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VOICES-W4RA methodology

VOICES-W4RA methodology. ICTD course 2013 Chris van Aart, Hans Akkermans, Victor de Boer, Anna Bon , Nana Baah Gyan, Wendelien Tuijp, Stephane Boyera, Max Froumentin , Aman Grewal,Mary Allen, Amadou Tangara.

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VOICES-W4RA methodology

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  1. VOICES-W4RAmethodology ICTD course 2013 Chris van Aart, Hans Akkermans, Victor de Boer, Anna Bon, Nana Baah Gyan, Wendelien Tuijp, Stephane Boyera, Max Froumentin, Aman Grewal,Mary Allen, Amadou Tangara

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  3. Why do ICT4D project fail?

  4. “Ben Taylor from Daraja, a NGO in Tanzania, presented his failed ICT project. The aim of their project was to encourage citizens to put pressure on their local authorities to maintain and repair broken-down water pumps by using mobile phones and community radio. “

  5. A SMS-based system... • Using a SMS-message local communities were asked to report on the state of their water supply to the authorities.

  6. Promising project... • The programme received a lot of attention nationally as well as internationally before it had even started. • Unfortunately the team had anticipated more than 3,000 text messages but received only 53!

  7. Reasons for failure reported • The relationship between local communities and authorities is sensitively balanced in Tanzania and citizens are reluctant to report on their government. • Water collection is generally the responsibility of women and children who often do not have access to a mobile phone • Lack of electricity and limited mobile network coverage

  8. What went wrong ? • ? • ???

  9. Use case and requirements analysis

  10. Regreening in the Sahel

  11. Knowledge sharing for regreening

  12. Communication channels ?

  13. Low levels of literacy • Systems based on SMS?

  14. Local languages ?

  15. Regreening the Sahel • Need to spread the success of

  16. Based on Living Labs The concept is based on a systematic user co-creation approach integrating research and innovation processes, through the co-creation, exploration,experimentationand evaluation of innovative ideas, scenarios, concepts and related technological artefacts in real life use cases. Living Lab approach involves user communities,asa source of creation. This approach allows all involved stakeholders to concurrently consider both the global performance of a product or service and its potential adoption by users. This consideration may be made at the earlier stage of research and development and through all elements of the product life-cycle, from design up to recycling...”’[Wikipedia]

  17. Living lab in Segou, Mali, 2011

  18. The conditions we found • Communication is mainly voice-based • Internet connections virtually absent • Many different languages spoken • People have phones and radio

  19. Which technologies do we propose? • Voice technologies • Speech technologies • Use existing infrastructure (phone + radio)

  20. The Mali pilot • Multi disciplinary approach • Multi cultural team • VU Amsterdam • Web Foundation (ICT4D charity) • Sahel Eco (NGO that supports regreening) • NWU University (speech technologies)

  21. Workshops, demo’s, focus groups

  22. Use case: Radio Marché

  23. Scope of Radio Marché

  24. A demo of Radio Marché... • http://youtu.be/2JsiQmg7Km8

  25. Second use case: m-event

  26. Design of Tabale . Philippe Kruchten’s publication on 4+1 View Approach, www.win.tue.nl/~mchaudro/sa2004/Kruchten4+1.pdf

  27. Process view

  28. Logical view

  29. Development view

  30. Physical view

  31. Web form

  32. User evaluation studies • Validation & verification

  33. Speech technologies • North-West University South Africa • Etienne Barnard • Under-resourced languages like Bambara and Bomu • Interactive voice response • ASR & TTS

  34. Thanks! • This afternoon: Voice technologies by • Victor de Boer and Nana Gyan

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