In recent years, we have seen exponential growth in the number of U.S. and international REDCap partners. In 2018 alone, we added 575 new REDCap partners with approximately 2.75 international members for each U.S. request. More than 20% of REDCap partners are now located in countries designated as low-and middle-income by the World Bank. New telephone and SMS-based survey features, “offline” functionality via the REDCap mobile application for coordinators, and a separate mobile application (MyCap, https://www.projectmycap.org) for participants have enabled research data collection in settings unsuited to traditional web-based applications. International partnership has influenced the addition of new REDCap features including enhanced validation for country-specific data types, language abstraction enabling REDCap rendering in non-English languages, data transfer methods optimized for settings with poor network connectivity, and features in support of non-U.S. regulatory requirements (e.g., the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation). Recent work with major cloud vendors on deployment scripts and automated REDCap upgrade methods have created an opportunity for partners to set up REDCap installations in the cloud, thereby eliminating the need for on-site hardware and reducing local systems
