Vidushi Marda and I co-authored an India report this year for GISWatch.
we studied the #pune Smart Sanitation project's impact on the society it is being placed in, given #caste and #gendered systems of labour undergirding sanitation work in India.
we would love to hear feedback or to chat more on our findings!
https://giswatch.org/sites/default/files/gisw2019_web_india_mal.pdf
@malavika Read the entire report
Had this question asked here on whether the stigma will end even if it was a Dalit women who is responsible for operating the technology. ( had suggested better technology and pay to end the stigma).
@malavika Shouldn't the priority of any smart social project deal with helping the poor or marginalised the most which doesn't seem to be case here.
Any sensor would be expensive. So what is the projected life line of the technology along with cost of maintenance and basic reliability of the technology proposed.
Is there any comparatively study with countries adopting this? Especially ones with higher percentage of poor people?
Was an economic sharing model considered to make the labourers to have a stake in the project so as to safe guard their interest?
What are the capacity of treatment plants? Can they sustain the increase load?Are there a discrimination faced by people who work in those plants?
Rather than having fancy name for projects does renaming positions such as cleanliness inspector give a better outlook and help combat stigmatisation.
@malavika A case if reference could be the how a naming change had a positive effect on forest guards in Kerala.
Again there also doesn't seem to a single body which is working on this.
Neither is there any data on how technology is being used to decide the location? What are the parameters chosen? And why isn't that data being easily available to the public?
And is it SMART if there is the use of technology but doesn't benefit the poor and the labourers ?
Malavika
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