Field Sight - remote monitoring platform for rural constructions

Designed and developped in Nepal Innovation Lab

Humanitarian

FieldSight is the first humanitarian digital platform designed for project monitoring and infrastructure quality assurance. Developed iteratively over 2 years, the platform is now being used to monitor more than 50,000 houses, WASH sites, schools, police stations, and other infrastructure. Built to work on mobile devices and in remote and difficult-to-access locations, FieldSight creates actionable data and interfaces that help partners deliver higher-quality, lower-risk projects.

What is it?

Field Sight, project launched by UNOPS and World Vision in August 2016, is an open source web-based and mobile project management platform which monitors humanitarian, development and construction projects in rural places.

Today, supervising those projects is time-consuming and costly. On top, the problems of lack of transparency and mismanagement generate projects’ duplication and spoilt investment.

Thanks to Field Sight, construction project management in those areas can be executed remotely and with transparency: the project manager in the city can assist and educate the sight supervisors and contractors located on the field via forms and easy-to-use education materials embedded in the app.

How do they interact with the workshop?

The 5-people team uses the lab for its space and its incubator services: coaching and assistance to develop their Business Model, networking, funding …

Today, 5 pilots are in progress with development organizations such as Oxfam, DFID or UNOPS and involve more than 450 users and 250 sites.

What is next?

Currently in talk with US Aid to use the solution in Afghanistan and Algeria, FieldSight plans to develop the platform final version by the end of June.

Lastly, to balance their business model they might target private construction companies late 2017.

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