Lake Bankim, near one of the research sites
Things we’re doing and have done so far:
- Commissioned a set of essays from children in the village we will work with: “what makes a good farmer” and “what would you do if it rained less next year” (still waiting to receive these)
- Met with Richard Taylor at the Stockholm Environment Institute to look for ways we can collaborate when we’re in Cameroon
- Trying to find charities who refurbish computers, and host institutions in Cameroon who would like a shipment of refurbished laptops (which we can use whilst there)
- Setting up old laptops whilst in Oxford i.e. with NetLogo, to work with the wireless router and server (the most powerful laptop we take)
- Getting the BehaviourComposer to work offline e.g. how to import maps into the file system, can we develop online and download all files into the server filesystem to work offline
- Presented the project at the latest ABM get-together
- Booked a meeting with the University Travel Service (for vaccinations)
- Started this series of blog posts (to be categorised and tagged as “Cameroon”)
Next main tasks:
- Design and build the model(s) that have game-like elements built into them (next blog post)
- Load laptops with software to capture voice
- Last but not least – the project needs a name. We tried an online acronym builder but it crashed. (Personally, I quite like the name we gave in the proposal “Building models, not asking questions”…like it says on the tin.
Things I will have to learn:
- Logging in NetLogo
- NetLogo and GIS (also to help Jenny with her tick model)
- Look more into using the BehaviourSearch tool to analyse large parameter space (alternative to the BehaviourSpace tool)
- Brush up on my sub-standard GCSE French and pidgin: