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RELMA/Kusa Project, Kenya Summer 2003

FIELDWORK REPORT. Virtual Design Studio Pilot Project: Towards a Participatory Design of an HIV/AIDS Awareness Campaign in Kenya. RELMA/Kusa Project, Kenya Summer 2003. Marie RARIEYA, Research Assistant Science and Technology Studies Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. PRESENTATION LAYOUT.

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RELMA/Kusa Project, Kenya Summer 2003

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  1. FIELDWORK REPORT Virtual Design Studio Pilot Project: Towards a Participatory Design of an HIV/AIDS Awareness Campaign in Kenya RELMA/Kusa Project, Kenya Summer 2003 Marie RARIEYA, Research Assistant Science and Technology Studies Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  2. PRESENTATION LAYOUT • Objectives and Background • Methodology • Preliminary Findings • Conclusion

  3. Objectives and Background • assess the feasibility of creating a virtual design studio to help HIV/AIDS prevention in Kenya • Supervise the participatory design of HIV/AIDS awareness campaign posters • Identify alternative strategies such as indigenous forms of communication that can be deployed towards HIV/AIDS mitigation

  4. Collaborating Institutions(Actors & Organizations)

  5. Site Description • Lake territory shared between Kenya, Uganda & Tanzania • Disease: High incidences of Malaria & HIV/AIDS Kusa in Nyando County

  6. Methodology • Open-ended Interviews • Participant Observation • Participatory Design • ICTs Usability Study • Tested Learnlic Software • Yahoo group (RVDS)

  7. ACTIVITIES • Organized Local Design teams • Pass information to and from VDS team at RPI via ICTs • Pass information to and from local design teams in Kusa and Nairobi via ICTs

  8. ACTIVITIES • Participate in RELMA Activities in Kusa • Surveys & Visits (Orphans, PLWA) • Development Partners Network Meeting in Kusa • HIV Launch in Kusa, July 28 - 29 • Link with Ministry of Health Officials

  9. HIV/AIDS AWARENESS CAMPAIGNSCommunication Strategies KUSA COMMUNITY SOCCER GROUP - KUSA July 28 2003

  10. HIV/AIDS AWARENESS CAMPAIGNSCommunication Strategies TASO DRAMA GROUP – DANCE, KUSA July 29, 2003

  11. HIV/AIDS AWARENESS CAMPAIGNSCommunication Strategies TASO DRAMA GROUP

  12. Communication Strategies :PLWA- Helping Fight The Disease PLWA SPEAK ABOUT AIDS CRISIS – KUSA July 29, 2003

  13. Communication Strategies :PLWA- Helping Fight The Disease POSTER – ICRAF PARTICIPANT

  14. RPI Objectives Activities which Combine RPI & Local (e.g. Posters/Launch) Collaboration with Local Groups RPI Activities Activity Summary e.g. Bao game Change

  15. Communication Strategies :Use of Ajua Game • “Ajua” or Bao game: A potential game for AIDS and Math Education

  16. How to Negotiate Tensions RPI Research Project Local Projects (Kusa, Relma) Objectives Methods Objectives Methods Fieldwork Challenges

  17. Preliminary Findings • Existing Information technologies has potential to improving communications strategies (e.g. resource centre with computer, Internet & E-mail access, CD/Video information, Posters/Flyers KUSA OFFICE: USES SOLAR TECHNOLOGY TO POWER COMPUTER, TV & TO CHARGE THEIR DIGITAL CAMERA

  18. OUTPUT • Generated a collection of Posters, Flyers and Video • Collected data on alternative communication methods using People Living With Aids –Audiotapes (PLWAS) • Individual participants documented their project journals • TASO Participation in the Kusa Campaign

  19. CONCLUSION • Through the STS lens, we need to investigate why current efforts to mitigate HIV infections have proved ineffective in Kenya • With an infrastructure in place, ICTs can play a complimentary role in enhancing current prevention campaigns • Access to drugs and treatment should be a priority • Hunger and poverty is a major player in HIV pandemic

  20. THE END Thank You

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