Knowledge Resource Center for Ecological Environment in Arid Area
IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP FOR DOWNSCALING DROUGHT FORECASTS IN MBEERE USING ITIKI | |
Masinde, Muthoni; Bagula, Antoine; Muthama, Nzioka | |
通讯作者 | Masinde, Muthoni |
会议名称 | ITU Kaleidoscope Academic Conference - Building Sustainable Communities |
会议日期 | APR 22-24, 2013 |
会议地点 | Kyoto, JAPAN |
英文摘要 | Mbeere is in Eastern Kenya and it has an average of 550 mm annual rainfall and therefore classified under Arid and Semi-Arid Lands. It has fragile ecosystems, unfavorable climate, poor infrastructure and historical marginalization; the perennial natural disasters here are droughts. Of importance to this paper is the fact that despite its vast area of 2,093 km2, there is no single weather station serving the area. The main source of livelihood is rain-fed marginal farming and livestock keeping by small-scale and peasant farmers who rely mostly on the indigenous knowledge of seasons in making cropping decisions. ITIKI; acronym for Information Technology and Indigenous Knowledge with Intelligence is a bridge that integrates indigenous drought forecasting approach into the scientific drought forecasting approach. ITIKI, a framework initiated by the authors of this paper was adopted and adapted from the word itiki which is the name used among the Mbeere people to refer to an indigenous bridge used for decades to go across rivers. ITIKI makes use of mobile phones, wireless sensor networks and artificial intelligence to downscale weather/drought forecasts to individual farmers. ITIKI implementation project in Mbeere commenced in August 2012; this paper describes the implementation roadmap for this project. |
英文关键词 | ITIKI Indigenous Knowledge Indigenous Knowledge Weather Forecasts Mbeere Drought Early Warning System |
来源出版物 | PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2013 ITU KALEIDOSCOPE ACADEMIC CONFERENCE: BUILDING SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES (K-2013) |
出版年 | 2013 |
页码 | 63-70 |
ISBN | 978-1-4673-4676-4 |
EISBN | 978-92-61-14061-8 |
出版者 | IEEE |
类型 | Proceedings Paper |
语种 | 英语 |
国家 | South Africa |
收录类别 | CPCI-S |
WOS记录号 | WOS:000325992800008 |
WOS关键词 | KNOWLEDGE ; AGRICULTURE |
WOS类目 | Engineering, Electrical & Electronic ; Telecommunications |
WOS研究方向 | Engineering ; Telecommunications |
资源类型 | 会议论文 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/302276 |
作者单位 | Univ Cape Town, Hasso Plattner ICT4D Res Sch, ZA-7700 Rondebosch, South Africa |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Masinde, Muthoni,Bagula, Antoine,Muthama, Nzioka. IMPLEMENTATION ROADMAP FOR DOWNSCALING DROUGHT FORECASTS IN MBEERE USING ITIKI[C]:IEEE,2013:63-70. |
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