Target Audience – Social service organizations, community development and NGOs.
Should they buy it? – Yes
Why? The software helps public sector and NGOs to collect accurate data but quickly and efficiently on many issues such as disease outbreaks, disaster relief and many other critical issues. It can create tailored questionnaires and later can be distributed to mobile phones using a normal mobile network. The field personnel can then fill up questionnaires and send them back to a central database and thus information will be collected easily. It also comes with Geo-Tag gata with GPS and hence is easy to track the field personnel.
Technical Specifications: This is a software, which will be made available to field personnel, and they would be equipped with Nokia E61 and Nokia E71 devices. It comes packed with geo-tag and GPS technologies. The Nokia Data gathering software will definitely help NGOs and public sector organizations.
Pricing and Availability: The software will be made available to public sector organizations in Brazil for now, and also for free.
What others are saying?
LBSZone says:
“With an emphasize on health care workers in developing countries, the data gathering service shows huge potential – particularly when you consider the massive level of mobile usage in these parts of the World.”
Source: Nokia