AO: This is a digitized copy of the signature page of the informed consent that was reviewed by Participant BCKMKS12 prior to interview # 191203_001 and signed after the interview.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
This excerpt from the TIMES article repasted below explains that Nairobi was seen as attractive for American technology company, Google, to set up a regional office because of government support...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: This is a digitized copy of the signature page of the informed consent that was reviewed by Participant BCMMDS13 prior to interview # 191204_001 and signed after the interview.Read more
AO: After emailing this data to a non-Kenyan anthropologist I met in Nairobi, I received the following response:
“I went through the transcript and I really find it fascinating
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AO: decolonization emerged several times - “decolonize our writing” (to make them accessible to broader publics); questioning the benefits of research and how to make research more...Read more
In this transcribed excerpt below, Wambui contrasts the "loose" organizational style of the Working Group with the more rigid and pre-determined system that she is used to ("research should be...Read more
AO: This is a digitized copy of the signature page of the informed consent that was reviewed by participants of group discussion # 191121_001 and signed after the interview. I exerted my researcher's perogative in deciding to anonymize all participants despite some participants written...Read more