KAZNET: An open-source, micro-tasking platform for remote locations

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cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationJomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technologyen
cg.contributor.affiliationUniversità degli Studi di Milanoen
cg.contributor.affiliationOna Kenya Limiteden
cg.contributor.crpLivestock
cg.contributor.donorUnited States Agency for International Developmenten
cg.contributor.donorWorld Banken
cg.contributor.donorForeign, Commonwealth and Development Office, United Kingdomen
cg.contributor.donorCGIAR Trust Funden
cg.creator.identifierNathaniel Jensen: 0000-0002-2946-5771en
cg.creator.identifierRupsha Banerjee: 0000-0002-7858-227Xen
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2022.730836en
cg.isijournalISI Journalen
cg.issn2571-581Xen
cg.journalFrontiers in Sustainable Food Systemsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriDATAen
cg.subject.ilriDRYLANDSen
cg.subject.ilriFOOD SYSTEMSen
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen
cg.subject.ilriPASTORALISMen
cg.volume6en
dc.contributor.authorChelanga, Philemonen
dc.contributor.authorFava, Francesco P.en
dc.contributor.authorAlulu, Vincenten
dc.contributor.authorBanerjee, Rupsha R.en
dc.contributor.authorNaibei, Oscaren
dc.contributor.authorTaye, Masreshaen
dc.contributor.authorBerg, M.en
dc.contributor.authorGalgallo, Dibaen
dc.contributor.authorGobu, Wakoen
dc.contributor.authorLepariyo, Watsonen
dc.contributor.authorMuendo, K.en
dc.contributor.authorJensen, Nathaniel D.en
dc.date.accessioned2022-03-27T17:27:57Zen
dc.date.available2022-03-27T17:27:57Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/118465
dc.titleKAZNET: An open-source, micro-tasking platform for remote locationsen
dcterms.abstractField surveys are the workhorse of social and environmental research, but conventional collection through monitors or enumerators are cost prohibitive in many remote or otherwise difficult settings, which can lead to a poor understanding of those environments and an underrepresentation of the people living in them. In such cases, micro-tasking can offer a promising alternative. By activating in-situ data collectors, micro-tasking avoids many of the large expenses related to conventional field survey processes. In addition to relaxing resource constraints, crowd-sourcing can be flexible and employ data quality protocols unheard-of for conventional methods. This study assesses the potential of using micro-tasking to monitor socioeconomic and environmental indicators in remote settings using a new platform called KAZNET. KAZNET leverages the network of people with smartphones, which are becoming ubiquitous even in the remote rural settings, to execute both long-term and short-term data collection activities, with flexibility to adjust or add tasks in real-time. It also allows for multiple projects, requiring different data types, to be rolled out in the same platform simultaneously. For the data-collector, KAZNET is effectively a wrapper for the commonly used and open source, Open Data Kit (ODK) software, which specializes in offline data collection. A web interface allows administrators to calibrate, deploy, and validate tasks performed by contributors. KAZNET has been used in several projects to collect data in remote pastoral regions of East Africa since its inception in 2017. KAZNET has shown to be effective for collecting high frequency and repeated measures from markets, households and rangelands in remote regions at relatively low cost compared to traditional survey methods. While the successes of micro-tasking are promising, there are clear trade-offs and complementarities between micro-tasking and standard surveys methods, which researchers and practitioners need to consider when implementing either approach.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2022-03-25en
dcterms.bibliographicCitationChelanga, P., Fava, F., Alulu, V., Banerjee, R., Naibei, O., Taye, M., Berg, M., Galgallo, D., Gobu, W., Lepariyo, W., Muendo, K. and Jensen, N. 2022. KAZNET: An open-source, micro-tasking platform for remote locations. Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems 6:730836.en
dcterms.issued2022-03-25en
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.licenseCC-BY-4.0
dcterms.publisherFrontiers Mediaen
dcterms.subjectlivestocken
dcterms.subjectdataen
dcterms.subjectdrylandsen
dcterms.subjectpastoralismen
dcterms.subjectfood systemsen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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