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Chris Image

Welcome/willkommen/Welkom/Karibu/Itakaat

Research Interests include
  • Social Informatics: Telecommuting among day labour low income earners
  • Information Security: Cryptography
  • Human Computer Interaction
My current research (as part of my PhD) involves finding out how technology, mobile phones and internet technologies, can be used to organize day labour workers, employers and intermediary organizations and make work and worker search more efficient.

We have named the whole research as Telecommuting among members of Open Air Labour Market Exchange (OALME)

The aims of the study are:
  • To find out the most reasonable ICT application(s) combining mobile phone and Internet technologies that can support employers, self-organizing and organized groups of day labour seekers and intermediary organizations attain a corporation that will help alleviate some of their day to day problems associated with job seeking and worker search
  • To design and evaluate a prototype application based on findings from the above aim
Findings so far

We have had mixed sets of findings throughtout the study period. These findings have been captured in a series of working documents.

  1. Have a look at our general architecture here. It is based on findings from Nairobi and Cape Town and is forming the basis of our design


  2. Jan-Fen 2011 field work findings from Nairobi Kenya


  3. Latest findings from MSR and their members


  4. Findings from june 2010 field work in Nairobi, Kenya : Nairobi findings


  5. Check my research proposal write up and presentation


  6. Prelimary study on day labour workers and intermediary organization : MSR,Initial findings

*Day labour is work done where the worker is hired and paid one day at a time, with no promise that more work will be available in the future