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Milsat Technologies–Revolutionizing Africa’s Data Ecosystem

Milsat is a "Data Acquisition as a service (DaaS) company focused on building location data collection tools, methodologies, and native analytical concepts specifically for the African ecosystem". 
 
In this episode of our startup series, you will hear from the founder who is on a mission to make data acquisition in Africa valid and native. Taslim shares his love for geography and gives a deep dive into his geospatial career journey and why this innovative project is important for the African Ecosystem.
 
Learn more about Milsat: https://milsat.africa 

HOTOSM Data Quality Internship

Data quality is fundamental for end-users benefiting from open mapping data including communities, organizations, and governments.
 
In this episode, Yves Emmanuel from OSM Cameroon shares his experience from HOT Data Quality Internship. He shares his perspective about data quality, the approaches to creating data quality, and how to prepare for the next round of application opening soon. This is a paid internship with an opportunity to gain hands-on experience in remote mapping and validation using tools such as JOSM, OSMCha, MapRoulette.
Links:
Learn more about the internship by checking out the application for 2020: https://www.hotosm.org/jobs/data-quality-internship/
Episode 2 with HOT: https://africageoconvo.com/shows/2
To get an update on the next round of application, follow HOT on Twitter and LinkedIn
To sign up on OpenStreetMap: https://www.openstreetmap.org/user/new
To learn more about YouthMappers: https://africageoconvo.podbean.com/e/the-youthmappers-network/

Geoluminous:Illuminating Geospatial Technology

Geoluminous Co. Ltd is a female founded geospatial startup providing platforms, products and experiences with the aim of helping more people discover and connect to the geospatial industry.
In this episode, Esther Onyekachi Ogbu, the Chief Visionary Officer, shared with us her background in the GIS and creative industry, how she discovered her passion for cartography and how her interest in geo-creativity led to the start of her own company and her non-profit initiative, with the support of her co-founder Omowonuola Akintola.
Links:
Learn more about Geoluminous: https://geoluminous.co.uk/
Shop for Geoluminous mappy items here: https://geoluminous.co.uk/shop/
Learn more about the #30daysmapchallenge: https://twitter.com/search?q=%2330daysmapchallenge&src=typed_query
Episode 2 with HOT: https://africageoconvo.com/shows/2
Follow and connect with us: https://twitter.com/africageoconvo

The YouthMappers Network

Youthmappers network is a global community of university students capitalizing on web-based open geospatial technologies to respond and address developmental needs around the globe. In this episode, we sit down with Tommy Charles, the regional ambassador for Youthmappers Sierra Leone, to talk about his journey as a youthmapper member, how to be a part of the network, and the benefits. You will also learn about the Power Mapping Grid Project where they contributed to minigrid feasibility analysis by mapping roads and buildings in rural towns in Sierra Leone. 
 
Learn more about Youthmappers - https://www.youthmappers.org/
Power Mapping Grid Project - https://www.osmsierraleone.com/projects/power-grid-mapping

African Drone and Data Academy

The African Drone and Data Academy (ADDA) is giving access to 21st
century skills for young professionals in Africa through drone training. In
this episode, we sit down with Ndapile Mkuwu and Alexander Mtambo who
are currently Senior drone instructors at the academy. Ndapile and Alex
were part of the first cohort before becoming instructors at the academy. In
this episode, you will learn about drone technology, ADDA, the courses
they offer and how you can take advantage of this academy to learn drone
and improve your skills.
Link in this episode
Download free drone imagery: https://openaerialmap.org/
Learn about Pix4D for processing drone imagery: https://www.pix4d.com/
Reach out to the academy via email : adda@vt.edu
Connect with Ndapile on twitter: https://twitter.com/Ndapile_M

Data Science & Geospatial

With data science, deeper insights can be extracted from data using comprehensive algorithms and analytical methods. In this Episode, we sit down with Abba Barde, a data scientist who has worked in a wide range of sectors and now in the geospatial field. This episode will expose you to the world of data science, what to learn to get started, where to find resources, how to participate in competitions to build a strong portfolio, and all you need to know to explore a data science career. Abba Barde is currently with Radiant Earth Foundation
Links in this episode 
 
Learn Data Science on Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/
 
Get a scholarship to get started on Udacity: https://www.udacity.com/scholarships
 
Don’t forget to also check out Datacamp on Youtube and Website 
 
Get started with Statistics for free on this Youtube channel https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=3+blue+1+brown
 
Get Started with Competitions on Kaggle https://www.kaggle.com/competitions and don’t forget to start with the Titanic Dataset as mentioned in this episode.
 
Check out Zindi Africa for some other competitions as well: https://zindi.africa/
 
Check out the Radiant Earth ML HUB, a cloud-based open library dedicated to Earth Observation training data for Machine Learning - https://www.radiant.earth/mlhub/
 
Tutorials to get started with the ML Hub - https://medium.com/radiant-earth-insights/accessing-and-downloading-training-data-on-the-radiant-mlhub-api-f04dc635592f

2021- Year in Review

This special holiday episode gives a recap of interviews we had in 2021. From Volunteering to Web Development to Securing Funding to Freelancing etc., you will hear a summary of each episode and get motivation to probably listen to the full episodes, sometimes. Finally,  a big shout out to all our followers and listeners from all over the world.
 
We have created this survey here to help us learn about what you enjoy and how we can improve. This will help us shape our contents for next year and serve you better. We appreciate your support always.

The ESA Open Mapping Hub

The Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) Open Mapping Hub is supporting HOT's goal of mapping an area home to one billion people in areas vulnerable to disasters or experiencing multidimensional poverty across 94 countries. In this episode, we speak with Monica Nthiga, the Regional Director for the Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA) Open Mapping Hub. The ESA hub will be supporting communities and organizations in 22 countries across Africa and Monica shares extensively on how their plans and how people in the region can get involved.
This Episode is sponsored by HOT
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