Jisort
JI: Was the Jisort installed in the Respondent phone?
These questions are about the Jisort app. They only include answers from the respondents in the treatment group. The app is installed on 65% of the respondents in this group.
Learning
These questions are about what the respondents took away from using the app.
Respondents learn from Jisort, men more often than women
76% of the men say they learned something from Jisort, as oposed to 70% of the women.
Men - JI1: Have you learned anything from using Jisort?
Women - JI1: Have you learned anything from using Jisort?
Selection of answers to JI2: In what sense has it been useful to you?
| Respondent | JI2: In what sense has it been useful to you? |
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Men - JI6: Do you feel more or less confident about using your smartphone/apps/websites after using Jisort?
Women - JI6: Do you feel more or less confident about using your smartphone/apps/websites after using Jisort?
Large gender difference when it comes to confidence
The amount of men saying they are confident is 14 percent higher. Moreover, women say that they haven't used Jisort far more often than men (19% against 3%).
Women also didn't give any answers that code to 'I feel less confident'.
Not a lot of discovery thanks to Jisort
About 75% of the respondents says that Jisort didn't help them with discovering new apps. There is a 12 percent difference between men and women on this answer.
Otherwise the respondents mention being able to browse, discover music, and discover games. The answers vary quite a bit by gender.
Men - JI14: Has Jisort helped or inspired you use discover new applications? Which ones?
Women - JI14: Has Jisort helped or inspired you use discover new applications? Which ones?
Feedback
Men - JI3: Which parts of Jisort are difficult?
Women - JI3: Which parts of Jisort are difficult?
Not many difficult parts
Most respondents report that no parts about the app are difficult, with a noticeable gender difference in how much. Men also tend to be a bit more varied in their answers.
All answers except 'Nothing' to JI4: What’s missing from Jisort? What else do you want to learn from it?
| Respondent | JI4: What’s missing from Jisort? What else do you want to learn from it? |
|---|---|
Language
As we can see below, most people are fine with the app being in English. There also respondents who would rather have the app in Swahili or in Sheng, or for it to use more imagery.
JI5: How would you change the Jisort’s language? Would you prefer that Jisort used more Sheng, emojis, or imagery? How so?
Selection of answers to JI15: How could we make Jisort more fun? How could we make it aligned with what is trendy in Kenya these days?
| Respondent | JI15: How could we make Jisort more fun? How could we make it aligned with what is trendy in Kenya these days? |
|---|---|
Sharing Jisort with others
Half of the respondents showed Jisort to someone else. The people they showed it to either said it was a good app (62%), or said it was a good app and expressed interest in installing it themselves (17%).
Out of the people who didn't show the app to someone else, half says they didn't do so because they haven't check out the app themselves. Other reasons given are 'I thought it was meant for me only' and 'I didn't have anyone with a smartphone to share it with.
JI7: Have you shown Jisort to anyone else?
JI7.1: If yes, what did they think?
Sharing the app
21% of the respondents say they shared the app,
30% say they shared a lesson from it, and
41% say Jisort helped them answer someone else's questions.
JI8: Have you shared the Jisort app with anyone else?
JI10: Have you shared lessons from Jisort with anyone else?
JI11: Has Jisort helped you answer someone else’s questions?
J10.1 How did you do so?
| Respondent | JI10.1: How did you do so? |
|---|---|
JI10.2: What was the lesson?
| Respondent | JI10.2: What was the lesson? |
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Questions about Jisort and gender
Out of all the male respondents interviewed, only one doesn't say that Jisort isn't interesting in the same way for men and women.
For the women, only 3 answered something else. 2 of them say Jisort is more interesting for women because they don't go to cybers that often, and one says it's just more interesting for women, no further explanation given.
Men - JI12: Do you think that Jisort is interesting for men and women in the same way, or for one gender more than the other?
Women - JI12: Do you think that Jisort is interesting for men and women in the same way, or for one gender more than the other?
Men - JI13: Are you more or less likely to share Jisort or its information with someone of the same gender?
Men - JI13: Are you more or less likely to share Jisort or its information with someone of the same gender?
About half of the respondents are more likely to share Jisort or its information with someone of their gender. The almost other halve say that it doesn't matter. A small fraction is more likely to share with someone from the opposite gender.
The answers differ only a little bit between genders.