These are the thoughts of an African spatialist and geo geek..thoughts on maps, mapping api's, open source gis tools and development frameworks
Well, Kenya is positioning itself to be one of the worlds major ICT hubs in Africa. The ministry of Information and communication are busy trying to get Kenyans to create content. Well this being a spatialists blog we also need to look at geo-content. Well does Kenya publish alot of geo-content. To my surprise, Kenya [...]
Well, i am currently working on a project called Drumnet. Drumnet is a platform that seeks to provide farmers with an ecosystem where their input marketing is synchronized by their out put marketing. Kenya is dependent on Agriculture. To provide farmers with the necessary tools to make informed decisions is very important.
The software has a [...]
Google recently held the Google Earth Outreach Programme Trainers of Trainers programme at the ILRI campus. The programme is very helpful. I found it fast and takes one to the basics. So for a techie like me, i had done a couple of their assignments in no time. Well i did learn some useful stuff. [...]
Well, we have hit the ground running. This is an effort to map sub saharan Africa’s largest slum on map. I am very much interested in this project. Not only because of the mapping but also the fact that the information will be very necessary to NGO’s and Government. Well, i remember once the Prime [...]