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Two years ago, I set up this blog to report on our efforts to gather reliable and timely data on citizens’ lives in Dar es Salaam through mobile phones. By now, our project (now called Listening to Dar) has developed … Continue reading →

To celebrate the fact that our project is about to move into its next phase, with biweekly panel interviews to be conducted until June, we gave our website a new face, a new feeling and a brand new URL: http://www.listeningtodar.org. … Continue reading →

Since the World Bank started funding this project some five months ago, and we began using it to monitor the quality of public service provision in Dar es Salaam, we have successfully ran ten survey rounds, distributed our data reports … Continue reading →

After the Citizen and the Sunday Citizen have started using our findings during the last couple of weeks (see previous post), The Guardian now also has published an article on the poor state of Dar es Salaam’s power infrastructure that … Continue reading →

At a time where the Tanzanian mainstream news media have started picking up our reports (see here and here), the blogging community has also started to pay attention to our data and the broader stories they tell. In the meanwhile, in … Continue reading →

A lot has happened. So it’s high time for a brief update. As you will know if you have followed this blog, my colleagues at Twaweza and DataVision and me started off this projected in 2010 with an extensive face-to-face … Continue reading →

I ended my last post with the promise to share our experiences with the distribution of mobile phones and also to talk about the testing of new technologies for data gathering (particularly USSD). Unfortunately, as there have been some delays … Continue reading →

After many months of silence on this blog, things are about to change. Since its launch in August 2010, this platform has worked very successful in drawing attention to what we were doing and in establishing new connections with interested … Continue reading →

Not much has happened on this blog during the last two weeks. First, because I spent some of that time travelling through the north of this amazing country. Second, and more importantly, because the kick-off of the mobile survey phase … Continue reading →