Presented by Rupsha Banerjee, Nathan Jensen and Francesco Fava at the ILRI Open Access Week Workshop, Nairobi, 23-25 October 2019

1. IBLI – Creating Impacts through
Open Access Technology
Rupsha Banerjee, Nathan Jensen
and Francesco Fava
ILRI open access week workshop
Nairobi, 24 October 2019

2. Motivation
Easily accessible digital technologies can reduce the extremely high costs of delivering
services and information to and from remote locations
 Challenges
o Mobile and dispersed populations increase
the cost per client of conventional
methods for collecting and delivering
valuable information
o Challenges in extension and marketing for
informed demand in a population with
limited literacy and numeracy
o Cost of agency: Identifying, training,
monitoring and assessing employees face
similar costs and barriers
 Opportunities
o Provide access to some information and services at
much lower costs and at greater quality than
conventional methods.
o Improve the value proposition of IBLI (and other
services) by bundling with complementary services.
o E.g. finance, information, nutrition
o Potential for providing supplementary income

3. Snapshot of the open access digital world of IBLI
Open access technologies have the potential to ease service delivery and information
constraints using a distributed network of local agents

4.  Geo-fenced and period specific task are
developed to meet data needs
 A mobile application provides contributors
with a menu of available tasks and related
parameters
KAZNET crowdsourcing platform
 Contributors complete as many task as
they like and are paid for all accepted
submissions
 Automated and manual data checks

5.  Improved access to extension
materials and information
 Standardization of training
content and delivery
 Incentivized learning increases
effectiveness of training
 Stimulations through games
provide clients with more
opportunities to “learn by doing”
 Offers opportunities to track
agent performance
e/m learning and gamification

6.  Train caregivers to collect and submit information children’s
consumption and health status
 Important high-frequency monitoring, evaluation and
impact assessment tool for implementation programs and
integration into national early warning systems
Improving nutrition and health data

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9. Market Information System (KAZNET) Structure
Key system attributes:
Front end:
o Mobile app by which data collection tasks
are pushed to trained contributors.
o Contributors select and execute on tasks,
each of which is attached to a value to
incentivize provision
Back end:
o Task allocation system translating client
information requirements into specified
tasks and incentives and distributes
accordingly
o Submission tracking and validation
Dissemination platform:
o Clients access information on user-specific
dashboards

10. Activities and compensation structure
• Short questions (5-10 questions) called
tasks on important market aspects -prices,
volumes, milk, livestock quality, etc. are posted in
KAZNET
• Each task is rewarded based on the effort
(in terms of time) required to perform
the task –ranging between 0.2—0.5 USD per tasks
• Performance of the tasks is voluntary—
following the crowdsourcing logic
• Tasks performed by individual are
aggregated over a week for payment
• Payment is made through MPESA
Task Category
Submissio
ns Percent
Livestock Market Operation Status 1,077 1.19
Livestock Prices and Quality 29,501 32.56
Volume of Cattle by Headcount 504 0.56
Unprocessed Milk Prices 8,760 9.67
Other Food Commodity Prices 42,154 46.52
Seller's Perspective of Market
Performance 2,746 3.03
Buyer's Perspective of Market
Performance 2,558 2.82
Number of Livestock Traders at
Market 603 0.67
Number of Lorries at Market 639 0.71
Volume of Livestock Trade
(According to 722 0.8
Volume of Shoats (Accrdiong to
LMA staf 854 0.94
Volume of Camels by Headcount 488 0.54
Total 90,606 100

11. Communities Targeted
 Male and female pastoralist with smart
phones can use KAZNET
 Target 10 markets using 60 contributors -
30 female and 30 male
 The contributors are people living close to
the markets—intention is to provide a
complementary source of income
 Selection is done through consultative
process with community leaders - to
increase transparency and inclusivity
 All selected contributors are trained on
site - remote follow-ups depending on experience
in using KAZNET
 Private information is not shared to any
third party

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