Category Archive: africa

africa

Jan 18

A Perspective on East Africa’s Developer Remuneration-(Kenya)

Conversation we had been having

It been ages! I know and I am sorry. Things got buffallo and thick. Reminds me of Dj Watene of Strathmore school. Well this has been a pending post until we had this conversation with one @g33kmate. Now my sample space consisted of people who filled in a questionnaire(ex campus mates). If you did not …

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Jun 25

Kenya’s Geo-Employee- A simple perspective I

Following requests by some   GIS students twitter followers, this is a simple perspective of who pays what and who gives the best opportunity. According to my experience the top honchos are Governmant agencies and non for profits/international NGO’s. In terms of career development they also take top postion in my view. Now to be more specific I will …

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Apr 12

The Tech-Scramble for Africa

Zuku Engineers Google Public WiFi

Well it been long since i wrote something down on this blog. Sorry about that, its been a busy four weeks. Hopefully after this more weekly content will follow. P.S. I got the lovely Nepurko to be doing a blog post on ‘GIS for dummies’. This was after several complains that this blog was too …

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Dec 21

My Experiments-Ushahidi and PostGIS,

POSTGRES on Ushahidi

Howdy, I know its been long since i posted anything. Well i am currently on leave and this is the chance i have to do a couple of experiments. So something that has always been on my todo list at Upande, was to port a Postgres/PostGIS backend on the Ushahidi Engine. Well i know kohana …

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Oct 15

Tilapia County it is

Tilapia

You must be thinking to yourself what this post must be all about with such a heading. Being a geo-spatialist and constantly looking at maps, there are times one sees things from a map differently from what the rest of the world sees it as. If i were a news reporter i could label this …

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