1. TDW-11: 24-28th April 2017, Noumea, New Caledonia
Tails
Mobile Data Entry App
TDW-11: th April 2017, Noumea, New Caledonia

2. Overview Tails Application How is it different than OnBoard?
What is Tails?
What does it do?
How does it work?
Benefits of Tails

3. Tails is not OnBoard Tails has to be used by one of your officers
It allows the entry of multiple forms
Forms list customisable per country
Hint: if you are on a boat, you should use OnBoard
Android

4. What is Tails? Tails SPC mobile and tablet application
Allows remote data entry
An alternative to old paper forms
Available in English or French
Android

5. What does it do? Replaces your fisheries officers paper forms
All artisanal fisheries forms
Logsheet
Vessel Activity Log
Vessel registration
Longline port sampling
Longline unnloading
You decide which form you want for your country

7. How does it work? What are the details? Same as OnBoard!
Android app, available in the Google Play store
Fully secured through user accounts (pin codes and programmatic checking soon)
Linked to SPC’s Tufman 2 database
Enter data offline, upload whenever internet is available

8. Tails Phone or Tablet Internet < 10KB (about the size of a
“are the fish biting?” .
Pretty simple, you’ve all seen e-reporting before
Tufman 2

9. Why use it? Tails Easy to use and learn Still works on bad internet
Updated and improved all the time
Good for national fisheries staff
Data quality checks for better data
Multiple language support
ODK before, Tails is better integrated with VFD’s national database so your data collection will be easier for VFD to use for decision making and reporting
Tails already in use in Vanuatu so makes sense to have one app for all the data collectors – keep it simple and unified

10. Thank You
Any questions?