These questions pertain to each farmer cluster that received a smart phone. If your organization had 30 farmer clusters that received a phone you would have 30 sets of answers to the following:
Learning questions around smartphones
- Governance: What rules did farmers set for themselves to govern shared use? (Please provide the original set of rules drawn up by the farmers as well as your analysis.)
- Control of device: Ask farmers to explain to you: What are the characteristics of farmers who’ve been given the responsibility to keep the device on behalf of cluster members?
- Group dynamics: How are the phones affecting group dynamics?
- Access: Are all members of a cluster satisfied with their access? Why or why not?
- Challenges: What kinds of challenges are members facing with regards to the phone? How are members managing phone charging? How much does it cost per charging of the phone?
- Training effectiveness: Was the phone use training effective? What percentage of group members can satisfactorily operate the phone, specifically to (i) Take a picture,(ii) watch a video, (iii) send a message via WhatsApp, (iv) perform a google search?
- Information systems:
- What kinds of information are farmers sharing with one another? About the research? About the videos?
- What kinds of information are farmers accessing on the phones and for what purpose? (Possible student follow-up: Are they/how are they applying what they learn?)
- Cross cluster learning: Are the phone able to be used effectively across groups if cross group members have not had face-to-face encounters?