I owe my achievements in life to the ability given to me by google to easily locate communities, and engage them towards better service delivery. I own an NGO that works to improve service delivery in different communities. I have used google guide to map and locate communities, to locate government awarded projects sites within the communities and to track the progress of the contractors easily. Thereby saving me money and time.
I work to improve participatory democracy by empowering citizens and communities with the right data to engage the government and demand for accountability. We created a deviancy from the traditional method of NGOs and CBOs being the voice of their communities to equipping the communities to be their VOICES themselves. Through our work, we have increased the civic space by creating more awareness and more demand for accountability from the citizens to the government by helping them have access to data and utilize it. We then work with the government through our policy dialogues and increased their capacity to be able to engage effectively and deliver services base on need assessment and demand from the communities. I depend on google locate for my community mappings, for directions to new areas I have never being to, Hence I made my a role too, to direct others too to places I have been to. I will gladly say thank you google for my success and achievement. Hence my dedication to the local guide program