Using open sourced Crowd mapping to improve citizen and government engagement

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[ ID ] 4c953c72-6f55-4471-8449-84a1f5eda2cf

[ Submitter's Name ] Winnie Makokha [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Mozilla Kenya

[ Space ] science [ Secondary Space ] movement

[ Format ] hands-on

Description

I will gather people and have them brainstorm about different problem statements that touch on citizen and government engagement in order to enhance public service delivery like education, healthcare, public health services. After the brainstorm each of these topics will highlight the different challenges that need to be addressed or improved on. From the challenges, participants can organize categories while deciding which would be the best way to collect information from citizens regarding the specific issues. This will be a design brainstorming activity. The data collection could range from text messages, tweets and hashtags, facebook posts. The session will allow people to create to develop a paper prototype to illustrate how we can be able to collect information from citizens based on Ushahidi and other emerging open sourced crowd mapping technologies.

Agenda

I envision having people from varied backgrounds and skill sets coming together to deliberate on common challenges that affect them as citizens and how they would like to engage the government or responsible authorities and formulate solutions while collecting real time data that could help in decision making process to make their lives as citizens better . This information would be public so as to allow for other people throughout the globe to learn from each other. It will be documented on a web page. Participants can work on previous deployed crowd maps(information) on citizen related issues and suggest improvements or further recommendations.

Participants

There will be clearly outlined problem statements. Teams will be created according to their varied interests in line with the problem statements. Team formation will also take into account balanced numbers and gender. From their discussions the teams will be required to come up with recommendations that may be used as variables to help in crowd mapping or creating a survey to help in collecting the data. Thus, 25 participants with 5 problem statements will have 5 groups of 5 people.

Outcome

One of the outcomes I anticipate is that participants will be able to come up with a paper prototype that would enable them to deploy to suit their various needs in their respective locations regarding things they feel they need to engage with the government and provide information or even feedback on public service delivery

[secretrobotron]

This sounds really cool, @WinnieMakokha. 👍 Thanks for submitting. Are there specific other people you want to attend? Do you want people from a particular background?

I believe people have touched on this topic in previous Mozfests; maybe @brettgaylor @Saallen or @thornet can connect some dots.

[secretrobotron]

cc @DuncanGW @JoashMango

[brettgaylor]

Hi! I know there have been sessions at Mozfest related to mapping - tagging @auremoser and @kaythaney who may have more insight, as at least a few of these sessions happened in the open science track last year.

[secretrobotron]

cc @alicoding

[secretrobotron]

👍 thanks @brettgaylor !

[auremoser]

Thanks @brettgaylor for tagging! Cool session!

• 2013 - Ushahidi had a session on Crowdmap (crisis mapping and crowdsourcing) on the journalism floor
• 2015 - we had two related sessions: on geocoding and map tooling workshop on the science floor
• 2016 - we're hoping to support more map sessions this year, and have a few applications submitted on the topic if we want to cross-link :)

[secretrobotron]

Thanks @auremoser. Are those responsible for the 2015 sessions attending this year?

Cross-linking is 👍 .

[auremoser]

@secretrobotron yes, I believe so! I'll be there and Dave probably will too (though @kaythaney might know better), and Stuart submitted a session as well so hopefully he'll join us!

[kaythaney]

yes to Dave! :)

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@secretrobotron https://github.com/secretrobotron yes, I believe so! I'll be there and Dave probably will too (though @kaythaney https://github.com/kaythaney might know better), and Stuart submitted a session as well so hopefully he'll join us!

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[WinnieMakokha]

@secretrobotron Thanks for the link ups. @auremoser I see that ushahidi had a session in 2013 that had dev time too resulting into a demo. Well, I am looking to have anyone(as participants) interested in having better ways to communicate with their governments and also be able to have lots of information(maps) that can help them to solve community problems!! thoughts?

[auremoser]

Cool, you could maybe put together a few crowdsourcing platforms and talk about the pros/cons of each. Like:

• Democracy OS
• Loomio
• Carto also has a map template for nyc school district test scores that was used in a conversation with city officials about the quality of schools by district.

And then also include some mapping projects like Ushahidi.

[WinnieMakokha]

@auremoser ok cool! Will have a look and put something together. Thanks.