@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
Category Archives: WAP
Finishing baseline & preparing mobile follow-ups
Having completed our 550 face-to-face baseline interviews and preparing the mobile follow-up phase, it seems about time for some first data-poking. At this point, things still are rather preliminary, mainly because we so far have entered the baseline data only … Continue reading
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A word on technologies
We have been in the field for about two weeks and finished interviewing in the district of Temeke a couple of days ago (with Ilala & Kinondoni still to go). Once the face-to-face baseline interviews are rounded off, we will … Continue reading
Posted in call center, IVR, USSD, WAP
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Baseline study & mobile follow-ups: a first overview
This post will give you a first overview of the project. Specifically, I will provide some information about the baseline survey (including sampling technicalities) and the technologies we will use for the mobile phone follow-up. We are charting new territory … Continue reading
Posted in call center, dar es salaam, incentives, IVR, sampling, survey methodology, USSD, WAP
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