CEO Monday: WiGIS Kenya founders Carol & May on the dynamics surrounding women in the GIS field
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The GIS (Geographic Information Systems) space in Kenya is a relatively new field, encompassing the field of geospatial information including Geospatial Information Systems. Caroline Akoth and May Kitiyo are the co- founders of Women in GIS (WiGIS) initiative in Kenya, an a non-profit organization that aims at creating a community of visionary women in Geospatial Technlogy to bridge the gender divide in use of technology.
The professionals in the GIS space have vast knowledge and skills in the techniques for spatial data acquisition, processing, manipulation, analysis, modeling and dissemination. This results in data and information that can be visualized in various forms and used to support decisions for problems that are location related.
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Some houses in the Robin Road neighborhood in State College, Pennsylvania.
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Libraries local walking tour highlights mid-century design, architecture
February 08, 2021
Though first laid out in the 1930s, the majority of homes on Robin Road were designed by A. William Hajjar at mid-century.
“Hajjar leveraged the opportunity designing much of the neighborhood to design homes which related to each other and the landscape while meeting the needs of individual clients,” said Laurin Goad Davis, information specialist for the Architecture and Landscape Architecture Library. Goad Davis said the aim of the tour is to help participants see how individual houses relate to both the landscape and the larger neighborhood, a vital aspect of design not easily conveyed in two dimensions.