iHub/chunga.me-App

This is a joint project between iHub, MIT Media Lab and Wildlife Works‘ local project in the corridor between Tsavo East and Tsavo West national parks. Last year the iHub hosted the MIT Media Lab for their off-site visit to Kenya. During this period, we managed to make a joint trip to Wildlife Works offices — located in the crucial migratory corridor between Tsavo East and Tsavo West. Our aim then was to establish what problems technology such as sensors and various software could help solve out in the poaching-affected area. We learnt a lot on this fact-finding mission — for example, the area to be covered spans 14 large ranches, so sensors may not be as feasible as we initially thought. We eventually settled on creating an app that would ease the data collection processes currently used by Wildlife Works rangers and embarked on developing a prototype late 2014. We have since organized multiple field trips to get more information from the intended end-users of the app: the Wildlife Works rangers and research team.