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

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Interesting Florence!
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From: "Florence Etta" <feanywhere at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <mwangati at measureafrica.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2006 6:24 PM
Subject: [Kictanet] Fwd: East Africa Technology Information Project
ReceivesAssociation f or Computing Machinery Humanitarian Award


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> --- Anthony.MUSUNJI at cec.eu.int wrote:
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> > 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
> >
> <http://campus.acm.org/public/pressroom/press_releases/3_2006/lawler.cfm>
> > <
> > br> Click Here to View Full Article
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<http://newswire.ascribe.org/cgi-bin/behold.pl?ascribeid=20060316.141511&tim
> > e=16%2010%20PST&year=2006&public=0>
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> > Anthony Musunji
> > European Commission - Delegation Kenya
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