Africa-Press – South-Sudan. Organisations need to gather and manage data especially in location-based data, which can be represented visually on a map. This is where crowdsourcing apps provide a solution by being used to collect data from a large number of users using a single app on their mobile devices.
The administrators control the information and decide whether it will be accepted and visible publicly in a crowdsourced map portal. There have been various crowdsourcing applications such as Uber andAirbnb, which offers you the solution of looking for a taxi and accommodation respectively.
Google have yet again launched a new app in Kenya, the Task Mate app that will simplify the crowdsourcing of tasks from organisations and provide additional earning opportunities to users in Africa.
The organisations can post small, simple tasks that can be accomplished on a smartphone and people can get paid to complete these tasks, which can include translating a sentence into their local language or filling out a survey.
This launch is part of Google’s efforts to provide additional earning opportunities to users in Africa who may have talents that extend outside of formal education and employment opportunities, but aspire financial independence or may simply wish to supplement their incomes support businesses and organisations that want to get tasks done, but do not know where to find quality resources.
This app has had a promising start. In early 2020, Google piloted this app with a few simple tasks among them was to translate the Alice in Wonderland book into Kenyan languages.
Through Task Mate, 500taskers in two days started generating translations of the book in five Kenyan languages; Kikuyu,Kiswahili, Luo, Kamba, Luhya and Maa, marking the start of an experimental project that continues to this day.
When building on this successful run of the pilot, Task Mate partnered with PlantVillage, which is a research team at Penn State University that helps farmers adapt to climate change to showcase tasks aimed at improving crop health and food security in Africa as part of its beta launch.
The taskers can participate in an ongoing project on the app to take pictures of specified crop fields across the country, which will then be processed by PlantVillage into insights on farming practices and crop health that will be shared with 14 million farmers in Kenya.
With high smartphone and internet penetration rates in the country coupled with the high youth unemployment rate, it has made it an ideal playground for companies to capitalise in crowdsourcingtechnologies.
Google Country Director for Eastern Africa, Agnes Gathaiya said that Task Mate’s launch is a milestone and in light of the pandemic, where it has become more challenging to find earning opportunities, their mission has been more urgent and important.
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