ClimMob

Online software for agricultural citizen science

  • Organize large-scale experiments.
  • Invite participation of thousands of volunteering citizen scientists: farmers, consumers and others.
  • Test different technology options, such as crop varieties, food products, or agronomic practices.
  • Streamline the experimental cycle with electronic forms and barcodes.
  • Get quick insights from extensive automatic reports.
  • Use a suite of open-source tools to gain in-depth understanding trends and patterns.

The tricot approach

The tricot approach

ClimMob supports a novel approach to citizen science: the tricot approach. Tricot approach simplifies the experimental process.

Digital Researchers and citizen scientists collaborate digitally using ClimMob. Digital communication saves time and money.
Robust From a pool of technology options, ClimMob randomly assigns each participant a combination of three options to test. This way, each option is tested many times.
Representative Participants test technology options under real use conditions, such as their own field or kitchen.
Simple Participants mainly use ranking (ordering from best to worst) to report their results.
Insightful ClimMob lets you joins all the data and applies sophisticated statistical analytics at the touch of a button.
Fast Participants and researchers immediately get the information back and can start to discuss the results!
Scientific The tricot approach has been tested scientifically across many research projects.

Tricot stands for ‘triadic comparison of technology options’. The approach derives it name from the fact that citizen scientists compare multiple technology options in sub-sets of just three, in ‘triads’.

Click here for more information about the tricot approach.

Software

Software

Plan and design your tricot experiment with ClimMob version 3 [https://climmob.net/climmob3/login]. This is the newest version of ClimMob. It is free to use.

For collecting data on mobile devices, field agents will use the free ‘ODK Collect’ app. You can grab it from the [Google Application Store].

Partners

Partners

The development of ClimMob and the scientific research behind the tricot approach has been possible thanks to investments by the following partners:

  • CGIAR Research Programme on Climate, Agriculture and Food Security.
  • United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
  • Collaborative Crop Research Program, McKnight Foundation.
  • Department of International Development, United Kingdom (now: Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office).
  • CGIAR Research Programme on Roots, Tubers and Bananas.
  • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

Contact

Contact the ClimMob team

bioversityclimmob@gmail.com