{"id":4518,"date":"2025-07-29T13:52:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgs.kibu.ac.ke\/?p=4518"},"modified":"2025-07-29T13:52:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-29T13:52:44","slug":"joshua-nyangau-okemwa-phd-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kibu.ac.ke\/sgs\/joshua-nyangau-okemwa-phd-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Joshua Nyang\u2019au Okemwa PhD Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"4518\" class=\"elementor elementor-4518\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-32be6c2c elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"32be6c2c\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-16700dff\" data-id=\"16700dff\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-5d8b3cee elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"5d8b3cee\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJoshua Nyang\u2019au Okemwa, a student of Doctor of Philosophy in Information Technology successfully defended his thesis titled, \u201c<strong>Modelling Semantic Interoperability in Distributed Health Information Systems through Enabling Techniques<\/strong>\u201d on 29<sup>th<\/sup> July, 2025 at 0900hrs. 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