1. Public Health Gateway In Kenya
Dennis Muoki – Egerton Uni- Kenya –
Charles Njaramba – Egerton Uni- Kenya )
e-Research Summer Hackfest – Catania (Italy)

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

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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

6. Results
Recording a new accident

7. Results
Web View of recorded cases

8. Results
Results of Future Gateway Analyzer (Showing Black spots)

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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!

12. Thank you!
sci-gaia.eu