The farmer Caroline consults her neighbor a mobile enabled Community Knowledge

Worker for advice on CKW program is about citizen serving

citizens in agricultural extension.

She was advised to add aloe vera to the water her chicken drinks and it

worked!

As she moves around serving farmers, Tabitha also serves as a citizen reporter

for her community .

Part of a distributed, dense and growing grassroots network

News from areas uncovered by mainstream media. News also sent to

mainstream media to incorporate

Like other CKWs, she also collect poverty, livelihoods and other research data from farmers for organizations that serve them

The power of this real time grassroots data is enormous for monitoring

these programs

Map shows poverty status (by poor - yellow and very poor - green) of our

intermediaries by their locations relative to the Mbale -Moroto main road. Such

GIS overlays possible for other development organizations and their

respective data points of interest

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