It was really very empowering learning about creating Geo Apps that can be used offline in areas where electricity is unstable, and often time non available. Imagine being a child growing up in a home without power, or even water, or plumbing, and well just about everything available in the Global North.
As we can see when visiting the SDG Geospatial Learning Lab Decent work and Livlihoods Promoting Economic Growth _Rural Mapping Challenges But as we know MAPS can serve as a compass for speeding up development opportunities. 'Let's work together' - that is my appeal.
If you are interested, there are 5 Books for Africa 40-foot shipping containers, filled with headed for the port of Mombasa, with 166,000+ books, and helping hands are needed to develop and field test for new apps to be used in rural Kenya, especially to improve rural school and village libraries. IThanks to Sara Lynnore from St Olaf U for her library guide for Statistics and Data Science 250: Data Visualization!
