Gideon is a senior IoT engineer at Code for Africa, CfA and is responsible for spearheading the development and deployment of sensors within the sensors.Africa team. Prior to joining CfA, Gideon worked with various companies as an electrical engineer and full-stack developer. He holds a bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from the JKUAT.

Gideon Maina

Senior IoT engineer

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sensors.AFRICA is a pan-African citizen science initiative that uses sensors to monitor air, water and sound pollution to give citizens actionable information about their cities.&nbsp;The air quality sensors use open source technology from theLuftdaten project. The initiative was seed-funded by innovateAFRICA and is being incubated by Code for Africa.

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sensors.AFRICA is a pan-African citizen science initiative that uses sensors to monitor air, water and sound pollution to give citizens actionable information about their cities.

Constant Cap is the senior product manager at Code for Africa’s ‘sensors.AFRICA citizen science program. He has a deep interest in sustainable mobility, urban resilience and inclusive planning and sits on the Socially Just Public Transport Working Group. He is also involved in the Equitable Mobility for City Health and Wellbeing research project.