Karibu Upande

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We are a young and dynamic company based in Nairobi Kenya. Upande ltd specialises in GIS, WebGIS, general web development and mobile application development. We have provided various high end services to many of our international and local clients over the past 3 years. Find out more about us in our portfolio.

Company Profile

Upande Ltd. was founded in 2009 to provide Internet, web mapping and Geographical Information Systems (GIS) solutions to the market place to a diverse range of business clients, UN organizations, Government, Non-Governmental Organizations and the public sector. Upande has a small but rapidly growing, closely knit team of experts in GIS, Internet mapping, environmental and social academics, business practitioners and IT experts in Web & Software Development, Mobile Apps Development and Project Management, operating as specialist consultants.

We help organizations achieve high standards of mapping of social, ethical, infrastructural and environmental issues. These include:-

  • Web Mapping – Google Maps/Earth API, OSM, KML, Fusion Tables, MapServer, GeoServer etc.
  • GIS – Implementation, Analysis, Training, Digitization, Applications Development.
  • Application Developement – App engine, Android, Python, JAVA, PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, PostgreSQL/PostGIS
  • Data Collection – GPS, Open Street Map, Google Map Maker
  • Mobile Data Collection – ODK, Ushahidi, FrontlineSMS, JavaRosa
  • Content Management Systems – Joomla  

"A well known ailment, DataBase Hugging Disorder (DBHD) is the statisticians’ tendency to guard their data because of concerns about budgets or misinterpretation.." _ Hans Rosling

 

Joomla Upgrade

Joomla 2.5 is out, Upande is offering services in the new and improved platform.

 

County GIS

Devolution of government services means new needs for spatial data at county level. Upande offers GIS services for county level planning and information processing.

GCAP

 Upande has partnered with Global Climate Adaptation Partnership (GCAP)

Data collection

 Why not consider smart phone data collection and monitor data online as it comes in?