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From: Anthony.MUSUNJI@cec.eu.int To: "KIPlist" <kiplist-cl@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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