Taarifa: Improving Public Service Provision and Citizen Engagement

@markiliffe

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Tandale, Tanzania

Tandale, Tanzania

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Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania

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Bokolmanyo, Refugee Camp, May 20th 2012

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Bokolmanyo, Refugee Camp, May 28th 2012

Open DSM

Quality Analysis

Now What?

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What Is Taarifa?

"The Taarifa Platform is an open source web application for information collection, visualization and interactive mapping. It allows people to collect and share their own stories using various mediums such as SMS, Web Forms, Email or Twitter, placing these reports into a workflow. Where these reports can be followed up and acted upon, while engaging citizens and communities."

Where?

● Uganda - Ministry of Local Government/World Bank● Zimbabwe - Initial Planning Phase World Bank● Dar Es Salaam - TBA

http://www.taarifa.org http://dev.taarifa.org - Development with Ugandan datasethttp://ugtaarifa.org - Ugandan Ministry https://github.com/taarifa/ - GitHub Source

How?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/markiliffe/6288697974/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/markiliffe/6288669974/

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7057/6791611558_de9cc04e83_b.jpg

Ugandan Deployment In Numbers

1588 Individual Reports

1428 Agriculture

160 Local Government Support/Infrastructure

111 Districts

143 Individual Users

Now What?

3.41 million people die from water, sanitation and hygiene-related causes each year1

1 Toilet for 93 people, in Tandale alone2

Scarce data

No pathway into government/other structures

Use and develop open standards (Open311, OGC etc...)

1http://www.who.int/quantifying_ehimpacts/publications/saferwater/en/index.html2 Open Street Map

Problem Domain

http://blog.okfn.org/2012/09/13/managing-expectations-ii-open-data-technology-and-government-2-0/

http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/deviantart-nikola-tesla.jpg

"Gary’s law of conference failures is now codified as never work with children, animals, sweet soul music or live demos. And before you ask, I’ve learnt the hard way, never, ever, to do a live demo, because what can go wrong, will go wrong." -http://www.vicchi.org/2012/05/02/garys-law-of-conference-failure/

Future

● More Sensor Integration (UAVs, Water Analysis)

● Landuse use identification and vernacular boundaries ● Improved requirements public services and water

access

Get Involved

taarifa.org

http://kng.ht/RH7G27

Contact

psxmi@nottingham.ac.uk@markiliffe