20100323 Map Kibera Meeting Minutes

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Melissa Tully's Notes

Map Kibera (KCODA office) 23 March 2010

Timeline and scheduling meeting

· Review from yesterday’s meeting for those who were not here

· Douglas’s recap: Talked about the concept paper and people gave their different views of it and concerns, such as lifespan and timeframe that is mentioned in the concept; concern about 6 months (March to August)

· Mikel: timeframe does not mean we’re working every day but we will work a lot

· Mikel: Handing out of mind map diagram and explaining how we went over it yesterday and what each element means

· Core idea: the core of what we did last time was mapping (in center of diagram) but we’ve added additional components of media work and community monitors

· Summary of health care meeting

· Mildred giving a summary of the questions asked and answers given

· Ken: we discussed the model and the work plan

· Mikel: we really want you to know what the common vision is and we want to make sure everyone understands

· Is everyone on track? Understanding the mission and vision?

· Different SMS numbers in Kibera for reporting issues that affect the community including health, education, environment and personal problems

· Mikel: we don’t want to introduce too much complexity in the SMS scene; we don’t want too many numbers confusing people but we want to make sure we’re using the tools to the fullest advantage; SMS here could go into Voice of Kibera site, which is a media aggregator

· Erica: discussing the SODNET short code and how to best use it; how can the code be most useful to the community? This code is flexible and can be used for different purposes. It’s another way that the community can also participate in the process

· Mikel: the relationship between the mapping and the SMS is the SMS can come in and be geo-located and placed on the map and linked in the database to a specific clinic or service, for example; relates directly to mapping; we want them to interact and be complementary with each other

· Mikel: See the 3 overlapping circles on the mind map to see how activities and people intersect and how people can be involved; we also have to manage to make sure we have enough people to do each task; the idea is to build links with other organizations doing similar work; it’s a network of people working with information technologies

· Josh: That’s why UNICEF is interested in what you’re doing because they can’t know all the community projects, etc. and they can’t get feedback from the community at all times; need to show the disconnect between what the ‘big men’ say and what’s actually happening in the community

· Erica: we got interested in phones because people will sometimes just off-hand give you information that could be useful but you don’t have a way to report so we were thinking about what technologies could help this—SODNET has been working on the short code, which is easy to remember and can be sued to receive information from our team and community members

· Mikel recapping the model

· The flow of information comes from the community in various forms facilitated through different technologies to the service providers

· End goal is to improve service delivery—achieved through pressure and accountability

· Everyone says they’re on track.

· Josh: Is anything wrong with the plan?

· Erica: If things come up as we go, we can adapt

· Mikel going through the schedule for the next 6 months

· Health, education, security and sanitation/water

· It won’t be a different technique, but just more/accurate data

· Mobilizing people from different areas and those people spread the information to those who couldn’t attend

· Sometimes it is difficult for a larger community to understand; need to organize forums within each village

· Going to each of the 13 villages

· Open hours for receiving and giving information in the community

· All mappers organizing and conducting forums in each village or just the mapper from that village holding the forum

· The mapper from the village will be in charge of that village (organizing, etc.) and being held accountable; lots of different views on how the forums should be run and how much time/commitment they will take

· Mapping and then bringing it to the community for all 4 sectors

· Somewhere along the way, introduce SMS

· Issue of paying people to participate in the forum

· Starting a dialogue, not just one-way information flow

· Melissa: gives a brief overview of Ushahidi and the Voice of Kibera site and the idea to train some people as site admins for VofK-these people would be in charge of creating and verifying reports from different sources including SMS and feeds; briefly hit on the idea of three levels of training: one for admins, one for group members and last with community members


Mappers/Monitors

Media

Technology

March

Meeting, planning, preparation for data collection

Training people on video; radio coverage; published map in KJ

Wordpress


April

Training and mapping; collecting health info; community meetings-print out maps, give them out, discuss MK and gaps in service delivery; community mapping

Voice of Kibera site as a media aggregator and means of sharing information in multimedia format

Ushahidi

May

Mapping – meetings cycle

Media team documenting and reporting and pushing out to Voice of Kibera


June

Mapping – meetings cycle

Media- documenting/posting



July

Mapping – meetings cycle

Media- documenting/posting


August

Mapping – meetings cycle

Media- documenting/posting



· Erica: describing the video training and what the video group will do in terms of collecting stories for VofK

· Douglas: doing video/news means always being ready; you can't plan for what is going to happen (what if a fire breaks out? you have to get there while it's still burning. you don't want to show up and have to just ask someone what happened)

· Gideon: agrees with Douglas's point about the need to be ready to go at any time to cover a story; they are both hitting on the fact that you need to be committed to be a journalist

· Erica and Melissa: explain that they are correct that you must be ready to go cover such stories as fires, but that other stories require preparation and are not so dependent on timeliness (for example, doing a story about a clinic in Kibera that treats a rare disease that no other clinics treat is a feature story that requires planning and is not dependent on time; it's news for its uniqueness and proximity to the community); Melissa addresses the issue of different news values and how those impact the decisions that are made and the planning that does into covering a story

· The issue of “logistics” comes up (i.e. getting paid for their work); Melissa: difference between trainings and paid work and the level of commitment that comes with getting paid-must be reliable and accountable

· Difference between training, which is a volunteer position and a possible paid position for mapping

· Plan to discuss schedule in more depth at next week's meeting and decide on pay structure

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