CyberTracker

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CyberTracker is software from a South African non-profit company, CyberTracker Conservation, that develops handheld data capture solutions.{{Cite web|url=http://www.cybertracker.org/|title=CyberTracker GPS Field Data Collection System - Home|last=Carike|website=www.cybertracker.org|language=en-gb|access-date=2017-08-31}}

The software was first developed as a way to allow illiterate animal trackers to communicate their environmental observations. A prototype was used in 2002 to record details of animals killed in an outbreak of ebola.{{cite web |url= http://www.economist.com/node/2745545?story_id=2745545 |title=Conservation: Hunter-programmers |work=The Economist |date=10 June 2004 |accessdate=21 August 2013}} It has since evolved to become a general purpose data capture and visualization system.{{cite web |url=http://www.environment.gov.au/indigenous/cybertracker/ |title=National Indigenous Ranger CyberTracker Project |work=Australian Government – Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities |accessdate=21 August 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116141744/http://www.environment.gov.au/indigenous/cybertracker/ |archive-date=16 January 2014 |url-status=dead }} However, it retains the ability to be used by illiterate and low-literate users.

CyberTracker's primary user base is wildlife biologists, conservationists and disaster relief workers.