IT company assists Samoa’s Women in Business

WIBDI says their initiatives for making farming more efficient and easy to manage was at a standstill and the challenge led to thorough investigations into why farm managing is so time consuming.

 This is why they have partnered with SkyEye to minus the hassle of walking through an entire multi-acre farm to find the right fruits to pick and figuring out which part of the farm is well nurtured.

One of the services of SkyEye is GPS tracking and monitoring of vehicles.

SkyEye’s expertise in GPS tech along with WIBDI’s range of business associates will make farm managing as well as monitoring as easy as a click of a button.

“I asked the combined team to think forward and to create a system that would hold the organization in good stead,” said WIBDI Director and award winning businesswoman, Adimaimalaga Tafunai.

She says with the use of drone technology, they have mapped 80% of the farms under their organization and a total of up to 15,000 hectares of land. Within these lands are a total of 80,000 coconut trees.

SkyEye’s technicians then trained WIBDI’s employees in managing these sites through tablets and database officers manage the data.

The project is a blessing from SkyEye’s directors Nomeneta Saili and Chris Saili.

“They understood our funding limitations as an NGO. We couldn’t afford to pay for everything up front and SkyEye have already gone ahead with the work, even when we shared with them the fact we we're still negotiating possible funding avenues,” says Tafunai.

She says these are characteristics only a company with values would show and for such she is thankful. Christopher Saili though says the partnership has meant more than just a one time connection with WIBDI.

“To be able to work with WIBDI and demonstrate Samoan ingenuity and sustainable development in something we are very proud of,” said Saili.

The monitoring process is now done by the trained officers of WIBDI.