*This solution description wasn't provided by it's owner.
This solution participated in a Driver+ Trial

Provider(s):

You must log in in order to see contact information. If you don't have an account, you can ask for one on this form.
Free, open-source tool for conducting polls using text messages.

Pollit is a free, open-source for conducting polls using text messages. Step-by-step, Pollit guides participants through polls and collects real-time results. Pollit shrinks the between audiences and pollers, taking the pulse of the people anytime and anywhere there’s mobile phone service. Pollit was most recently used by WFP to conduct food security surveys with refugees in the DRC and Somalia.

Supported Use Cases

Conduct survey

Pollit is a free, open-source for conducting polls using text messages. Step-by-step, Pollit guides participants through polls and collects real-time results. Pollit shrinks the between audiences and pollers, taking the pulse of the people anytime and anywhere there’s mobile phone service.

Related CM functions

Survey
Innovation stage
Readiness
Crisis Cycle Phase
Crisis size
Illustrations
Pollit surveys
Solution references

SOR-ReDur-2020-05-08

Faced with information collection challenges in DRC and Somalia, WFP’s mobile Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping (mVAM) team worked with InSTEDD open source mobile and voice technologies to improve timely data collection, regarding food supply and access. The tools were utilized to communicate with the displaced population facing the food scarcity situation. Using these tools and support from the InSTEDD platform team, mVAM rapidly created voice-based surveys and automated information hotlines that informed and allowed for feedback, regardless of literacy and language barriers of the end user. Through this work, the WFP mVAM team conducted surveys that are “quicker, cheaper” and “safer” than traditional tools.

External reference
https://instedd.org/project/food-security-surveys-with-refugees/

Similar Solutions

There are no similar solutions. (211/211)
eu Portfolio of Solutions web site has been initially developed in the scope of DRIVER+ project. Today, the service is managed by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH., for the benefit of the European Management. PoS is endorsed and supported by the Disaster Competence Network Austria (DCNA) as well as by the STAMINA and TeamAware H2020 projects.