Name: SABINA NYOROKA BAARIU
Dip. (Kenya Polytechnic), Higher Dip. (KISM), B.Sc. (KU), M.Sc. (UoN), PhD (UoN): MISK
Contact Information: P.O Box 368-00618, Nairobi, Kenya. Mobile: +254 722 302 805 E-mail: sbaariu@yahoo.com and sbaariu09@gmail.com
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Nationality: Kenyan
Membership of Professional Bodies: Full Member (MISK)-Institution of Surveyors of Kenya (ISK), Chapter of Geospatial Information Management Surveyors
Career progress and experience:
January 2016 to date Part-time Lecturer, University of Nairobi (Department of Geospatial and Space Technology)
April 2013 to date Cartographer/GIS specialist at Rural Electrification and Renewable Energy Corporation
Nov. 1993 -April 2013 Cartographer at the Min. of Lands (Survey Department)
Personal summary: I am a mature, self-driven and dedicated professional Geospatial expert, who always strives to achieve the highest standards at any given task. I possess strong academic qualifications, significant management and leadership experience, extensive technical and professional skills. I enjoy learning new things. I am self-driven, patient, a fast learner and a team player.
Achievements
TVET Curriculum Development, Assessment and Certification for Cartography, GIS and Land surveying
Project Summary
Analysis and Modelling of Cartographic Services among the East African Community Member States
Research Supervisors
Prof. Galcano C. Mulaku and
Dr. - Ing. David N. Siriba
Economic and political integration of East Africa has been expanding since its second founding in 2000, more so with the accession of Rwanda and Burundi (2007) and South Sudan (2016). Driven by the provisions of the common market protocol, greater regional integration is foreseen and it is expected to stimulate the demand for cartographic information to support development planning and other applications. The study was accomplished by survey via semi-structured questionnaires. Results revealed a lot of historical commonalities among the original member states. Due to the fact that these cartographic service shortcomings are at different levels in the different EAC countries, it was proposed that the first step towards their regional improvement be their harmonization, so that they are largely at par. A design of this harmonization has been done, and it is estimated to take 36 months and to cost USD 45 million. The resulting harmonised EAC model was then compared to the European EuroGeographics service. The comparison yielded gaps, and an upgrade design to fill the said gaps has also been carried out. It is estimated to take 60 months and to cost USD 23 million. It is concluded that even though these costs are large, the benefits of such a regional improvement exercise would by far surpass the costs, as 80% of decision making involves geo-spatial data. This study has contributed a hard-to-find body of knowledge on the EAC cartographic services and provided a roadmap for their harmonization, then improvement to the state of the art.
Links
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