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Mawazo Institute. 2020. “Survey Findings on the Impact of COVID-19 on Africa’s Higher Education System.” Nairobi, Kenya: Mawazo Institute.

AO: This report foregrounds results from an online survey with 501 respondents conducted by Nairobi-based Mawazo Institute in April 2020.Read more

Rayzberg, Margarita S. 2019. “Fairness in the Field: The Ethics of Resource Allocation in Randomized Controlled Field Experiments.” Science, Technology, & Human Values 44 (3): 371–98.

Introductory Remarks from Wambui Wamunyu (RDS Collective)

AOk. Kenya Open Data Portal: "All the data you want, you'll find it there."

AO: The excerpt from the article below highlights Bitange's announcement about the Kenya Open Data initiative at Pivot 25 which took place in 2011. The article quotes him as saying: "All the data...Read more

MACRO: What laws and economic drivers produce (or undercut) qualitative data infrastructure, access, work and capacity in this setting?
Perry, A. (2011, June 30). Silicon Savanna: Mobile Phones Transform Africa. Time.
Analytics Across Scales and Systems: Qualitative Data Capacity
Gathara, Patrick. 2020. “Why Colonial-Era Edicts Will Not Defeat the Coronavirus in Kenya.” The Elephant, March 23, 2020.

AO: This artifact was shared with the Research Data KE Working Group (via whatsapp) on Monday March 23, 2020. It is an article in The Elephant authored by Patrick Gathara.Read more

Kenya Vision 2030

Government of the Republic of Kenya. (2008). Kenya Vision 2030 (The Popular Version). Government of the Republic of Kenya.
Government of the Republic of Kenya. (2018). Marking 10 Years of Progress (2008—2018). Government of the Republic of Kenya.

State's aggressive crackdown and lawsuit filed against the government in response

AO: This article describes how the Kenyan government implemented (overly?) aggressive tactics to crackdown on the spread of Coronavirus including mandatory quarantine period and required...Read more

How have different actors responded to COVID-19 and what kinds of counter responses have emerged to that?
Dahir, A. L. (2020, May 8). Kenyans Held for Weeks in Quarantine Were Told to Pay to Get Out. The New York Times.
Analytics for Research Data KE COVID-19 Project

AOk. Racial categories unarticulated in 2011.

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

NANO: What cultural frames and dispositions enable or deflect qualitative data work and capacity in this setting?
Perry, A. (2011, June 30). Silicon Savanna: Mobile Phones Transform Africa. Time.
Analytics Across Scales and Systems: Qualitative Data Capacity

Harvest Discussion at Nov 28, 2024 "RDS Database as Book" Event

Live Peer Review

Bradbury-Jones, Caroline, and Sanne Weber. 2019. “Experiences with Participatory Research and Perspectives on Ethical Research Partnerships on Gender Based Violence in Kenya.” Institute for Global Innovation, University of Birmingham.

AO: This report was shared with me by Aurelia Munene of Eider Africa as it touches on questions of what ethical research is and includes many direct quotes about experiences with research. It seems particularly fitting for this essay on "Being Researched in Kibera"...Read more

Misinformation: Masks ordered by Germany lost in Kenya

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