Speaker Details

Biography

Prof Joseph Muliaro Wafula is the Chair of the technical advisory board of the Africa Open Science Platform (AOSP), Chair of the Innovative Open Data and Visualization (iODaV) Subtaskforce of the AFRICA-ai-JAPAN Project. And chair of the Kenya National Industrial Training Authority-Transport Storage and Communication sector. He is a member of the editorial board of the Data Science Journal. Prof Muliaro is also a member of the committee of the United Nations SDGs on Agriculture and Climate Change Pillars of Kenya. He holds a BSc. Science (Hons) (Kenyatta University), MSc. Physics (University of Nairobi), M.Phil. Microelectronic Engineering and Semiconductor Physics (University of Cambridge –UK), Summer Doctoral Program (Berkman Centre for Internet & Society/Oxford Internet Institute’s -Harvard University Law School), and PhD Information Technology (JKUAT). He is a collaborative recipient of the Bill and Melinda Gates Challenge Grant of 2017 for development of a Vaccines Supply Chain Management computer Application based on Blockchain Technology. He is a recipient of two IBM awards namely: the 2016 IBM Shared University Research Award on Open Data Cloud Project for JKUAT for building an open data platform for researchers in Africa, and the 2014 IBM MEA Award, for capacity building in Mobile Application development. He won the Kenya Open Data Champion Award of 2016. He is a fellow of the Computer Society of Kenya and the Cambridge Commonwealth Society and has published book chapters, a book and research papers in peer reviewed international journals. He has a university teaching experience of 24 years. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computing at JKUAT and the founder Director of the ICT Centre of Excellence and Open Data (iCEOD).

Abstract

Opening Data in Agriculture: Towards SDGs in Africa