Kobo Inc. is the international nonprofit organization behind KoboToolbox, the world’s most popular data collection tool for challenging settings. Our mission is to provide highly usable tools for creating data-driven social impact.
Previously a project at the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, Kobo is now an independent nonprofit organization registered in Cambridge, MA, USA with a dynamic global team working remotely from countries around the world. KoboToolbox is used by more than 32,000 non-governmental and international organizations in 240 countries and territories worldwide. Our tools are used by organizations working in humanitarian action, global development, environmental protection, peacebuilding, human rights, and many other social impact initiatives. KoboToolbox is publicly available as open source software, and we provide the KoboToolbox platform for free to nonprofit organizations, giving countless projects around the world access to high quality data.
Kobo is in its second year of a 5-year strategic plan, and we are focused on building and implementing new features and programs to support KoboToolbox users, expand training for users globally, and position Kobo as the go-to data research tool for industries including and beyond our current user base. Without Kobo, thousands of organizations would not be able to collect and assess their impact and effectiveness, or effectively gather information directly from the communities they serve.
