Below are a few of the deployments of ODK we know about. If you would like to add yours, send an email to contact@opendatakit.org.
If you are looking for a company to build a form or customize an ODK tool, try this list of ODK implementation companies.
International Space Station
- Astronaut Ronald Garan uses ODK to monitor progress on the Carbon for Water program. See this post for more.
Afghanistan
- ODK was used in Afghanistan for fraud monitoring of the 2010 elections.
- Afghanistan Infrastructure Data Center tracks and reports on civilian and military donor infrastructure projects using ODK.
Australia
- CloudTech uses ODK in their Smap-Suite data collection system for RMIT and World Vision Australia.
Brazil
- ULevel provides customizations on Collect for Android.
- The Surui Tribe in partnership with the Amazon Conservation Team and Google.org is piloting ODK for deforestation monitoring in the Amazon.
- University of São Paulo's School of Engineering and School of Medicine use ODK as one of its key tools for epidemiological studies.
- PPGSC-UCPEL is using ODK to conduct surveys on sociodemographics, history of health problems, family history of psychiatric disorders, structured interview for mental and behavioral disorders, quality of life, global functioning, current and childhood trauma, use and dependence of substances, among others.
Canada
- PeaceWorks, a software consultancy, is supporting Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA) with the usage of ODK.
- Radical Dynamic has built Group Complete from ODK and CouchDB. Their system allows for real-time and collaborative data collection.
Central African Republic
- Harvard Humanitarian Institute has completed over 1800 hours of surveys documenting human rights violations using Kobo -- a tool built from ODK.
Chile
- Joaquin Blaya is using ODK as part of a strategy to commercialize open source health IT.
Columbia
- Instituto de Hidrología, Meteorología y Estudios Ambientales (IDEAM) uses ODK for data capture.
Denmark
- ViewWorld in partnership with Danish NGOs and companies are developing better reporting tools using ODK.
Ghana
- Lumana uses ODK to map villages, survey clients, and calculate the poverty indices of the communities they serve.
- Johns Hopkins Global Water Program uses ODK for longitudinal water surveys.
Haiti
- Haiti Regeneration Initiative is piloting ODK to monitor agricultural practices, crop productivity, and farmer yields of crops.
- Person Finder Mobile provided an ODK-based tool to collect data on missing people from the 2010 earthquake.
India
- EarlySail customized ODK Collect for a few pilot projects as well as assisted in form development. They will soon be porting ODK to BlackBerry.
- ICTPH enrolled 3,000 households (12,500 individuals) for a comprehensive primary healthcare delivery model in Tamil, Nadu. See report for more.
- PATH is piloting ODK for use as a digital birthing assistant with clinical decision support, management of patient information, and as a tool for communication and education.
- ODK is being used in UC Berkeley's Health in Hands project in Mumbai and Karnataka.
- UNICEF and the children of Kolkata are mapping their community with ODK.
Kenya
- Kiva is using ODK to collect profile information.
- Mega Six Solutions has experience designing forms.
- Bankable Frontier Associates is using ODK to conduct surveys that support their clients in their efforts to expand financial services to the poor.
- Indepth Research provides implementation services for ODK.
- Manna Energy and Vestergaard Frandsen are using 4000 ODK-enabled phones to collect 40000 forms a day for the Carbon for Water program.
- USAID-AMPATH uses hundreds of phones with ODK for home-based HIV counseling and testing of millions of rural Kenyans and transmits the data to OpenMRS.
- Datadyne's Episurveyor mobile data collection client for Android is built from ODK.
- UN Refugee Agency and CartONG used ODK for a mosquito net survey in Dadaab, Kenya.
- Mindflow Associates provides customization services to connect ODK and OpenMRS.
- Village Enterprise uses ODK to monitor their programs and efficiently collect targeting information to ensure their services are reaching the extreme poor. ODK is helping to accelerate the growth of their Microenterprise Development Tool .
Lesotho
- SARPAM uses ODK in Lesotho, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi, Tanzania and DRC to track drug availability.
Liberia
- Harvard Humanitarian Institute documents human rights violations using Kobo -- a tool built from ODK.
Malawi
- Invest in Knowledge is using ODK for home-based HIV counseling, testing and survey of 2,000 couples. Invest in Knowledge also provides implementation services for ODK.
Mali
- AED-SATELLIFE collects information about school decentralization using ODK.
- Columbia University researchers successfully used and positively reviewed ODK in an agroforestry adoption study.
Mozambique
- Dimagi and Afrisis used ODK for a 400 question household survey in Mozambique that over three months sent 15000 submissions to their DataHQ server.
- openLMIS is a supply chain and cold chain management system from VillageReach that uses ODK form filling.
Myanmar
- TSF uses ODK for improving the process of data collection, data analysis and information sharing between key food security stakeholders in Myanmar.
Nicaragua
- The Sustainable Sciences Institute, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, uses ODK for tracking patients and their biological samples for research on dengue and influenza.
Nigeria
- The Millennium Villages Project uses ODK in Nigeria for surveying and designed XLS2XForms, an ODK compliant tool.
Pakistan
- City Pulse is using ODK to collect data about 'elements at risk' in flood plain areas of Indus River.
- ODK has been used to gather socio-economic data of flood affected families in Southern Punjab
- PakistanGIS team have been capacitating university researchers to increase usage of ODK for improving efficiency and accuracy in data collection for their research.
Philippines
- Phillipine's Department of Trade and Industry has mapped over 700 tourist sites on the island of Bohol.
- Wireless Access for Health collects data with ODK.
- The German International Cooperation (GIZ) under its Sustainable Tourism Sector Project engaged nGNUity.net to design forms and provide implementation support for data collection used in sustainability assessments of the tourism sector in Bohol and Cebu.
Slovakia
- Acquee is web-based platform for collecting structured data. The platform uses ODK Collect as an Android client.
South Africa
- Seeing Swans have performed 12,000 survey of informal structures in the Western Cape. Their customized ODK Aggregate provides real-time reporting and statistics.
- Wharton School of Business is using ODK in a three year survey to study health and entrepreneurship in townships around Tshwane.
- There is ongoing work to port CyberTracker's data collection tools to the ODK platform.
Sweden
- LETS GO is using ODK in fostering high school student learning in teams in environmental science.
Tanzania
- AfSIS is mapping soil conditions with ODK.
- Jane Goodall Institute and Google.org are piloting ODK for forest health monitoring.
- D-Tree is piloting ODK and the IMCI protocol for triaging children under five and for collecting maternal health data.
- REPSSI and Norvatis Foundation piloted ODK in Tanzania. REPSSI helps address the psychosocial needs of the over six million children affected by the triple crisis in southern Africa.
- Camfed monitors programmes within 4 districts using ODK Collect on Google Nexus 7 Tablets - Interviewed on average 3000 people while collecting information.
Uganda
- Makerere University's machine learning group uses ODK for automated diagnosis and mapping cassava mosaic disease.
- Daniel Kayiwa's PurcForms form designer and OpenMRS XForms module connects to ODK.
- Grameen Foundation AppLab integrates ODK and Salesforce.com to provide real-time monitoring and evaluation of community knowledge workers.
- Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education uses ODK to improve provider communication and education through their eMOCHA project.
- Project Wet and MIT evaluated IVR data collection interfaces for untrained rural teachers using ODK.
- Village Enterprise uses ODK to monitor their programs and efficiently collect targeting information to ensure their services are reaching the extreme poor. ODK is helping to accelerate the growth of their Microenterprise Development Tool .
United States
- Nafundi is a consulting company started by the guys who created Open Data Kit. If you need professional support or customization, they can help.
- North Central Wisconsin Regional Planning Commission uses ODK to collect data in the field for assessment information after a natural hazard like storm, flood or tornado.
- New York City (with InSTEDD) uses ODK to gather emergency preparedness and response-related data in the field.
- Foundatron in Seattle uses ODK to collect field data.
- WebFirst has built an mHealth solution using ODK and Drupal 7.
- Dimagi has combined ODK and CommCare support community health workers from the PACTprogram in Boston.
- ODK is both a research and teaching platform at the University of Washington.
- The Transit, Technology, and Public Participation project in North Dakota has chosen ODK to manage surveys of transit workers.
- Rhiza Insight provides geospatial analysis and visualization tools as well has ruggedized mobile devices for ODK.
- The NatureMapping program at the University of Washington uses ODK for building multimedia-rich species maps.
- SanaMobile from MIT is integrating their mobile client with ODK.
- Small Meadows Farm is using ODK to collect pH, humidity, soil moisture, and plant observations in greenhouses and gardens.
- Trinity College expanded the XForms controller in Sahana Eden for ODK support.
- doForms is an ODK-based data collection solution for businesses.
- Alan Plummer Associates utilizes ODK for several municipal clients. Typical projects collect utility (water, wastewater, stormwater) pipeline condition information for risk-based asset management.
- Urban Strategies Council in Oakland, CA is using ODK to collect detailed property condition information in low-income neighborhoods devastated by home foreclosures. A June 2012 report chronicles their research evaluating the socio-economic impacts of the rise of investor-owned housing in the wake of the foreclosure crisis.
Zanzibar
- D-Tree is using ODK in a UNICEF-funded project to better to identify and treat severely malnourished children.
- Vetaid is using ODK for collecting animal health information from 50 farms and 400 animals.
Zambia
- SANGONet use ODK for monitoring and evaluation in their agricultural work.
Zimbabwe
- ICT at RTI uses ODK, JavaRosa and FrontlineSMS for data collection.
- Camfed monitors programmes within 6 districts using ODK Collect on Google Nexus 7 Tablets - Interviewed on average 6000 people while collecting information.
