BACK: What is your project's objective?

1.2 Why do you need a technology tool to achieve this objective?

example

We want to find a mobile data collection tool that will let clinic users rate how well a clinic met their needs by sending an SMS message. It should be able to send this information to us in a format that we can use and analyse.

We hope it will improve the project in three ways: it could encourage more people to send feedback because it is easy for them to send an SMS; it could allow us to access information faster than if we used on a paper feedback form; and it could give us data that is easier to process, analyse and use in our advocacy.

case study

An organisation wanted to speed up its collection of data from community monitors, which they had being doing using paper, scanning and email. However, the tool they introduced actually slowed things down. It took longer to format the data from the form than it had when collecting it on paper.

tips

>What do we mean by 'tool'?
Alidade is designed to help choose technology tools including:

- internet-based software such as websites and mobile applications
- online platforms such as Facebook or Twitter
- tools that use messaging apps, SMS and USSD
- hardware such as GPS devices and tablets
- finished (“off-the-shelf”) products
- custom-built for a particular project

resources

The Transparency and Accountability Initiative’s Fundamentals guide has a lot of useful information about all the things that you need to think about when choosing tools.

Aspiration has developed a Request for Proposal (RFP) template which you can use as a resource and starting point if you are looking to solicit proposals with prospective implementors.

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1.2 Why do you need a technology tool to achieve this objective?