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- ** KoboCollect** : fork of ODK, same mobile app essentially, but different back end.
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Has a slightly complicated relationship with ODK, formerly taking from the
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- community and not giving back. However, they now contribute financially to ODK,
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- and definitely have some great ideas in this field. In our opinion, ODK is more
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- innovative in pushing field data collection forward though. Kobo do provide a
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- free public server backed by the UN, as a general public good, and is widely
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- adopted as a result.
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- - ** Ona** : proprietary software, with a slightly shady history of building open-source
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- tools using NGO money, then changing the license to a closed model. Were legally
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- forced to open-source the original work done, but everything since has been closed.
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- Have since done some great work around data management and analytics, however,
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+ community and not giving back. In our opinion, ODK is more innovative in pushing
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+ field data collection forward. Kobo do provide a free public server backed by the
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+ UN, as a general public good, and is widely adopted as a result.
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+ - ** Ona** : proprietary software that also has a difficult relationship with Kobo.
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+ The history is complex, but at some point Ona had to become closed-source and
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+ paid software. Since then they have open-sourced their code again, and have
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+ done some great work around data management and analytics, however,
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their main objective is not the same as FMTM: coordinating field mapping.
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- ** ODK** : I won't cover much here, as we talk about it a lot elsewhere.
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of Kobo, could (and should) probably support the Kobo data collection app going
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forward.
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- This does raise challenges, as new features integrated in ODK Collect take approx
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- 3 months to be integrated into KoboCollect.
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+ 6 months to be integrated into KoboCollect.
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@@ -177,10 +175,11 @@ collection ecosystem. Instead, it is a higher level tool, aimed at
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HOT also aims to provide am equivalent free ODK data collection server:
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[https://odk.hotosm.org](https://odk.hotosm.org)
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- - The Kobo backend is currently (2024) a Python application based on the original
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- ODK Aggregate backend of ODK. The Kobo backend became much better than ODK's over
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- time. However, ODK have since completely overhauled their backend to a Node server
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- called ODK Collect, which is rock-solid and much more advanced than the competition.
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+ - The Kobo backend is currently (2024) a Python application based an old open-source
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+ tool called FormHub. The functionality of Kobo's and ODK's backends has diverged
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+ significantly over time. However, recently ODK have completely overhauled their
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+ backend to a Node server called ODK Central, which is rock-solid and much more
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+ advanced than the competition.
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- The Kobo web-based form builder is still a big differentiator between the tools,
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as it is much more user-friendly (less technical) than ODK's requirement to know
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XLSForm language. However the capability of the web form builder is much less
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