For some time, we’ve had an ambition to leverage the platform provided by Mobile Researcher to do more than simply collect data. We felt that the ability for ordinary mobile phone users to download and use the mobile application provided a great opportunity to involve them in something significant.

Back in 2006, we began work on a solution for conducting surveys using low end mobile phones to assist a South African NGO – the Health Systems Trust – with a rural research project. The solution could not rely on stable network connectivity and needed to support surveys of significant length and complexity.