raindolf/mbali

Mbali is a Swahili word which means off.Ghana went through a period known as load-shedding. This is when different electrical grids in the country are rationed with power. So one section of the country may have power from 6am-6pm, and another section from 6pm-6am.We extracted some data from the period so its now left for volunteers data analysts… mbali.oasiswebsoft.com Mbali Platform ================= Mbali is a Swahili word which means off.Ghana went through a period known as load-shedding. This is when different electrical grids in the country are rationed with power. So one section of the country may have power from 6am-6pm, and another section from 6pm-6am.We extracted some data from the period so its now left for volunteers data analysts… mbali.oasiswebsoft.com 2014 Update ============== Electricity company of Ghana has commenced the load shedding excercise. It began on the 19th of March 2014. Powered by Ushahidi =================== This platform is powered by Ushahidi. Ushahidi is an open source web application for information collection, vizualisation and interactive mapping. It allows people to collect and share their own stories using various mediums such as SMS, Web Forms, Email or Twitter. For more information about the platform and use cases (case studies) visit: ushahidi.com The data we acquired so far is on the database soo you can extract the data via either json or sql format to study the data. Go to this link for more raindolf.blogspot.com System Requirements ------------------- To install the platform on your computer/server, the target system must meet the following requirements: * PHP version 5.2.3 or greater (5.3 or greater is recommended) * MySQL version 5.0 or greater * An HTTP Server. Kohana, which Ushahidi is built on, is known to work with the following web servers: - Apache 1.3+ - Apache 2.0+ - lighttpd - nginx - Microsoft Internet Information Server (MS IIS) * Unicode support in the operating system Required Extensions ------------------- The follwing is a list of PHP extensions that must be installed on your server in order for Ushahidi to run properly: * PCRE (php.net) must be compiled with –enable-utf8 and –enable-unicode-properties for UTF-8 functions to work properly. * iconv (php.net) is requir …