Posts Tagged ‘research’
Thursday, May 20th, 2010
In early 2009, Grameen Foundation went to Uganda with the idea of creating a fluid and effective two way communication channel between rural farmers
CKWs in training
and the world of agricultural experts, development agencies, traders and commercial players. Through this loop, rural small holder farmers would be given livelihood saving agricultural information generated by the experts and the big players would keep informed on conditions on the farm from adoption of best practices to available produce for sale. (more…)
Tags: AppLab, CKW, Communication, Community Knowledge Worker, Farming, Gates Foundation, Grameen Foundation, ICT4D, ICTI, Innovation, Mobile, research, Technology, Uganda
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Friday, November 6th, 2009
Right now we’re in a planning phase—which ultimately means we’re wrestling with the “big” challenges that become even more significant at scale. We’re building partnerships to begin recruiting Community Knowledge Workers (CKWs) in early 2010 and that has me thinking about one of those challenges: how do we ensure that female farmers have an equal opportunity to participate as CKWs and that they have the same access to services offered through the CKW channel?
In the pilot we learned that women do most of the manual labor in farming in Uganda and will often be the decision makers when it comes to adopting new agronomic techniques. Our observations also show that they’re less likely to own their own phones and to approach a male CKW. During the pilot, 33% of CKWs were women, but if we really want to reach female farmers we will need to recruit equal women and men to participate in the program and ensure that both enjoy the same benefits. So how do we do it? (more…)
Tags: Agriculture, CKW, Community Knowledge Worker, Farming, ICT4D, Mobile, research, Technology
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Thursday, October 29th, 2009
Health Clinic Registration Desk
How do AppLab programs get started? How do you really understand the best way to address the problems that people in poor rural communities face? The approach we have consistently taken for AppLab projects is to conduct a broad “needs assessment” survey at the very outset of the project. We work with experts in ethnographic research who spend hours and hours interviewing people in the field. The end result is qualitative data which helps to guide and inform our project work. (more…)
Tags: "needs assessment", AppLab, Culture, Ghana, Grameen Foundation, Health, ICT4D, ICTI, Innovation, mHealth, MoTeCH, Pregnancy, research, SMS, survey, Technology, Uganda
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