| Title | Mobile phones and water point mapping |
| Publication Type | Miscellaneous |
| Year of Publication | 2011 |
| Authors | Collaborative, RWSCRural Wate |
| Secondary Title | Quick read / Rural Water Supplies Collaborative |
| Volume | 1 |
| Pagination | 4 p.; 2 fig. |
| Date Published | 2011-08-01 |
| Publisher | Rural Water Supplies Collaborative, RWSC |
| Place Published | S.l. |
| Keywords | communication, communications media, data analysis, data processing, geographic information systems, information and communication technologies, mapping |
| Abstract | Several software applications incorporate recent advances in information and communication technology (ICT) to improve information-gathering about water points. Among these applications, FLOW (Field-Level Operations Watch) is notable because it was developed specifically for water point mapping. With FLOW, enumerators use Android phones to enter data about each water point, and take its picture and GPS coordinates. The data can be analyzed and visualized using additional capabilities of FLOW. Another software option is EpiSurveyor. It is easy to use and the free online version is adequate for most data collection needs. The data could then be imported into FLOW, which has better analysis and visualization capabilities, or into another specialized application such as SPSS or Tableau. [authors abstract] |
| Custom 1 | 160, 201 |
