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CAPTURE

DFA provides powerful tools to collect data from both traditional and nontraditional sources.
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AdminISTRATIVE RECORDS

Strengthen existing administrative systems in education, health, and other sectors.  Collect relevant data, check for data quality, and rapidly feedback data to users.   Build appropriate data disaggregation into the forms used to collect administrative data to respond to the needs of the sector and national reporting.
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Survey 

Create data collection forms to collect survey on the web and by mobile phones.  Manage the incoming data to transform the responses into key performance indicators for decision makers.
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​SMS

Design and launch SMS data capture campaigns using basic mobile phones to send questions and capture responses in real time. Communicate by SMS text messages, and by voice, using interactive voice response (IVR) technology. Manage the incoming data to transform the responses into information for decision support.  
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LOGISTICS

​Track the supply chain management of commodities (text books, medicines) from the producer, to the warehouse, to the delivery service, and finally to the beneficiary.  Use SMS notifications to engage beneficiaries and ensure transparency and accountability.  Use barcode scanning to identify each unit delivered.
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Check LIST

​Create an interactive checklist for supervisors to use to monitor key service delivery criteria.  Set data triggers to send e-alerts by SMS / email in order to provide supportive supervision in realtime.
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WIFI CONNECT

​Establish a battery-powered wireless access point to extend wi-fi services to users without reliable internet access in order to deploy offline DFA applications, such as, monitoring information systems and learning systems.  Synchronize the data captured on the access point once it is reconnected to the Internet. Upload new multimedia learning content from the Internet, to be used offline.
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​SMART DEVICES

​Capture data from smart digital devices to track events in real time, including medical devices for monitoring fetal pulse rate, and environmental devices for monitoring temperature, pollution levels, and other important data. 
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BIG DATA CAPTURE

Capture rapidly growing data sets relevant to socio-economic development through a broad range of new information-sensing technologies, including website clickstreams, mobile devices, aerial remote sensing, software logs, cameras, microphones, radio-frequency identification (RFID) readers and wireless sensor networks.
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GEO DATA CAPTURE

​Capture GPS data from mobile devices to track events in real time by linking programme data to geo-referenced maps.
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PLATFORM
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