Annrose Mwangi
| Organization | CANIS (university of Nairobi) |
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| Organization role |
GIS analyst and coordinator
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| Country | Kenya |
| Area of Expertise |
GEO spatial analysis of agriculture data, coordinating capacity building within university of Nairobi in GIS.
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I am a GIS analyst and coordinator at CANIS. GIS and remotesensing is my passion and it has been my dream since 2014 how data can be open and free in kenya to create a geospatial platform to solve agriculture challenges, as agriculture is the backbone of Kenya. i have been involved vigourously in climate smart agriculture DFID programme and university of nairobi GIS training and conferences arrangements coming on September 2017. Am looking forward to the conference to share and come up with ICT solutions.
This member participated in the following Forums
Forum e-Forum on ICTs and Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition
What role can ICTs play in using Open Data in Agriculture and Nutrition for family farmers?
I agree with you Vprot on the aspect that quality of data depend on the knowledge. This point is the key to the sucess of ICT and agriculture. In Kenya so many people have developed beautiful agricuture mobile apps but the implementation does not exist, why there was no knowledge behind it for this person to first understand the concept behind agriculture and nutrition at small scale farmer level. Which include culture, traditional methods of feeding and farming, level of education and the understanding concept of the farmer. If all this can be taken seriously the mobile apps can start making sense and the maps will speak sense too and easily understood for decision making.