Using Affordable RFID tags to Serve and Pursue Justice

In a number of developing economies, there is a growing gap between the haves and have-nots. This has led to a spike in many petty crimes often leading to the arrest and detention of many people around police stations and at times violation of their rights to freedom or justice. This is due to lack of coordinated policing and enough temporary detention infrastructure in addition to having few qualified justice professionals. Many a time, police cells are congested by petty criminals who would otherwise be charged and cautioned or investigated without the need for physical detention. In this innovation, we are using cheap readable RFID tags to tag every potential petty criminal or a suspected criminal who has a case file opened up at the police station. On RFID tag, is written all electronic case information including the petty criminals identification details. As terms of their bond and release from the police detention, the tagged criminal must wear this tag for as long as his case is being pursued/investigated by police. Police officers will carry an RFID reader/writer device and will carry an electronic list of police suspects who have been tagged and released on bail. The list will consist of the details of the suspect and their GPS location and a potential geo-fence within where the suspect is mandated to stay.  In reaching the geo-fenced area, a mobile application will alert the police officer and display the names of the suspects that are meant to be checked on that day. It will in addition to show a google map with the registered location of the suspect(s). The officer can then go and visit the suspect/released criminal to keep track of their where about. If a suspect is found then, their tag is scanned and updated with the most recent electronic case details.

Using google Analytics in large Public Universities in Africa

In Africa, university education is still wholly funded or greatly subsidized by governments. This dependency on government funding has often led to slow adoption of current trends, technologies and has affected decision making that will move these institutions into the 21st Century. Decisions are often made based on outdated policies that don't take into account current trends and thus can always be challenged and often lead to wrong visions, missions and growth strategies. These universities have been around for quite sometime and often have data 'silos' that contain very invaluable information that has, and is still collected from their day to day processes. This data once collected is often stored in isolated databases and report generation often lies with secretaries and administrators. These reports do not often make meaningfull high level analysis of the data to help in the day to day decision making by the high-level decision makers in these Universities. Using analytical tools like Google Analytics to mine these data  'silos' can make decision making in these universities up-to date and will help to re-align policies and strategies with realities from true knowledge extracted from their existing data silos.