I’m Walter Kwami, an information technologist with over 30 years experience designing, deploying, and operating production information systems across healthcare, finance, construction, and the public sector. I currently work in the Department of Information Technology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
My work focuses on how complex systems behave under real constraints: scale, security, reliability, latency, cost, and human factors. Having spent much of my career in well-resourced environments, I’m particularly interested in how technology must be engineered, not merely adopted, when applied in resource-limited contexts—especially in Ghana.
Beyond enterprise IT, I’ve applied remote sensing, UAVs, and geospatial analysis to environmental monitoring, including a pilot project with the Ghana Forestry Commission that surfaced the operational realities of illegal logging in a protected forest reserve.
I write from a practitioner’s perspective, emphasizing systems that survive contact with reality, trade-offs that matter, and technology as infrastructure for public good rather than spectacle.
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