Report on the TMT AOPP workshop from May 2016 in Bamako Mali as presented to the VU ICT4D students

1. Field trip report
(my holiday pictures)
Victor de Boer
ICT4D 2016

2. Bamako

3. AOPP
• Association des
Organisations
Professionnelles
Paysannes
• 250+ smaller organizations
• 40.000 farmers from
across all of Mali
• Headquarters in Bamako

4. TMT-AOPP meeting
• Three-day meeting
– Included 1-day field trip
• ~25 attendants
– All over Mali 
– All men 
– Local tech entrepreneur 
• Demonstrations, feedback and co-creation session

5. Some holiday pics

6. Field Trip
• Large Chicken farm (AOPP), also experiments with Carp
• Cow farm

7. Field trip Milk cooperation
- Buys, processes
and sells milk from
villages around the
village we visited

8. Data!

10. Some technical findings
• DTMF works!
• Connection quite unstable.
When calling: 50% of the time
"System is busy", no indication
in asterisk
– No test with other sims
• Vaccination / Seedmarket SD
does work, but no incoming
calls...
– No caller id?
• Powerbank seems to have
some issues

11. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAoXpvkdx5w

12. Slides presented at AOPP

13. Kasadaka
La boite qui parle
Atelier AOPP Mai 2016
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

14. Connections rurales?

15. • Les telephones!
• Et la radio!

16. Donnees marches
Communiqué
GSM
Site de Web Systeme a Voix
RadioOperateur
Eleveurs

17. Multiple solutions
Netbook
running
Prophecy
SIP over Ethernet
Netbook
HTTP
Officeroute
running Asterisk
Orange Emerginov Platform
Low-powered hardware
running Asterisk
GSM dongle

18. Developpement en cycles
Visite sur le
terrain / Co-
creation
Dev. Les
prototypes
Mise-
en-
place
Business

19. KASADAKA(.com)

20. Plateforme
André Baart
(Bsc project)
Donnees de ?
Communiqué
GSM
Site de Web Systeme a Voix
RadioOperateur
Eleveurs

22. Marche des semences
https://github.com/biktorrr/voiceseedmarket

23. Seed market use-case Context
• Farmers have to trade seeds
• You don’t know the current market
situation
• Traveling costs time and thus money
• You may miss good offers, people may miss
your offers
abaart@gmail.com

24. KasaDaka seed-marketplace
• Call the system to look up offers
• Post your own offers
• Save a lot of time and money!
abaart@gmail.com

25. Plan de vaccination des poules
Amadou Tangara
FARM RADIO
INTERNATIONAL MALI

26. Chicken vaccination use-case Context
• Farmers have livestock:
chickens
• Chickens are prone to
disease -> death
• To prevent this: vaccinations
• However:
– Giving them vaccinations on
the right time is hard!
(especially if you are illiterate)
abaart@gmail.com

27. Use the force! KasaDaka
• Farmers call in to the
KasaDaka to declare their
newborn chickens
• The system calls the farmer
when there is a vaccination
due.
• Chickens survive!
abaart@gmail.com

28. Projects etudiants

29. Grp 5 - DigiVet 3.0 - le système
DigiVet est un service d'information vétérinaire basées sur la voix. Ce système
vise à aider les agriculteurs à prendre la décision de savoir si ils devraient
aller à un vétérinaire. Lorsque l’agriculteur utilise le système, il doit d'abord
sélectionner le type d'animal qui est tombé malade. Par la suite, une série de
questions sera demandé. Ces questions sont liées à des symptômes possibles
qui permettent au système de prendre une décision finale. Après que la
décision est prise, l'agriculteur a le choix de contacter un vétérinaire.
← DigiVet 2.0
Un système visuel, basées sur la voix
développé pour le Kasadaka
DigiVet 3.0 est un système d'appel, cela signifie que
vous pouvez appeler un numéro de téléphone, puis
utiliser le système. En appuyant sur un numéro
(entre 1-10) spécifique, vous pouvez faire votre
choix.

31. DigiVet 2.0 (visuelle) - les questions
1. Est-ce que les symboles et images utilisé par DigiVet, étaient-ils compréhensibles et
faciles à utiliser? Si non, que voudriez-vous voir changer? They like the interface a
lot. Very clear. However Rood= Non en Groen = Oui is beter dan blauw/geel op de
interface
2. Qui devrait avoir accès de créer ou modifier le contenu du système? (vétérinaires
locaux/le gouvernement/vétérinaires privés) auxiliaire/mandataire. The system will
contact the auxilaire vet. Even better is when the system give te choice of direct
contact or presents phone nrs
3. Quel type d’information doit être mis à la disposition afin de prévenir la mortalité
des animaux? (de la propagation des maladies/de l'hygiène/des changements
climatiques/de la nourriture animale) See animal list AOPP:
4. 1=Cows 2=sheep 3=goat 4=chicken 5=donkeys
5. Requirement: More than one vet phone number available
6. Quels sont les différents types d’information que les vétérinaires aimeraient
recevoir, basé sur l’entrée donnée par les agriculteurs dans le système? (sur les
symptômes/à propos de la propagation des maladies/sur les résultats possibles) :

32. DigiVet 3.0 - les questions
1.Iriez-vous chez le vétérinaire s'il est recommandé par le
système?
– Yes, they thing they would use it like that.
2.Comment est-ce que les coûts et la distance de voyage
influencent votre decision d’aller voir un vétérinaire?
3.Est-ce que vous préférez d’utiliser le Kasadaka sur l’ecran ou à
base de voix?
• Will depend on distance.
• AOPP would be interested in aggregated information,
specifically:
• What kind of symptoms + combine with type of feed they get
• Add questions to users -> how many animals do you have. How
many are ill.
• It would be interesting to combine this with location based
services. Also temporal: In rainy season, or not

34. Grp 4

37. • Very interesting!
• In some places this would work, in some places not, depends on the capabilities of
the official vets.
• Mali+ tree levels:
– Vet officiel de l’etat
– Mandataire: Prive-vets (not allowed to heal animals)
– Auxilliaire : Prive-vets (not allowed to heal animals)
• Products of vets and where to find them (medicine).
– “Do not buy medicine X from Y, they are fake”

39. • People liked it a lot. Liked the French interface
• Preferred languages (order of pref)
– Francais, Bambara, Peul, Bomu, Dogon, Sonike, Sorai…
• Frequency can be lower: Day and Night: Matin et Nuit
• Temperatures:
– 40+ tres chaud / very hot
– 35-39 chaud / hot
– 25-34 Moyen / average
– 17-24 Frais / cold
– 16- tres frais / very cold

40. Grp 3

41. • Type de emergence: Attaque de criquette, innundations, feux, bird
swarms, vent
– Alert to start putting seeds in ground, stopping – planting instructions –
depends on rain, seed type
• Use by AOPP members (other way around)
– Information comes from local coordinator
– On second inspection, AOPP members think it should also be able to work the
other way around
• Cattle: Cows, chicken, goats, sheep, donkeys, camels (north),

42. Grp 7

44. • Rainfall, harvest, seed planting, …
– Animal health
– Calendre de pluvio,
– Categories are indeed useful (Adama Tessougue)
• Yes, if relevant!, they are willing to pay. But small
farmers do not use sms (Wendelien/mady) ->voice call?

45. Grp 6

46. 1. Oui, cest possible (Tangara)
2. This is a bit unclear at the moment. Depends on the
benefits
3. Most people will not be able to read, even simple
messages.
4. Fire sounds great, medical as well, road accidents,

47. grp10

48. - Currently is (must be) done within 4 hours (between 21-35 C). Milk is being
fetched by local member of coop. On moped to mini laitterie for pasteurization.
- 60 farmers, 8 villages, 1 person per village who gathers milk. Someone from
coop retrieves this, or the local collector brings it.
- Every day. Sometimes using phone communication This goes wrong
sometimes
- sometimes the milk is turning because it is not being picked up
- After pasteurisation keeps for 4days . It is sold per ½ liter and 1 liter bags . Also
in bulk for sale in market They also make yoghurt which keeps a bit longer
- Yes, Possibly problematic that only men now deal with the money (Wen)
- Milk I 80ct per litre, 14 cows, 60 liter 4 Litre per day per cow. Personal
consumption per person is maybe 1/2 liters per day. (ext. family = ~20 people,
might have 1-4 cows?)

49. Two Kasadakas at Yeleman
http://yeleman.com