Introduction
Data collection has always been an integral part of development work. In the past, these tasks were performed with paper and pen, which made them prone to error, difficult to conduct on a large scale, and high in transaction costs. ICT tools such as mobile devices and software that allows users to create surveys, collect, manage and upload data to storage facilities in real-time, have reduced the conventional challenges associated with remote data collection. If you have always wanted to learn how to collect, manage and analyze project data using mobile devices, this training course is for you. This training course also comes with an additional GIS module to help participants put the skills acquired into perspective. The GIS module will help participants work with spatial data. Survey CTO is a set of tools that are used for field data collection either online and offline using android devices (phones and tablets) or web browsers and allows data submission to an online cloud server. These tools include Survey CTO Server, XLS Forms, Survey CTO Sync, Survey CTO Collect for mobile (android) data collection and Survey CTO web-based data collection for online data collection using a web browser. Survey CTO is part of a large collection of mobile data collection tools that were inspired by the ODK Open Rosa Consortium. ODK tools include ODK Collect, ODK Build, XLS Form, ODK Aggregate and ODK Manage as the major components. Other tools in the ODK ecosystem include ODK Briefcase, ODK Aggregate VM, ODK XLS Form Converter, ODK Validate, GEOODK, ODK Scanner, ODK Printers and the ODK Sensor Framework.