GIS TRAINING IN AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZARIA
Crowdsourcing Mapping; A case study for School Mapping in Tarauni LGA
Background Under the key premise that information leads to opportunity, leads to choice, leads to better outcomes, UNICEF Office of Innovation is building a framework to measure a child’s access to information. 1500 calories per day is enough for a child to be nutritionally healthy. How many kilobytes (and of what type) could provide us a measure of a child's _information_ health? What if we could determine the minimum amount and type of kilobytes a day a child should consume to be ‘information healthy’? UNICEF is motivated to determine and establish some minimum standards around information quality and quantity that children need to consume (kilobytes/day). We can then build sustainable infrastructures and programmes, and make informed decisions for children that will lead to equal access to relevant information, opportunities, and choices. As part of the Information Poverty multidimensional framework, and as first step towards an equal world where every child has access to...
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