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.
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
- 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.
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.
Nigeria
- The Millennium Villages Project uses ODK in Nigeria for surveying and designed XLS2XForms, an ODK compliant tool.
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.
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.
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.
United States
- 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 PACT program 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.
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.
