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If you have pulled or downloaded this tool from EnAccess foundation before 12th Jan 2021, please make sure to update the latest version of google script and how to use guide to see new data importing features.
Energy access organizations do a lot of surveys to understand the potential customers, sites, and marketplaces. They often struggle to find platforms that can help in managing the data collected through different surveys. There is an initial question of what data platform to use, and later questions of: how to train staff on a given platform; how to integrate the platform into everyday operations and systems.How to ensure that the platform is kept up to date. We’ve noticed teams try out a tool or method for a few weeks or months before running into some kind of snag: pencil and paper surveys are hard to scale; a handful of apps are just short of perfect, and custom or enterprise-grade platforms can be costly.
While well-funded companies might contract 3rd party service providers to create both market and business intelligence on their behalf, early-stage companies usually can’t afford it. This leads to young organizations to build internal capacity for surveying the communities that they will be serving.
The Survey Toolkit, created by Devergy based on their own experience and challenges faced, provides a simple approach to collecting, analyzing, and presenting field survey data. The Survey design is created using Epicollect5.
Survey Toolkit published in Github provides following documents, to help organisations and companies to use this solution:
1. How to guide: Step by Step process with screen shot of every step to design survey forms using Epicollect5 web platform, downloading of these survey forms on Epicollect5 mobile application, data collection in the field, data syncing, importing of this data into google sheets including media files to google drive using google script and visualisation of the data in google map.
2. Video Guide: A video tutorial is also provided on how to use this survey tool kit for designing survey forms, downloading forms on mobile application, data collection and data syncing from the field, importing of the data and media files into google sheet and google drive by running a google script and visualisation of geo-tagging data on the google map.
3. Google script: Google script to import data into google sheet and media files into google drive.