Use of Mobile Phone for Community Based Crowd Sourcing

Abstract

the increasing prevalence of mobile applications in modern age has made them an important tool that can be used to solve community based problems. In Nigeria especially, open air defecation due to lack of toilets and improper waste disposal (caused by the lack of garbage disposal containers) are two major problems plaguing the country that can be resolved with mobile applications. Therefore, in this paper, we designed a mobile application which records input from one type of user (coordinates of toilets and waste disposal containers) and provide this information to other users. We tested the reaction of the community for given opportunity to solve this problem, as well as how likely are users to use toilets around, if they learn the exact place. The simulation, overall, was successful and the results showed that community sourcing can solve a huge part of community problems once the opportunity is presented.