SurveyCTO Press Releases
Blasting open the possibilities with SurveyCTO field plug-ins
Discover how to fully customize the appearance and functionality of questions in your survey form with field plug-ins.
Chris Robert
March 29, 2020
Author: Chris Robert
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Chris Robert
Founder
Chris is the founder of SurveyCTO. He now serves as Director and Founder Emeritus, supporting Dobility in a variety of part-time capacities. Over the course of Dobility’s first 10 years, he held several positions, including CEO, CTO, and Head of Product.
Before founding Dobility, he was involved in a long-term project to evaluate the impacts of microfinance in South India; developed online curriculum for a program to promote the use of evidence in policy-making in Pakistan and India; and taught statistics and policy analysis at the Harvard Kennedy School. Before that, he co-founded and helped grow an internet technology consultancy and led technology efforts for the top provider of software and hardware for multi-user bulletin board systems (the online systems most prominent before the Internet).
Industry Trends and Current Events
SurveyCTO Office Hours: Adapting global data collection projects in response to COVID-19
On April 1st, ask our founder and CEO your questions on how to use SurveyCTO for CATI data collection projects during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Chris Robert
March 23, 2020
Industry Trends and Current Events
Build smarter forms with server dataset workflows
Attend this webinar to learn how to build smarter forms by setting up versatile data collection workflows with SurveyCTO’s server dataset functionality.
Chris Robert
March 11, 2020
Industry Trends and Current Events
Searching for better data? Discover how fieldwork experts at IPA and Komaza take on data quality with SurveyCTO
Find out how leaders in the field use SurveyCTO to collect the highest quality data for impactful projects across the world.
Chris Robert
February 5, 2020
Industry Trends and Current Events
Join Dobility at EvalFest 2020 in New Delhi to explore evidence building for achieving SDGs
Check out our session on how machine learning and AI can accelerate your M&E and development efforts.
Chris Robert
February 5, 2020
SurveyCTO Press Releases
SurveyCTO-DevResults integration for powerful data visualizations
Learn how to connect your SurveyCTO-collected data to DevResults and create powerful project management dashboards and trackers.
Chris Robert
February 4, 2020
Data Collection & Data Quality
Name it like you mean it: Variable names for well-designed survey research
Tips on effective survey variable naming that supports and strengthens data analysis.
Chris Robert
December 18, 2019
Videos
Learn how to optimize your survey form with pre-loaded choice lists
Do you need to include lists of possible answers in your survey? In this webinar, you’ll learn how to save time by loading multiple choices from pre-loaded data into your SurveyCTO form.
Chris Robert
December 17, 2019
Data Analysis & Reporting
Organize media files quickly with our Stata command
Use Stata and SurveyCTO to manage your media files with ease.
Chris Robert
November 14, 2019
Data Management
4 things you didn’t know SurveyCTO Desktop can do!
See how SurveyCTO Desktop is the most powerful and flexible way to create your own workspace, export data, work offline, and manage projects.
Chris Robert
November 12, 2019
Industry Trends and Current Events
Optimize your survey form with pre-loaded choice lists
Do you need to include lists of possible answers in your survey? Attend this webinar to learn how to save time by loading multiple choices from pre-loaded data into your SurveyCTO form.
Chris Robert
October 31, 2019
Industry Trends and Current Events
Learn how to save time and enhance data quality by pre-loading data in our latest webinar
Does your survey project have pre-existing data? Attend this webinar to learn how to save time by pre-loading that data into your SurveyCTO forms.
Chris Robert
September 30, 2019
Industry Trends and Current Events
Learn how to efficiently export data and manage projects with SurveyCTO Desktop in our latest webinar
Attend this webinar to get introduced to SurveyCTO Desktop, the most flexible and powerful way to centralize your work, export your data, manage projects, and work offline.
Chris Robert
September 11, 2019
Industry Trends and Current Events
Dobility will be at MERL Tech 2019!
Check out our panels on best practices on collecting data in conflict-affected environments and developing MERL tech solutions.
Chris Robert
August 5, 2019
Data Security & Residency
Capital One, AWS, and data security: The world will come around to our approach
Breaches happen. Take advantage of our comprehensive security features and encrypt your sensitive data.
Chris Robert
July 31, 2019
Industry Trends and Current Events
Learn how to update your household rosters over time in SurveyCTO’s latest webinar
Suppose the household members in your survey project change over time? Attend this webinar to learn how to capture household changes and improve the quality of your data with SurveyCTO.
Chris Robert
July 22, 2019
SurveyCTO Press Releases
Dobility India is becoming Trestle Research and Consulting
Learn about Trestle Research and Consulting, and how Dobility is changing how it grows its business and engagement in India.
Chris Robert
July 2, 2019
Data Management
Ready to automate? IDinsight shares its integrations and workflows for household survey project management
Discover how IDinsight uses SurveyCTO integrations and workflows to automate and decentralize survey project management.
Chris Robert
June 26, 2019
Data Collection & Data Quality
6 ways to validate your survey responses and improve data quality
Validate your survey responses and enhance data quality by using SurveyCTO’s constraint expressions.
Chris Robert
May 1, 2019
Videos
Form testing interface: Better surveys in less time
You can’t collect good data without a good survey form. And you can’t deploy a good survey form without rigorously testing it. SurveyCTO’s form testing interface allows you to test your forms faster, easier, and more thoroughly
Chris Robert
April 15, 2019
SurveyCTO Press Releases
Meet your support team: Amrik Cooper on his passion for customer success
Get to know Amrik Cooper, fearless leader of our stellar support team.
Chris Robert
March 25, 2019