The use of computer models to provide African and international scientists guidelines for the management of ticks and tickborne diseases, for use in their vaccination programmes, has now become critical. With over 25 years of experience in tick research ICIPE is developing an African wide electronic network for the transfer of information across the internet. CSIRO has a vast comparative advantage in the area of tick modelling through its earlier work on ACIAR project 8303 which saw the development of a tick model in Africa. The two institutions propose to collaborate to implement the model and make results available to NARS. CSIRO proposes to test a Modelling Workshop Format to facilitate adoption of the model. The present proposal is for ICIPE and CSIRO/CTPM to collaborate with the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute (KARI) to (a) validate the model in a new environment, (b) test the proposed modelling workshop protocol, (c) analyse the tick problem in Kenya and design optimal management strategies, and to (d) make the results available to other countries through ICIPE's electronic network as an exemplar of a strategic approach to pest management.