Team Taarifa

Daniel Fligg, Simon Funke, Caroline Glassberg-Powell, Dirk Gorissen, Mark Iliffe, Wai Kien, Cath O’Connell, Wystan Palm, Farhan Rehman, Florian

Rathgeber, Nico Weinert

Our Problem(s)

• Citizens have civil problems (water leaks, broken toilets, dumped solid waste)

• Tanzanian council(s) want to have them fixed

• Can we improve the sanitary conditions of citizens in less developed countries through monitoring?

• Needs to target full on smart phones to basic ‘phones’

• How can these problems be fixed?

Technical Problems

• How do you geocode an SMS message?

• Integrating SMS messages on a remote server.

Taarifa: Online

• Acts as SIMPLE Customer Relationship Management system

• Allows for reporting of water and sanitation issues for citizens, through web form, SMS and Android

• Uses Ushahidi as a base, extended to include

• Management of groups

• ‘Cloud’ Based SMS-ing.

• Feedback loops, to keep the report up-to-date with the progress of their report

• Adds a triage functionality for the assignment of problems to work teams

Taarifa: SMS

• Used a 10 digit unique identifier to geocode messages.

• Fully integrated with Taarifa: Online

• Potentially can recieve feedback messages.

- Keeps the citizen involved and AWARE in the process

Taarifa: App• Android

• Reports events

• Uses internal GPS

• Implements a way of tracking individual devices, avoiding username/password - complicated in this environment

• Could send notifications updating users on progress.

Taarifa: Dash

Document!

• Wiki

• Some code comments ;)

Sustainability• Taarifa will be demoed to the Tanzanian Commission

for Science and Technology

• Project will be taken forward by the emerging Tanzanian tech community!

• Solving their problems with their own solutions

• This provides the spark to kick start the process

To Do

• Bug fixing within the Android Application

• Create a market place for the tendering of contracts and fixes.

• Local solutions to local problems

• Creates a micro-economy and provides work at a local level

Questions

• And now....

• LIVE DEMOS!!!!!!