Geospatial Advocacy Kenya

County governments are implementing GIS labs, but many leave us wondering what's cooking on the inside. The objective of this app-challenge is to have them develop a public-facing app. The app could answer questions like: 'Where is the nearest health facility?', 'What crops can I grow in my shamba?', and 'What is the governor doing in my neighborhood?' etc. This gives county governments a wonderful opportunity to develop a relevant information service for their citizenry. To help succeed we are opening this challenge to geospatial vendors and the developer community. How will they participate? Geospatial vendors will identify relevant county governments, run technology clinics for the developer community, and provide software licenses and datasets on a need-basis. Developers will organize themselves in teams of 4 and build a mobile or web app in collaboration with a county government. All submitted apps will be reviewed by an industry panel and the best apps will be presented in the Meetup. Are you a county government, technology vendor, or developer who wants to participate in the app-challenge? Get in touch to make this happen!

A detailed program of our monthly meetups will be disclosed one or two weeks ahead of the meeting. Talk to use if you can make a compelling presentation on the use of geospatial technology.