Lydia wanjiru
GIS Specialist
Kenya · 15 years experience
About
I am deeply passionate about leveraging emerging technologies to address real-world challenges including the impacts of climate change. I have significantly contributed to the GIS industry by collaborating with researchers to develop a QGIS plugin that automatically assesses land degradation, specifically tailored for sub-Saharan Africa. Additionally, through a competitive process I received 2 grant worth 11000 usd as an individual through TechCamp program sponsored by US government to create an incident reporting platform which integrates Chatbot which enables citizens in the marginalized communities in rural Africa to report incidents quickly and view them on a web map dashboard and another one to create a water cleaning Vesel for river bodies to curb plastic pollution in collaboration with an Indian Student . I am passionate about coaching and mentoring people inside my organization a
Qualifications
- ✓ Aditional Certificate
- ✓ May 2024: Certificate in Cartography offered by ESRI.
- ✓ June 2024: Certificate in GIS for Climate Action Offred by ESRI.
- ✓ March 2024: Certificate in Green Digital Skilled Course Offered by INCO Academy
- ✓ Name of Assignment or Project: Feasibility Study and Detail Design For Additional Water Sources for The City of Zomba and Surrounding Areas
- ✓ Main project features: The project involves carrying out feasibility study for a multipurpose dam in Malawi which included design of the spillway
- ✓ Dam Embarkment
- ✓ roads and transmission lines.