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Decentralized deployment

June 24, 2020

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Safe People + Data

  1. Continuing to collect data - safely
  2. Adapting with a mix of tools & methods
  3. Sharing best practices & resources
  4. Develop new tools, share resources & expertise (in papers, webinars)

Get involved:

safepeople@surveycto.com

surveycto.com/safe-people-and-data/

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Overview

  • What is decentralized deployment?
  • How to recruit remotely
  • How to onboard teams remotely
  • How to train remotely research teams
  • How supervisors can remotely accompany interviews

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Decentralized deployment

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Decentralized deployment

  • Getting your team, devices, and software up and running with minimal contact
  • Recruiting and interviewing remotely
  • Training enumerators remotely
  • Using devices on-hand (including personal devices)
  • Remotely configuring devices

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Remote recruitment

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Remote recruitment

  • Survey firms
  • Past enumerators
  • Online job adverts
  • Labor brokers / staff agencies
  • In-country intermediaries
  • Ideas from the audience?

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Decentralized deployment with SurveyCTO Collect

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Setting up Collect

Steps to set up SurveyCTO Collect:

  1. Installation (on Play Store)�
  2. Connecting to the server (General Settings)�
  3. Configuring settings (General Settings and Admin Settings)�
  4. Downloading forms (Get Blank Form)

Couldn't this be simpler… ? Yes! 😄

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New features:

  1. Quick setup�
  2. Default device configurations

Only available for the early release version of Collect for Android

Time for a demo!

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Quick setup

New features:

  1. Quick setup�
  2. Default device configurations:
    1. Settings
    2. Forms
    3. Cases dataset

Only available for the early release version 2.70.3+ of Collect for Android

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Quick setup - step 1

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Quick setup - step 1

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Quick setup - step 1

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Quick setup - step 1

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Quick setup - step 1

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Quick setup - step 1

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Quick setup - step 1

yourservername

yourusername

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Quick setup summary

  1. Create a default device configuration for a user role for a new project.�
  2. Choose whether to add device settings and other defaults including forms.�
  3. Send out quick setup links to enumerators.�
  4. Enumerators install SurveyCTO Collect, and run setup setup.�
  5. Ready to go!

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Remote training

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Remote training objectives

  • Learning objectives and outcomes
  • How the data collection system works: controls, what to do when X happens, etc
  • Comprehension of a.) how the study works, and b.) the research itself

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Remote accompaniment

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Remote accompaniment

  1. Focus on CATI: the alternative interviewer-mediated option
  2. Call recording using audio auditing, Twilio or Exotel
  3. Remote accompaniment for calls
    1. Conference calling
    2. Direct listening in
    3. Like direct supervision

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Questions?

Please provide feedback!

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Thank you!