Public Health Gateway In Kenya Dennis Muoki – Egerton Uni- Kenya – muokid3@gmail.com Charles Njaramba – Egerton Uni- Kenya (njarambacharles01@gmail.com ) e-Research Summer Hackfest – Catania (Italy)

Outline Scientific problem Work done during Hackfest Results Future Plans Summary and Conclusions

Scientific problem - Definition Increased Motorcycles in the country The number of roads never increased at the same rate competition for almost the same space Little or no training on riding safety it is well known that many riders have little formal training on safety on the road Accidents Even in regions without cars, the phenomenon of motorbike accidents is very much present.

Scientific Problem - Solution Build a public health gateway Build a web portal for recording data on such accidents (By doctors and Police) Build a real time mobile interface dispatcher to broadcast relevant information to the public Build the interfaces on open science gateways: Create an underlying RESTful API for the system using gLibrary and FutureGateway Create a schema-less DB (Mongo DB) and link it to the two gateways

Work done during the Hackfest Tools used gLibrary Future Gateway Set up a FutureGateway instance on a VM at Catania using the baseline installation scripts Created data analyzer that runs data (from gLibrary) analysis jobs and returns results Created REST APIs over new datasets for the health gateway Implemented data storage on the Open-Stack Based storage server at Catania

Results Recording a new accident

Results Web View of recorded cases

Results Results of Future Gateway Analyzer (Showing Black spots)

Future plans (until the Workshop in Dar es Salaam on 5th of September) Finish up the remaining parts of the web portal Create the mobile interface for the public. Integrate the dispatcher service with live broadcast on accident information and relevant information

Summary and conclusions Excellent initiative for practical learning experience Developed good skills for building technology infrastructure especially in developing countries like Kenya Learnt about open science gateways Started developing the PHG (public health gateway) for Kenya Practically implemented the science gateways in PHG to achieve a federated service

Summary and conclusions Special gratitude to The organizers – Roberto Barbera, Bruce Becker, Ricardo Bruno and the entire Sci-GaIA team The tech team – Mario Torrisi, Antonio Calanducci, Bruce Becker, Ricardo Bruno Facilitators – Simon Taylor, John Kanyaru Catania University and Egerton University administration Everyone else who played a role and is not mentioned We enjoyed our stay here in Catania! The food was awesome!

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