Team TAHMO member, Gilbert Mwangi, participated this week (13-17 July 2015) in a business development workshop in Rwanda. The idea included the lightning sensor used in this Hackaday project. Fourteen partcipants, divided over five teams, developed their business models for innovation involving water & it (http://viawater.nl/en/the-library/articles-and-reports/wanted-rwandan-water-ict-professionals).

The business idea is to use the lightning sensor, together with regular weather stations and numerical weather predictions, to build an extreme weather early warning system for Musanze, an important tourist town in northern Rwanda. The idea won the first prize, consisting of $2000 for further market research.