OUR FELLOWS
Martina Mariki is a young woman of vision. The daughter of an agricultural scientist and a business woman, she is developing a mobile-phone based record keeping system to enhance the performance of poultry farmers, most of whom are women.
I’ve always wanted to do something that connected IT and farming,” says Mariki, who is pursuing a master’s degree in Information Technology at NM-AIST. “I like talking to farmers and am enjoying this work immensely.
Field of Research
Designing a mobile phone-based enterprise resource planning system for smallholder poultry farmers that will be used for information transfer, data collection, and daily communication.