The World Bank states that we’re “in the midst of the greatest information and communications revolution in human history”. Harnessing ICT for development can be transformative — yet pitfalls exist. “SMS surveys are cheap, easy and accessible, and reach a large number of people quickly. But many surveys are implemented without testing or providing enough...
Our Director, Dr. Sharath Srinivasan, set the scene at the Founders Pledge meeting on Human Rights. This organisation encourages founders of tech start-ups to pledge support to charities. Other speakers included Catherine Zennström (Zennström Philanthropies), Regan Ralph (The Fund for Global Human Rights), Patrick Ball (Human Rights Data Analysis Group) and Oren Yakobovich (Videre est Credere). Watch Sharath’s presentation
The success of our project with UNICEF Somalia relies upon our dynamic and collaborative partnership with MediaINK and their network of 26 radio stations across Somalia. Through geospatial analysis, we’ve discovered that these weekly interactive radio programmes cover 50% of Somalia and reach up to 70% of the population! The below infographic celebrates this partnership, using our...
Our interactive radio project in Uganda has been featured in a magazine that celebrates research at Cambridge University. Exploring the socio-cultural side of complications in pregnancy, this research was in collaboration with Dr. Annette Nakimuli (Makerere University) and Prof. Ashley Moffett (Cambridge). In the article, they describe their genetic research into pre-eclampsia, and how an...
Africa’s Voices Foundation receives the President’s Medal at the 2016 Market Research Society Awards. The Prestigious prize recognises extraordinary achievement in social and market research. Africa’s Voices is pleased to announce that it has received the prestigious Market Research Society’s 2016 President’s Medal for its pioneering work using digital communications to gain insights from hard...
What are the opinions, knowledge and beliefs of Kenyan citizens about tax? What do they think are the government’s roles and responsibilities for tax justice, budgeting and public service delivery? With radio stations in Nairobi, Turkana, and Wajir, we gathered the views of over 550 people using interactive radio and SMS (from 35 counties, mainly...
Africa’s Voices has won The Market Research Society (MRS) President’s Medal, for our work with UNICEF Somalia. It is awarded annually to an organisation or individual that has made an extraordinary contribution to research. Our Director, Sharath Srinivasan, says: “To be recognised by the Market Research Society with the President’s Medal so early on in our journey...
The London International Development Centre (LIDC) facilitates interdisciplinary collaboration between the London colleges and worldwide to help address global development challenges. Africa’s Voices’ Rainbow Wilcox was recently invited to contribute to the LIDC blog. Using our pilot project with UNICEF Somalia as an example, the article looks at how our approach about more than the data, but...
Africa’s Voices partnered with Livity Africa to understand the impact of their #2X campaign on young South African’s propensity to vote. Learn more with our infographic below! (click on the infographic to open and zoom)
Our collaboration with Well Told Story has led to the development of a unique new tool, which helps to analyse online conversations with ever-growing precision. Already we’ve gained insights into exactly how collective discussions can lead to normative shifts among youth in East Africa. For example, we found that during Well Told Story’s pro-contraception campaign, more...
