[Kictanet] Fwd: East Africa Technology Information Project Receives Association f or Computing Machinery Humanitarian Award

[Florence Etta]

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--- Anthony.MUSUNJI at cec.eu.int wrote:

> From: Anthony.MUSUNJI at cec.eu.int
> To: "KIPlist" <kiplist-cl at lyris.idrc.ca>
> Subject: East Africa Technology Information Project
> Receives Association f
>      or Computing Machinery Humanitarian Award
> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2006 06:26:08 +0100
> 
> BM_253778East Africa Technology Information Project
> Receives Association for
> Computing Machinery Humanitarian Award
> AScribe Newswire (03/16/06) 
> 
> ACM has named the project leaders of the Nakuru
> Local Urban Observatory
> (LUO) in Kenya as the winners of the 2005 Lawler
> Award for Humanitarian
> Contributions. Albrecht Ehrensperger of the Center
> for Development and
> Environment of the University of Berne, Switzerland,
> and Solomon Mbuguah and
> Ernest Siva of the Municipal Council of Nakuru will
> receive the Eugene L.
> Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions Within
> Computer Science and
> Informatics during the annual ACM Awards Banquet,
> May 20, 2006, in San
> Francisco. Through user-friendly software, the
> Nakuru LUO project has
> provided its Kenyan community with a spatial
> information tool that is able
> to store, retrieve, map, and analyze geographic
> data. The community, which
> has never had data on sanitation, water supply, and
> other public facilities
> before, is now able to use a global information
> system (GIS) for town
> planning initiatives. The geographical information
> database, which can be
> assessed at libraries, schools, and non-governmental
> agencies, also serves
> as a tool for obtaining local news and other
> services. ACM introduced the
> award, which includes a $5,000 prize, in 2000, and
> it is given every two
> years. For more information on the ACM Lawler Award
> and this year's
> recipients, visit
>
http://campus.acm.org/public/pressroom/press_releases/3_2006/lawler.cfm
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