How KoboToolbox and Purposeful’s radio drama show support girls’ resistance in Sierra Leone

Purposeful, a feminist hub based in Sierra Leone, was able to stay connected with over 15,000 girls throughout the country during COVID-19 by loading the KoboCollect app onto 700 smartphones and distributing them to over 700 mentors for their Girls' Circle program.

By Purposeful and Kobo

The Syrian Refugee Crisis in Lebanon and how KoboToolbox is aiding humanitarian efforts

Despite shifting global attention toward the COVID-19 pandemic throughout 2020 and 2021, the war devastating Syria and its people drags on. The lives of millions of Syrians fleeing for safety continues to be precarious and their futures uncertain.

By Joshua Beretta

TWB and Kobo Inc develop speech recognition technology to capture voices of speakers of marginalized languages

Translators without Borders (TWB) and Kobo with funding from the Cisco Foundation, will develop automatic speech recognition technology to help humanitarians better collect data from speakers of marginalized languages in low-literacy contexts.

By Kobo

Documenting Attacks on Health Care in Syria

PHR has systematically documented these war crimes since the start of the Syrian conflict. In 2018, PHR began using KoboToolbox as its primary data collection tool for this project and within a year of being implemented, KoBoToolbox has already proven to greatly simplify PHR's existing data collection and reporting workflow. Before making the switch, PHR's data was divided into at least 10 different datasets, due to various people over the years working on the project and collecting data in different ways and formats.

By Serene Murad