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We considered a range of different issues around coordinating information on water

User Interactions

User Interactions

Markets, Politics

Markets, Politics

UsabilityUsability

CostCost

Format Limitations

Format Limitations

Information Context

Information Context

LocationLocation AvailabilityAvailability PricePrice QualityQualityLaw of One PriceLaw of One Price

Collective Action ProblemsCollective Action Problems

Winners / LosersWinners / Losers

Gangs & GovernmentGangs & Government

We considered a range of different issues around coordinating information on water

User Interactions

User Interactions

UsabilityUsability

CostCost

Format Limitations

Format Limitations

User Interactions

User Interactions

UsabilityUsability

CostCost

Format Limitations

Format Limitations

• S MS• Flashing• V oice• U SSD

User Interactions

User Interactions

UsabilityUsability

CostCost

Format Limitations

Format Limitations

• SMS• Flashing• V oice• USSD

(in Swahili)

Information Context

Information Context

LocationLocation AvailabilityAvailability PricePrice QualityQuality

Information Context

Information Context


• Describinglocations

identifying landmarks

Information Context

Information Context



Markets, Politics

Markets, Politics

Law of One PriceLaw of One Price




Markets, Politics

Markets, Politics





Summer/Fall 2007: Mass disconnections

“It was a police operation to do away with illegal cartels…”

“More than 90% of vendors [in Mathare] steal our water…”

NWC, Crow & Obada 2009

Markets, Politics

Markets, Politics





Summer/Fall 2007: Mass disconnections

“It was a police operation to do away with illegal cartels…”

“More than 90% of vendors [in Mathare] steal our water…”

NWC, Crow & Obada 2009

New York Times, June 20 2007:

“Might Drink Your Blood, but Otherwise Not Bad Guys”

Markets, Politics

Markets, Politics





Information Context

Information Context


User Interactions

User Interactions

UsabilityUsability

CostCost

Format Limitations

Format Limitations

• SMS• Flashing• V oice• USSD

(in Swahili)


suggestive evidence

• Better water information can improve clean water uptake (Jalan and Somanathan 2008; Luoto 2009; Madajewicz et al. 2007).

• Demand for water elastic at low prices but inelastic at high prices (Ashraf et al. 2007; Berry et al. 2008; Kremer et al. 2009).

• The poor are willing to pay slightly more “with their feet” for clean water (Kremer et al. 2009).

• Mobile phones can improve market efficiency (Aker 2010; Jensen 2007).

randomized impact evaluation

• Gold standard of impact evaluations

• Entail random assignment of individuals or groups into “treatment” and “control” groups

• Outcomes compared across treatment and control groups

• Randomization eliminates selection bias and supports causal inference


GOAL: Obtain convincing estimates of M-Maji’scost-effectiveness

User Feedback?Reduced Water Prices?

Lower Travel Costs?Higher Clean Water Uptake?


www.umande.org

Our Community Partner

www.umande.org

M- Maji

Baseline Data Collection

Household Survey(1000 randomly selected households asked about access to clean water and other public services)

Water Prices(Water prices sampled once a week in all villages, 10-20

weeks, following dry cycle)

Water Quality(Same 60 watering points tested for fecal contamination

every 3 weeks for 9 weeks)

GPS Study(Jerry cans used for collecting water rigged with GPS

data loggers to study water search paths)

African Population and Health Research CenterCenter for Disease Control (CDC)

Center on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)Herufi Library (Kenya Census)

Kenya Ministry of HousingKenya National Bureau of Statistics (KNBS)

Langata Stakeholders ForumNairobi Water and Sewerage Company

Map KiberaUmande Trust

UN HabitatWater and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP)

sampling design

Source: Kenya National Bureau of Statistics (2011)

Price for water normally and during shortages?Distance to closest watering point?Village where water is found during shortages?Importance of water price, distance, and quality?Knowledge of water-borne diseases?Water treatment habits and diarrheal infection rates?Access to electricity, toilets, schools, clinics, police?Access to mobile phones?Participation in community organizations and village meetings?Knowledge of local political leaders?Quality of roof, wall, floor?Education, Ethnicity?

Source: Map Kibera (2011)

Source: W

orld Bank (2005)

Courtesy: Ben Crow, UCSC

1. Advertisements (brochures, wall paintings)

2. Community meetings, women’s groups

3. Organize first group of test users

4. Formal M-Maji launch with community

M-Maji Launch (May/June 2011)

Welcome to M-Maji!

1. Request Water2. Sell Water3. Complain

OK < > Back


M‐Maji

helping residents of Kibera find clean, affordable water

on their mobile phones

WHO WE ARE

M-Maji is a team of American and Kenyan students,

professors, and designers. We are based at Stanford

University and the University of Nairobi, and in Kibera we are collaborating with local

community partner Umande Trust. We are committed to

increasing access to clean, safe water in Kibera, Kenya.

For more information visit: http://mmaji.wordpress.com

or e-mail: [email protected]

HOW IT WORKS

M-Maji collects advertisements

from water sellers in Kibera and puts them into a location-

specific database.

Water buyers

can then access this database to see where there is water nearby.

M‐Maji

The M-Maji team solicits feedback and conducts

random quality testing to ensure that buyers get the quality of information they

deserve.


As a non‐profit project, M‐Maji seeks to save communi es me and money in their daily search for water, and empower them with knowledge about water quality. M‐Maji operates in close collabora on with Umande Trust and Stanford University (USA). Please visit M‐Maji at: h p://mmaji.wordpress.com/. Contact: Sunny Jeon, M‐Maji Project Lead Email: [email protected]; Tel: +254 (0)701 320 995

Communi es in Kibera lack consistent access to clean and affordable drinking water. But they do not lack access to mobile phones. M‐Maji uses this insight to develop an innova ve, cost‐effec ve IT solu on to help clean water delivery systems in Kibera.

Sample Screenshot for Water Vendor

Sample Screenshots for Water Buyers

Please describe the location you are selling water using less than 160 characters.

OK < > BACK

In what village are you looking

for water?

1. Kisumu Ndogo 2. Kambi Muri 3. Makina

OK < > BACK

KSH2 per jerry can @ Salome’s next to St. Marys Church, facing

mobile charging station.

OK < > BACK

M-Maji

1. Advertisements (brochures, wall paintings)

2. Community meetings, women’s groups

3. Organize first group of test users

4. Formal M-Maji launch with community


Welcome to M-Maji!


OK < > Back

Welcome to M-Maji!


OK < > Back

User Feedback?Reduced Water Prices?

Lower Travel Costs?Higher Clean Water Uptake?

M-Maji

1. Model for sustainability

4 key challenges


2. Partnering with telecomm companies

4 key challenges

Presenter

Presentation Notes

Safaricom 4 hops = Ksh 6 per USSD, Ksh 1.5 per SMS; means 58,800 + 12,000 =

3 Villages, 20,000 households

10% of households adopt M-Maji 1/week, 150 vendors use 3/week

9,800 USSD sessions/monthand 8,000 SMS/month

Presenter

Presentation Notes


3 Villages, 20,000 households

10% of households adopt M-Maji 1/week, 150 vendors use 3/week

9,800 USSD sessions/monthand 8,000 SMS/month

On YU:

KSH 13,800 = $172/month

On SAFARICOM:

KSH 70,800 = $885/month

Both Networks: $363/month service charge

Presenter

Presentation Notes




3. Test and refine prototype

4 key challenges2KSH @ George’s

Watering Point, near St. Mary’s

Primary School in Gatwekera

OK < > Back

LAI

Presenter

Presentation Notes

m-maji connects sellers like Samuel with buyers like Salome and brings better information to the Kibera water market. Sunny’s going to tell you a bit more about the design choices behind m-maji, and some of the issues we considered.



3. Test and refine prototype

4. Navigate through Kibera NGO industry

4 key challenges

Special ThanksLeann Bankoski

Prof. Michele BarryAidah Binale

Prof. Joshua CohenProf. Ben Crow

Prof. Rob DainesProf. Larry Diamond

Erica EstradaWendy Ju

Kelvin Bai LugakaProf. Edward Miguel

Sally MadsenCaleb Ogara

Josiah OmottoProf. Dan OrwaJackie Sargent

Prof. Peter WaiganjoProf. Terry Winograd

andour amazing collaborators

at Umande and the Univ. of Nairobi

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