Botswana: Leaving No One Behind in Botswana’s First Digital Census

Gaborone — Segolame Bolosaka, 23, a young mother of two and with a third child on the way, works with her partner on a farm and lives in Kgare, a small settlement with no clinic, school or running water. She travels by donkey cart to the nearby village to access health services – and hopes Botswana’s first digital census will bring development to her area.

In March this year, Botswana’s inaugural paperless census began, using computer-assisted personal interviewing (CAPI) instead of a…