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TRANSCRIPT: 190514_001 RESEARCHING IN/FROM NAIROBI

Transcript from one-on-one interview

Tuesday, May 14 , 2019

10:23 AM – 11:28 AM

Location: Research office of interlocutor (Nairobi, Kenya)

Participant: Kenyan woman who resides in...Read more

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

Researchers Frustrated with a Funding Gap

AO: Angela Mumo points out that the researchers she works with are frustrated by the funding gap they experience between them and their counterparts in the global North.

How is the research and/or publishing environment characterized?

Angela Okune, S. Adebowale, E. Gray, A. Mumo, and R. Oniang'o. "Discussion on Open Access (in Africa)," [Transcript], 2020, Research Data Share.

Database as Book Question Set Querying "Open Access" (in/from Africa)

Nest Collective. 2021. "Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums"

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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

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

Kenyan citizens protest in Nairobi against government corruption

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Experimenting from/in the in-betweens

Freed from the constraints of chasing a tenure track job that would have required me To be a solo author stand out, stand on top, be #1 white supremacy culture.

Instead, I forge collaboratively Walking together instead of alone or apart Writing with rather than Writing about Studying...Read more

TRANSCRIPT: 190524_002 RESEARCHING IN/FROM NAIROBI

Transcript from one-on-one interview

Friday , May 24 , 2019

Hung out from 10:10 AM – 2:00 PM. Interviewed happened at the beginning of this time (from 10:57 AM - 12:15 PM).

Location: lunch venue in Westlands (Nairobi, Kenya)

Participant...Read more

AOk. Google chose Nairobi for its African regional base because the Kenyan government embraced the Internet

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

META: What discourses shape the way people in this setting talk about and conceptualize qualitative data infrastructure and capacity, right-to-know, freedom of information, the potential of expanded public participation, and so on?

TRANSCRIPT: 190514_001 RESEARCHING IN/FROM NAIROBI

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

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.

Researchers Frustrated with a Funding Gap

How is the research and/or publishing environment characterized?

Angela Okune, S. Adebowale, E. Gray, A. Mumo, and R. Oniang'o. "Discussion on Open Access (in Africa)," [Transcript], 2020, Research Data Share.

Nest Collective. 2021. "Invisible Inventories: Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums"

nest_collective.png

Gathara, Patrick. 2020. “Why Colonial-Era Edicts Will Not Defeat the Coronavirus in Kenya.” The Elephant, March 23, 2020.

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

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.

Kenyan citizens protest in Nairobi against government corruption

1942441891c822b1f2f97aa409baaa2f.jpeg

Experimenting from/in the in-betweens

TRANSCRIPT: 190524_002 RESEARCHING IN/FROM NAIROBI

AOk. Google chose Nairobi for its African regional base because the Kenyan government embraced the Internet

META: What discourses shape the way people in this setting talk about and conceptualize qualitative data infrastructure and capacity, right-to-know, freedom of information, the potential of expanded public participation, and so on?

Perry, A. (2011, June 30). Silicon Savanna: Mobile Phones Transform Africa. Time.

Odhiambo, Agnes. ‘Tackling Kenya’s Domestic Violence Amid COVID-19 Crisis’, 8 April 2020.

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