Botswana: A New Digital Dawn As Ori Receives Gis Computers

Maun — The Okavango Delta is often described as a ‘miracle of nature’, a luxurious and emerald maze of water pulsing through the heart of the Kalahari Desert.

But for the researchers at the Okavango Research Institute (ORI), monitoring this UNESCO World Heritage Site has recently felt like trying to navigate a high-speed world with a broken compass.

For years, the institute’s computers, the very engines required to process complex climate data and wildlife patterns, had grown sluggish and…