To keep myself occupied while impatiently waiting for the first wave of baseline survey data to appear in my inbox yesterday, I put together this map of the wards of Dar es Salaam that are included in our sample (see our sampling procedure). In each selected ward, between 15 and 30 interviews are conducted, depending on the number of selected mtaas within each ward. Click on the image to load the map in Google Maps.
@Darmobilesurvey
- #Tanzania The Guardian reports on our recent findings on citizens' changing #food consumption in #Dar tinyurl.com/c5qz2h6 - 5 days ago
- #Tanzania Less citizens in #Dar access to clean #water than in January: Get our latest brief on consumption & poverty. listeningtodar.org - 2 weeks ago
- #Tanzania World Bank Global Monitoring Report draws on our findings on changing #consumption patterns (see report p.33) tinyurl.com/bvru93n - 3 weeks ago
- #Tanzania Absent teachers: #Dar children report 1 in 4 English classes never took place. Get latest education report at listeningtodar.org - 1 month ago
- #Tanzania Visit our brand new site, access our #data and #PublicServices reports and let us know what you think! listeningtodar.org - 1 month ago
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posts
- dressing up nicely to move into the next phase
- moving into round 10
- findings on reliability of power grid picked by The Guardian (TZ)
- getting the word out (and the numbers)
- monitoring public service in the city
- some USSD testing and some delays
- so here we are
- and…we’re back
- Breaking the silence
- Finishing baseline & preparing mobile follow-ups
facts & background
- Daily News “Tanzania’s mobile telephone industry now accounts for five per cent of mobile phone subscribers in sub-Saharan Africa.”
- BBC online “We visit Tanzania where mobile phones are taking the country by storm, although only one in 10 houses has electricity.”
- factsheet Tanzania & ICTs (World Bank)
- official telecom statistics Tanzania (Tanzania Communications Regulatory Authority)
- Tanzanian mobile phone users to hit 36m by 2015 (The Citizen)
organisations & websites
- UWAZI Uwazi seeks to ‘liberate’ data and information so as to better inform public discussion.
- MobileActive.org community on how to use mobile technologies for change & development – great database of relevant resources!
- EpiSurveyor mobile data gathering tool for health & development
- Ushahidi A platform that allows citizens to gather distributed data via SMS, email or web and visualize it on a map or timeline. Originally developed to keep track of acts of violences after the 2008 Kenya elections.
- Freedom Fone Interesting open source project that lets you create your own IVR based mobile phone information/communication platform
- MobileActive.org's Go-To Resource for Mobile Data Collection – a great roundup of resources related to mobile data gathering
project documents


Dear Johannes
We are very interested in gaining access to your “dar_wards_NEC_07″ layer from this article. We are currently doing research in Dar es Salaam. Please send me a direct email address should you be willing to pass on this layer?
Many thanks in advance.
Dear Lauren,
please drop me an Email at vonengelhardtAT eshcc DOT eur DOT nl
Best,
Johannes