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Why we do what we do

Posted by: Gitahi Ng'ang'a on

One of the questions I was often asked by friends and acquaintances when we started building Hoji was why we were doing it. Almost invariably, I would ask, “Why not?”. They would then tell me about existing mobile data collection solutions, that some of them were even available for free, and that they wondered what we were going to do differently. Valid…
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It is time for data collection to move on, too

Posted by: Gitahi Ng'ang'a on

This is the spartan cabin of the 1929 Ford Model A. And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the interior of the 2013 Tesla Model S. This grainy image here, is a Nairobi street in 1930. This is the city of Nairobi in 2015. This here, is an enumerator conducting the 1930 population census in the…
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