Ushahidi's First Academic Webinar was held on Friday, November 11, 2011. This presentation was by Jessica Colaco and Hilda Moraa of the Ihub Research Lab. For more details: http://www.meetup.com/Ushahidi-Community/events/37206692/

1. “Telling stories and creating an
anthology of stories about technology
and community
through research”

2. iHub is a physical nexus point
for the technology community,
industry, academia, investors,
venture capitalists, civil society
to meet, share ideas and
collaborate.
It is a paradigm shift towards
the areas where technology
approaches a barrier, and new
technologies emerge to cross it.
Our Guiding Values
innovation | community | technology | entrepreneurship

3. Our Guiding Values
*innovation_ *community_
*entrepreneurship_ *technology_

4. The iHub Team
Erik Tosh Jessica Joshua

7. Conduit for:
* local tech research
* building research capacity
Driving local tech research in Africa through
social research and market research

8. Our Guiding Values
innovation | community | decisions

9. The iHub Research Team
Jessica Hilda Angela Leo

10. Our Work

12. Thank You
Email: jessica@ihub.co.ke
Twitter: @iHubResearch @JessicaColaco
Website: research.ihub.co.ke

13. * Projects: Current and future
* Lessons learnt
* Challenges
* Help needed

16. Projects
! infographics (turning data to iCandy): used to
visually present data to a more meaningful content
that is well-organized, accurately presented and
readable to the users which can add value to their
market research trend watching.
! Future picture: Organize research training and
fellowship programs for local capacity building and
from that be able to develop their research skills to
greater heights. In addition explore on other fields like
m-learning, m-health…

17. Lessons learnt
Governance:
! Community involvement is powerful
! Governance structure to function, involves the active
participation of different stakeholders and transparency.
Internews:
! Understanding the levels of communities and culture
through different mesh of technologies and
methodologies.
Learning from other research organisations:
! How they do their research?
! How we can partner?
! Strategic frameworks we can borrow from them.

18. Challenges
! Building local capacity by involving the right
people/minds to be part of the process
! How to serialize our research to be of value and
use our research across different communities?
! How to fit in the different communities and apply
our research?
! Dealing with a sensitive study like governance as
not many are ready to share their thoughts,
language barriers and honesty from the
interviewees

19. Treatment
! Collaborations/partnership
! Attitudetowards research
! Strategic planning

20. Thank You
Email: hilda@ihub.co.ke
Twitter: @iHubResearch @healduh
Website: research.ihub.co.ke