Taarifa - Improving Public Service Provision in the Developing World Through a Crowd-sourced Location Based Reporting Application

Authors

Mark Iliffe, University of Nottingham (UK)Follow
Giuseppe Sollazzo, St. George’s University of London (UK)Follow
Jeremy Morley, University of Nottingham (UK)Follow
Robert Houghton, University of Nottingham (UK)Follow

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Abstract

Public service provision in the developing world is challenged by a lack of coherence and consistency in the amount of resources local authorities have in their endowment. Especially where non-planned urban settlements (e.g. slums) are present, the frequent and constant change of the urban environment poses big challenges to the effective delivery of services. In this paper we report on our experiences with Taarifa: a location-based application built through community development that allows community reporting and managing of local issues.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7275/R5MP51GM

Recommended Citation

Iliffe, Mark; Sollazzo, Giuseppe; Morley, Jeremy; and Houghton, Robert (2013) "Taarifa - Improving Public Service Provision in the Developing World Through a Crowd-sourced Location Based Reporting Application," Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial (FOSS4G) Conference Proceedings: Vol. 13, Article 6.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7275/R5MP51GM
Available at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/foss4g/vol13/iss1/6