Water of Ayole video for EM.411
Stopped at 5:10
What is the system being discussed?
To provide drinking water by transporting river water by using women holding buckets
to by using
Who are the stakeholders and what are their needs?
All water drinkers need safe water
The women who have to carry need a more stable way to transport water
Children who are most susceptible have a more dire need for safe water
What is the system supposed to do?
Sustain the village
While watching
Technology has not solved the problem
better to improve the analog system first before adding more components
Simple means Solve the analog system first
like Solve Problems Upstream
At end
To sustainably provide drinking water by accessing underground water using a pump and a maintenance infrastructure
(new) The men who are responsible for maintaining the pump
(new) The institutions that install the pump need to reduce maintenance cost
the new ones essentially incorporate more of the social dynamics of the system (and pull in more of the surrounding systems)
Socio technical dynamics compared to my own experiences?
Internalizing maintenance cost into the system is often something that’s foregone in software since the cost to create can be so low
Internalize maintenance costs