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📣 Exciting news for the KoboToolbox community! We are delighted to announce the upcoming launch of our new KoboToolbox XLSForm Fundamentals Course! 🌟 Developed by our dedicated team, this course is designed specifically for KoboToolbox users looking for a solid foundation in advanced form building with XLSForm and KoboToolbox. From creating an XLSForm from scratch to using form logic and calculations, you’ll gain key skills to enhance your survey creation. With hands-on lessons and videos for each topic, you’ll learn how to build complex survey forms and deploy them for data collection with KoboToolbox. When you complete the course, you’ll earn the official KoboToolbox XLSForm Fundamentals Course certificate! Interested in taking the course? Sign up for the early bird list by Friday, November 29, 2024 to get exclusive early access and a special discount! Sign up for early bird access here: https://lnkd.in/g-3BSTvj #KoboToolboxFundamentalsCourse #KoboAcademy #DataCollection #TrainingCourse #SelfPacedLearning

🎉 Sharing a special enrollment offer for the Cours d'initiation à KoboToolbox, our French Essentials Course! The Cours d'initiation à KoboToolbox aims to make our platform more accessible, promoting diversity and supporting our French-speaking users. 🌏 To celebrate this new learning resource, we’re offering a special 30% discount when you enroll by Friday, January 31! Go to the KoboToolbox Academy today and sign up using the coupon code LANCEMENT: https://lnkd.in/gA2ecT8A 🌟 🎉 Nous vous proposons une offre spéciale d'inscription au Cours d'initiation à KoboToolbox, notre Essentials Course en français ! Le Cours d'initiation à KoboToolbox vise à rendre notre plateforme plus accessible, à promouvoir la diversité et à soutenir nos utilisateurs francophones. 🌏 Pour célébrer cette nouvelle ressource d'apprentissage, nous offrons une réduction spéciale de 30% lorsque vous vous inscrivez avant le vendredi 31 janvier ! Rendez-vous sur le site de la KoboToolbox Academy dès aujourd'hui et inscrivez-vous en utilisant le code de réduction LANCEMENT : https://lnkd.in/gA2ecT8A

🌟 In November, our Technical Support Specialist Paula Alarcón Hoyos attended the United Nations World Data Forum in Medellín, Colombia. Now in its fifth year, the annual Forum is a key event for advancing innovation, fostering partnerships, and mobilizing resources to leverage data for sustainable development. Bringing together stakeholders, experts, and leaders from across the data and development spheres, the Forum is uniting the global community in a renewed commitment to achieve a sustainable future for everyone. 🌎 Thank you to the organizers, United Nations Statistics Division, and participants for the incredible opportunity to make new connections, collaborate, and gain new insights! #WorldDataForum #DataForGood #ResponsibleData #MEAL #DataEthics #DataVisualization

📣 Humanitarian Needs Assessment E-Learning Program: A free learning resource on KoboToolbox Academy! Designed specifically for humanitarian organizations, this online self-paced training offers a comprehensive overview of the needs assessment process, with the goal of supporting more impactful aid for communities in need. Co-developed by United Nations OCHA and Kobo, we are pleased to provide this training for free on KoboToolbox Academy, improving access to this important capacity building resource for nonprofits worldwide. 🌎 Learn more about this training: https://lnkd.in/geX6mhpA

🙌 This #GivingTuesday, support KoboToolbox and drive meaningful change! Over 16,000 nonprofits worldwide rely on KoboToolbox every day for humanitarian aid, development, health, human rights, environmental protection, and other social impact initiatives. Your donation helps frontline organizations collect the lifesaving data they need to deliver better outcomes for the world’s most vulnerable. Together, we can achieve data-driven change for communities in need. 🌎 Make a difference today: https://lnkd.in/eJ82aUm7 #donate #GivingTuesday2024

⭐ This #GivingTuesday, help make data-driven change a reality! Thousands of communities around the world urgently need humanitarian assistance, sustainable development, and essential healthcare. KoboToolbox gives frontline organizations the crucial data insights they need to deliver lifesaving assistance and critical resources. With your support, we can ensure nonprofits everywhere have access to the tools they need to create meaningful change. 🫶 On #GivingTuesday, donate to support our mission: https://lnkd.in/eJ82aUm7

Kobo’s Head of Research Jerome Marston, PhD recently had the opportunity to deliver a guest lecture at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). Speaking to Laura Perez’s “Education in Humanitarian Emergencies” class, Jerome highlighted the pivotal role of digital data collection platforms, like KoboToolbox, for monitoring, reporting, and preventing attacks against education. In the context of humanitarian emergencies and conflict zones, access to timely accurate data is crucial for protecting education from attack and informing response efforts. Thank you Columbia | SIPA for the invitation and for driving this important conversation! To learn more about how Kobo, Education Above All Foundation, the Global Coalition to Protect Education from Attack, and partners are helping protect education from attack, visit our blog: https://lnkd.in/gFwE56N8

🎉 Celebrating the 10 year anniversary of the official public launch of KoboToolbox in 2014! This month marks 10 years since KoboToolbox was made fully available to social impact organizations around the world for free on our public platform. We want to thank our incredible global user community and our partners for their continued support over the past decade. From our initial launch, we have now grown to over 50,000 active users monthly and over 230 million survey submissions collected in the last year. That means our users are collecting more data every day to make a difference in local communities worldwide. 🌎 Donate today to support Kobo’s mission of advancing positive social change with high quality data: https://lnkd.in/eJ82aUm7

🎉 Fantastic news! Kobo has been awarded a Four-Star rating from Charity Navigator! With an extensive database of over 225,000 nonprofits, Charity Navigator is one of the world’s largest and most trusted nonprofit evaluators. Their ratings are based on key metrics related to programming impact as well as financial sustainability, accountability, and transparency. The Four-Star rating is their highest recognition, awarded to organizations that exceed industry best practices and standards. For Kobo, this achievement is a significant milestone, demonstrating our continued commitment to advancing meaningful change for communities everywhere.  Thank you to our global user community, partners, and donors. Your trust and support help drive global impact. Learn more about Charity Navigator and our rating: https://lnkd.in/gT7y7vfk

⭐ Ambassadors Update: Madagascar ⭐ One of our 30 volunteer KoboToolbox Ambassadors, Mandranto Nantenaina Andriamanantsoa, recently hosted a community building meet-up with participants from organizations based in Antananarivo and Antsirabe. Facilitated entirely in the local language of Malagasy, Mandranto collaborated with leaders from the MAKIS Project, the DINAAMICC Project, and the Regional Department of Agriculture and Livestock Vakinankaratra to develop strategies for growing their local KoboToolbox user community. As key contributors to locally-led capacity building in the agriculture and rural development sectors, the participants aim to share their data collection expertise by providing training for organizations in the region. Please join us in congratulating Mandranto on this successful community building initiative! Learn more about the Ambassadors Program: https://lnkd.in/etkitkc8