The Darog Journal - Compute Through

The day of Nov 2, 2018 will remain in my mind as well for my fellow colleagues as it was the day of closing ceremony of our Corporate Services Corp (CSC) program at Terrou-Bi Hotel, Dakar. Fifteen members from 12 different countries worked on Five different projects across Government departments. Each team along with the host organisation had an opportunity to present the final recommendation from the 4 weeks effort.  In the pre-final on Oct 31, subteam 2 (Prasanna Darog, Jana Vincencova and Alexandra Eckman) presented, talking through on the recommendations to Thirteen delegates of different functions from ONAS (National Office of Sanitation of Senegal). This became a rehearsal to the closing ceremony.  The objective of our project was to reduce electricity expenses for ONAS by using various methods and sources of energy. It was interesting to see that based on the last Fourteen months of data and by changing the subscription load or applying different facto...

Wow, 3 weeks are over! Fifteen members from 12 different countries got together on Oct 6, 2018 to be part of IBM Corporate Service Corps (CSC) program and work on various projects (for 4 weeks) across Five different Departments of Government of Senegal. As we were in Week 3, each member of all the sub-teams were busy either compiling and analyzing the knowledge gained in the past 2 weeks or working on the final presentation for the closing ceremony on Nov 2, 2018 at Terrou-Bi Hotel, Dakar. For me and the team supporting ONAS (National Office of Sanitation of Senegal), we started week 3 on a good note discussing on our earlier meeting with the Managing Director of ONAS and his focus areas…. but all of a sudden, we had a setback in the overall game plan. This did not deter us from continuing to work (took a U-turn) though we spoke on the setback few times.   On Thursday Oct 25, after 12 hours of hard work (divide and conquer), we had the initial version of the final ...