7:10 EAKWAM03 articulates a very important sentiment here where she mentions how she feels so alone in her attempt to bring change to higher education institutions in Kenya because she is just an individual. She wonders if a platform like the Research Data Share platform might be one way to gain visibility of an issue because it isn’t just her opinion or her voice but actually demonstrates the testimonies of the students and their experiences in the data transcript itself.
“I hope [REDACTED - NAME OF GOV’T ORGANIZATION]…but they are so used to speaking to Vice Chancellors, I don't know, and that for me is the thing, I don't know if this should be...[recorded]... it feels like...I feel so...I feel so alone. Like I'm a solo voice. And I feel deeply I'm speaking something that makes sense. But I just feel because I'm solo. I'm not in an institution of higher learning, in a very big institution, I feel my voice may not be heard. So I...it's either I use this [data sharing platform] to, to sort of amplify my voice or see how I can create a community of... but it's kind of...feels so slowly... it feels so big for me. But so important. So I mean that... And maybe this is how...one way my voice as a solo person, interested in higher education...because normally people approached it as institutionally, let's solve this but as an individual, I still feel you can see a problem in...in an institution and want to do something but maybe this is…[trails off]”
