Short Profile
I am a code-blooded software engineer who is passionate about solving existing problems in the world by leveraging the power in technology. Building and evolving the human experience with tech has been my driving force in making the world a better place.
I am interested in multidisciplinary research especially where high performance computational models are involved and I envisage developing my ideas into fully-fledged systems that add value to the community. I also like meeting and working together with like-minded people as this opens doors to endless possibilities.
Use Case Description
Kenya National Public Health Gateway
The use case aims to develop a National Public Health Gateway to mitigate the effects of motorcycle-related accidents in Kenya, which cause more deaths than those involving bicycles and cars. Whereas these fatalities are many, and in many cases avoidable, the persistence of this problem is worrying and it is a drain to the economy as well as a real concern for families. The Gateway will be used by Public Health experts and operators to publish data related to motorcycle accidents that will then be analysed on the cloud and used to proactively raise riders aware of “black spots” while they are driving on roads.
e-Infrastructure Services Exploited
For storing and retrieving motorbike accident data, the National Public Health Gateway adopted the gLibrary framework, designed and developed by the Division of Catania of the Italian National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN), to allow access to existing data repositories and the creation of new ones via a simple RESTful API.
For analysing use case’s data, the Public Health Gateway is connected to a FutureGateway API Server - developed in the context of the INDIGO-DataCloud project - which seamlessly executes jobs on local, Grid and Cloud resources belonging to the Africa & Arabia Regional Operation Centre.
The PHG is a Service Provider of the GrIDP “catch-all” Identity Federation.
References
Presentation 1 – Presentation 2 – Poster - Presentation at the Final Conference - Video recording of the talk at the Final Conference - “Champion” video
Current Implementation of the Use Case