Media, Internet and Social Media Landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa
Citizen Participation by Grameen Applabs
1. The farmer Caroline consults her neighbor a mobile enabled Community Knowledge Worker for advice on CKW program is about citizen serving citizens in agricultural extension.
2. She was advised to add aloe vera to the water her chicken drinks and it worked!
3. As she moves around serving farmers, Tabitha also serves as a citizen reporter for her community . Part of a distributed, dense and growing grassroots network
4. News from areas uncovered by mainstream media. News also sent to mainstream media to incorporate
5. Like other CKWs, she also collect poverty, livelihoods and other research data from farmers for organizations that serve them
6. The power of this real time grassroots data is enormous for monitoring these programs
7. Map shows poverty status (by poor - yellow and very poor - green) of our intermediaries by their locations relative to the Mbale -Moroto main road. Such GIS overlays possible for other development organizations and their respective data points of interest
