A Prototype for mapping of tweets on state services for decision support: a case of Huduma Kenya

Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Information Technology (MSIT) at Strathmore UniversityThe growing public participation in decision making regarding the management of State resources demands for a tool that support meaningful insight of the many aspects on environmental issues, for the development and evaluation of alternative management options. Twitter has become quite popular among researchers due to its massive volume in data thus drawing a great interest by the public service community to answer questions relating to the use and misuse of public service offices. However, despite the growing participation by the researchers using twitter as a public service misuse detection the State does not seem to optimize the opportunity that twitter offers for detecting and monitoring the services offered at Huduma Kenya, a one stop shop offering a variety of state services in almost all the counties. The main objective of this research was to demonstrate that twitter tweets can be dependably grouped based on state services selected keywords. The magnitude of state service tweets can be predicted with high accuracy. The method used includes various steps that can be summarized as first categorizing the groups on twitter and defining them. Second, finding out how each group pattern of activity contributes value in group participation. Thirdly, the identified users were invited to contribute in the interviews. Fourth, analysis of the interview results was carried out enabling the researcher to identify findings of ill-structured decisions in state services. Also, a mixture of related investigation similarity diagramming and grounded theory techniques were used to identify different benefit-related trends, patterns, and evolving relationships through all interviewees. Then, the data was sorted and compared by group type to discover which themes were most repetitively related per group. Moreover, to estimate on the generalizability of these results to the user population at large, access usage logs was required to determine usage levels

African Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in smoked Lates niloticus from selected markets, Gulu District, Uganda

Hot smoking is among the oldest methods of preservation which mankind has used in food processing. Potential health hazards associated with smoked foods may be caused by carcinogenic components of wood smoke -mainly polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and their derivatives. This paper presents results based on the determination of PAHs in smoked Lates niloticus from three markets in Gulu district, northern Uganda. The samples were analysed using gas chromatography-mass spectrometr

“They forget what they came for”: Uganda's army in Sudan

Uganda's army, the Uganda People's Defence Force (UPDF), has been operating on Sudanese territory since the late 1990s. From 2002 to 2006, a bilateral agreement between the governments in Khartoum and Kampala gave the Ugandan soldiers permission to conduct military operations in Southern Sudan to eliminate the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). Instead of conducting a successful operation against Uganda's most persistent rebels - who had withdrawn into Sudanese territory and acted as a proxy force in Sudan's civil war - the UPDF conducted a campaign of abuse against Sudanese civilians. Drawing on extensive fieldwork conducted over several years, this article documents local experiences of a foreign army's involvement in the brutal Sudanese civil war. It outlines why continued operations of the UPDF outside their borders recreate the same problem they purport to be fighting: abuses of civilians. Since 2008, US military support for the UPDF mission against the LRA has called into question the viability of continued militarisation through an army that has committed widely documented human rights abuses. The foreign military has not brought peace to the region. Instead, it has made a peaceful environment less likely for residents of South Sudan