Mark Charmer introduces the "what", "why" and "how" of Akvo to the audience at the Akvo Track Day in Nairobi. 23 May 2013.

3. What?

4. We build web and mobile tools,
which we run as a service, to help fix poverty.

6. The Akvo team

7. Headquartered in the Netherlands

8. 38Akvo people

13. Making it easy to form teams of people,
communicating across programmes

14. Training hundreds of users of Akvo RSR and FLOW

15. Why?

16. Where did the money go?

17. Knowledge is locked away

18. Reporting is ineffective

19. Funding is not transparent

20. Field surveys done by hand

21. How?

22. Akvo RSR stands for Really Simple Reporting. It’s a
web-based system that makes it easy for
development teams to bring projects online – on a
really big scale – and share progress with everyone
involved and interested.

23. Akvo. Shared systems

24. Akvo FLOW is a mobile phone and online service
that transforms field monitoring in the world’s
poorest and most remote places, using Android
smart phones.

27. AkvoOpenaid is a web-based tool designed to help
big aid organisations and government donors
publish large quantities of development aid data in
an easy to use, transparent format.

28. Akvopedia is a portal for online
knowledge on smart, low-cost
sustainable water and sanitation
technology and approaches.