
● Dynamic timeline
○ track reports on the map and over time
○ filter data by time
○ see when things happen and where
● Multiple data streams
○ collect information via text messages, email, twitter and web-forms
- Additional notes:
● Assumptions:
○ http://oxford.wv.ushahidi.com/admin/comments - comment section within reports tab in Speed Evidence is taken as a Q&A forum and has been marked accordingly in the features matrix
○ application is customisable at an admin level, however, does not appear to be so at the user level.
○ http://oxford.wv.ushahidi.com/admin/manage/sharing - sharing equate to the export facility?
USHAHIDI CRISISNET (http://www.ushahidi.com/product/crisisnet/, https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/CrisisNET+Architecture)
- Input: Crisis data
- Features:
● Crisis data, at your fingertips: a consolidated source of global crisis data
● Consistent, simple: find, format, and expose crisis data in a simple, intuitive structure that accessible anywhere
● Not just for data nerds: easy setup using a few lines of code
● Tested: Syria project retrieved 10k+ social media posts per day while monitoring thousands of YouTube channels and hundreds of Facebook pages
- Additional notes:
● Architecture, three primary components
○ Sucka - retrieves data from the Internet or local filesystem
■ source documents stored in the application database consisting of location, authentication credentials, how frequently information should be retrieved, etc
■ source document is interpreted by a suckamodule that performs the retrieval and transforms the data into the structure expected throughout the system, an item
■ customisable
○ Grimlock - a processing pipeline which transforms/arguments documents
■ needs jobs from a redis queue
■ retrieves documents from the application datastore and passes those documents through a series of tasks to add metadata like geospatial information, categorisation/classification, etc.
○ CrisisNET - a REST API
■ handles user registration/authentication
■ exposes a REST API for retrieving item based on query parameters USHAHIDI CROWDMAP (http://www.ushahidi.com/product/crowdmap/)
- Input: Web browsing data
- Features:
● Create immersive maps
○ quickly pin new or existing posts, then dive into your interactive full-screen map
● Effortlessly add media
○ publish text, photos, and multimedia to any map from any web-browsing device
● Follow maps you like
○ keep up with the latest posts from maps and people you are interested in
● Search the crowd
○ find real-time information from anywhere in the world, about any topic
USHAHIDI SWIFTRIVER (http://www.ushahidi.com/product/swiftriver/, https://wiki.ushahidi.com/display/WIKI/SwiftRiver)
- Input: Data feeds
- Features:
● Intelligence from the Web
○ curate real-time data and analysis on any topic of interest relevant to you or your organization
● Analysis and Insight
○ discover nascent relationships and trends in data sets that may appear to be unrelated
● Brand Monitoring
○ setup streams that search for mentions of your brand or product online and manage social media campaigns (e.g. Twitter, SMS, email) from on dashboard
● Add Context to Content
○ add context to content using semantic analysis
○ auto-categorize and classify email, twitter, text messages or new articles based on keywords
VIEWWORLD (http://www.viewworld.net/features/)
- Input: Assessments and observations
- Features:
● Mobile app ○ ○ data entry types: data entry modes: ■ ■ text select ■ ■ numbers multi-select ■ ■ GPS barcode ■ ■ picture date/time ■ ■ video yes/no ○ ■ sound user interface: ■ ■ metadata page break ■ ■ collection of numbers explanation text ■ form link ■ inspection link (under development)
■ map view of data
■ enter observation from map
VIEWWORLD CONTINUED
● Mobile app (continued) ● Form
○ data collection management: ○ drag and drop formbuilder
■ save drafts ○ making questions required
■ synchronise now ○ give a hint to a user
■ offline data collection ○ set default value to a fields
■ set fixed synchronisation ○ set a range for field value
■ status on phone: Draft (?) ○ locked form in hierarki
○ platforms/operating systems (mixed functionality ○ apply form to different languages depending on which): ○ copy own forms ■ android ○ copy fields in form ■ iOS ○ use existing template forms
○ apply forms to specific groups
VIEWWORLD CONTINUED
● Observations collection and management
○ make observations online
○ edit observations
○ import existing data by .csv
○ delete observations
○ inbox observation stream
○ verification of observations
○ approval steps
■ awaiting review
■ verified
■ declined
● Organisational features:
○ assign roles to users
○ build organisational hierarchy
○ role of editor
○ add user
○ add group
VIEWWORLD CONTINUED
● Data processing - Additional notes: ○ data views ● Product fee structure: ■ list ○ free (limited features) ■ gallery ○ professional ■ map ○ organisation (full functionality) ○ export maps by link ● Chrome app ○ free search in data ● Access to how-to videos ○ filter in content of fields ● Launch guides ○ filter through groups and users ● Translation to custom languages ○ build your own feeds ● Access to API ○ export data to .csv - Cost: POA ○ export data through filters (http://www.viewworld.net/plans/)
○ make charts on live data
○ dashboard with project performance
○ save filters
○ branching of questions (under development)
○ colour codes on maps (under development)
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