A system of electronic mapping which lets a lot of different kinds of data to be layered onto a solitary representation is being used to perk up healthcare across Rwanda.
The digital maps, called Geographic Information Systems (GIS), are premeditated to bring together information from numerous databases and use it to both track and estimate eruptions of disorder.
This can then be used to support poorer countries best utilise their restricted resources. For instance, GIS is used to systematize data on ample of ailments and the accessibility of drinking water.
“Roads, power lines and buildings can be digitised; you can also save quality data about the buildings, if they are inhabited or commercial”, Max-Baber from the University of Redlands in California, who is the main person GIS project in Rwanda, expressed to BBC World Service’s Digital Planet program.
“Once you bind things down to a convinced location, you can commence to discover the spatial relationships between them.”
By putting this data on a map, interlinking can be found between things that might not be apparent from searching graphs or tables.
Information collected in Rwanda for instance shows not merely the locations of health services, but water and electricity supplies too. It also proceeds how many cases of illnesses like malaria have occurred in diverse parts of the country. …read the rest of this entry»
