AO: Data Protection Law that just passed was a big one and ties closely to GDPR. Phares Kariuki mentioned “GDPR biases towards big companies that have the capacity to comply. Even...Read more
AO: institutional program administrators are grappling with how to get people to gain more critical thinking skills despite the heavy bureaucracies they have to navigate. But few to no...Read more
AO: We didn’t have enough representation from the technical experts. Perhaps this reflects in some way the focus of much of the tech community in Nairobi on money making ventures or “...Read more
AO: Eve emphasizes the "importance of publishing for development" (29:31) and “the power of a version of publishing which is about development issues, rather than about promotions and...Read more
I find it interesting that in the entire article, which includes descriptions about tech helping to fill voids on the "dark continent", race is not mentioned once. In the...Read more
Tognetti, S. S. (1999). Science in a double-bind: Gregory Bateson and the origins of post-normal science. Futures, 31(7), 689–703. ...Read more
B mentions that another (Black) diaspora Kenyan was also interviewing at the same research org that she currently works at. The other person dropped out because she said she could see the...Read more
AO: This is a digitized copy of the signature pages of the informed consent reviewed by participants in the group discussion # 191029_001. Two of the participants wished to be anonymous while the four others expressed and confirmed desires to be named both verbally and on the consent form...Read more
AO: This is a digitized copy of the signature page of the informed consent that was reviewed by Participant BCMWAS11 prior to interview # 191127_001 and signed after the interview. While the participant stated their willingness to be named and wrote out their full name in the signed...Read more
AO: This is a digitized copy of the signature page of the informed consent that was reviewed by Participant BCMWFS02 prior to interview # 190522_001 and signed after the interview.Read more
Transcript from one-on-one interview
Wednesday, May 22, 2019
10:16 AM – 11:44 AM
Location: Research office of interlocutor (Nairobi, Kenya)
Participant: Non-Kenyan woman with kinship ties to the...Read more
I stumbled across this document, which I had created in 2015, on my computer today [Oct 2020] and decided it was a nice artifact to upload to RDS as "fieldnotes" of a few out of many more experiences as a research subject. These were just two of many innumerable times I participated in somebody'...Read more