Intelligent CIO Africa Issue 15 | Page 49

COUNTRY FOCUS: GHANA features which are recorded by a 50-strong team in a custom-built state-of-the-art mapping centre. Around 2,000 people are employed knocking on doors to collect household data. www.intelligentcio.com They use tablets with power banks and a customised app to enter information into a central database. This data is then uploaded at the end of each day and validated by more than 80 call centre personnel who call telephone numbers to double-check the accuracy of the data. Crucially, for the many streets with no name and buildings with no number the integrated address management software generates names and assigns addresses, thus ensuring nothing falls through the cracks. INTELLIGENTCIO 49