Our latest ODK Central release which adds a feature many of you've been requesting: adding Entities from CSV!

If you have lists of the people, places, or things you want to build workflows around, you can now upload a CSV with that data to create Entities for use in your forms.

An early version of ODK Collect from 2008 running on the first Android phone. Should we bring the progress bar back?

4,633,015 vaccinated from polio in four days! Incredible work from Zimbabwe's MoH, UNICEF, and WHO. ODK was used for conducting the vaccination campaign itself, but it's also used for the environmental sampling that detected the outbreak that led to the campaign.

It was amazing to meet all the ODK Insiders for the first of our monthly calls! If you aren't yet an Insider, watch the recording to see how we are learning from each other and building the future of ODK.

At the Alliance for Malaria Prevention's annual meeting, I presented examples of how ODK is used at scale for disease control and demoed new features for longitudinal data collection. Missed the talk? See below.

Slides: allianceformalariaprevention.com/wp-content/upl…

Video: youtu.be/4fe5izNU65M&t=…

I love this clever approach to storing and querying ODK submissions in AWS. The ingenuity of the ODK community always blows me away.

Field teams can now collect a sample, enter data about that sample, and print a barcode of the entered data to attach to the sample. 🤯

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