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Making Rainwater Harvesting a Key Solution for Water Management: The Universality of the Kilimanjaro Concept
(MDPI, 2019-10-11)
Rainwater is conventionally perceived as an alternative drinking water source, mostly
needed to meet water demand under particular circumstances, including under semi-arid conditions
and on small islands. More recently, ...
MAGITS: A Mobile-based Information Sharing Framework for Integrating Intelligent Transport System in Agro-Goods e-Commerce in Developing Countries
(International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2021)
The technological advancement in Intelligent
Transport Systems and mobile phones enable massive
collaborating devices to collect, process, and share information to
support the sales and transportation of agricultural ...
Defeating Fluorosis in the East African Rift Valley: Transforming the Kilimanjaro into a Rainwater Harvesting Park
(MDPI, 2018-11-14)
The high availability of fluoride in surface and groundwater in the East African Rift Valley
was documented during the colonial period. Since the early 1960s, many studies have been conducted
to solve the fluorosis crisis ...
Requirements Engineering for Digitizing Traditional Medical Knowledge: The Case of Building Phytomedicine Mobile-Web Application in Tanzania
(International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology, 2019-12)
The digitization of traditional medical knowledge in Tanzania will greatly
enhance its preservation and dissemination. This is especially important given
the challenges facing the current methods of preserving and managing ...
Stakeholders’ Attitude on the Use of ICT Tools for Sustainable Propagation of Indigenous Knowledge in Tanzania: A Case of Traditional Medical Knowledge of Medicinal Plants
(Modern education and computer science press, 2019-11-08)
Most local communities in Tanzania depend on herbal remedies as the primary source of health care and such knowledge have been stored in the minds of the elderly who pass it on orally to young generations. However, the ...
Application of the Kilimanjaro Concept in Reversing Seawater Intrusion and Securing Water Supply in Zanzibar, Tanzania
(MDPI, 2021-07-30)
There is escalating salinity levels on small islands due to uncontrolled groundwater extraction. Conventionally, this challenge is addressed by adopting optimal groundwater pumping
strategies. Currently, on Unguja Island ...
Assessment of integrating Environmental Factors into Healthcare Models for Enhancing Timely Epidemics Analysis: A Case study of Cholera in Dar es Salaam –Tanzania
(IJASRE, 2021)
The objective of this study is to assess the perspectives of userson the feasibility of using integrated environmental factors-based healthcare model to enchance timely cholera epidemics analysis in Tanzania.The ...
White Teeth and Healthy Skeletons for All: The Path to Universal Fluoride-Free DrinkingWater in Tanzania
(MDPI, 2019-01-12)
Fluorosis has been prevalent in the great East African Rift Valley (EARV) since before this
region was given a name. In the Tanganyika days, Germans reported elevated fluoride concentrations
in natural waters. In the ...