Institute of Rural Development Planning

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CHI '24Context-Aware Computing +1

eKichabi v2: Designing and Scaling a Dual-Platform Technology in Rural Tanzania

Although farmers in Sub-Saharan Africa are accessing feature phones and smartphones at historically high rates, they face challenges finding a robust network of agricultural contacts. With local collaborators, we conduct a quantitative survey of 1014 agricultural households in Kagera, Tanzania to characterize technolo…

CHI '23Algorithmic Fairness & Bias +1

From Grasshoppers to Second-Hand Cars: Understanding Smartphone-Supported Enterprises in Peri-urban Tanzania

The evolving socio-technical landscape in peri-urban Tanzania has paved the way for a dramatic increase in smartphone-supported micro and small enterprises. We conduct surveys and focus groups with 46 such entrepreneurs, shedding light on the internal mechanisms and external networks of their businesses. We uncover th…

CHI '18Developing Countries & HCI for Development (HCI4D) +1

eKichabi: Information Access through Basic Mobile Phones in Rural Tanzania

This paper presents eKichabi, a tool for retrieving contact information for agriculture-related enterprises in Tanzania. eKichabi is an Unstructured Supplementary Service Data (USSD) application which users can access through basic mobile phones. We describe our focus groups, a design iteration, deployment in four v…

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Ethics, Fairness, Social Justice & Inclusion

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Participatory Design