aWhere gives back
Our commitment supports assistance programs in developing countries.
| aWhere’s roots lie in deployment of information systems in support of sustainable development. With a historical focus on agriculture, the lessons learned from building and deploying location intelligent information systems in resource constrained environments prove all the more valuable today. aWhere brings transparency and accountability to sustainable development projects as critical information is more easily utilized, shared – and acted upon – within and between partners. aWhere, working with Tulane University’s Payson Center for International Development and Technology Transfer, won a Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation grant (in 2009) to deploy an instance of aWhere’s InSite platform over East and Southern Africa. Focused on the delivery of agriculture weather data (observed and forecast), the goal is to provide access to the driving variable behind agri-business: weather. From research and development and prioritization to targeting farmers for specific in-season strategies, location based information delivers actionable insight. aWhere - Agricultural Information System East Africa |  |
Working in south Asia, aWhere is a partner in the USAID (United States Agency for International Development) and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation supported CSISA (Cereal Strategy Initiative for South Asia) effort. The first 3 years of this December 2008 launched project targets the closing of the yield gap (the difference between on-farm and research plot yields) across South Asia through the adoption of known sustainable conservation agriculture practices. The longer term project includes the generation of a second ‘green revolution’ package of sustainable agricultural practices targeting small-holder farming.
aWhere - Cereal System Initiative in South Asia
The applicability of the lessons from resource constrained environments acutely focus aWhere’s vision: actionable insight.