This course introduces you to a set of tools for collecting storing, retrieving at will, transforming and displaying spatial data from the real world for a particular set of purposes such as planning, estimating, and locational decision making for efficiency and effective use of resources and services. It forms one of the basic if not necessary options for all geography students and management planners. it shall cover Introduction of GIS and its role, use of modern technology in spatial data analysis, introduction to basic computer concepts, general operating system, GIS hardware, GIS software and live ware, GIS application areas, institutions using GIS in Kenya. Limitations of GIS technology among others.