Africa GeoConvo Podcast-GIS ,Geospatial,Remote Sensing,Earth Observation,Geography,Volunteering,Community in Africa
The podcast about geospatial innovations and people doing great things with geospatial technology in Africa.Africa Geoconvo is a podcast that invites you to experience the geospatial industry from the African perspective. We invite the voices of people that have always been there in the unexplored corners of history through interviews, to share insights about their careers, their greatest achievements, and their motivations. We also bring you conversations with geospatial startups in Africa and career specialists, in an attempt to introduce you to ideas and innovations in the geospatial industry and help you find your way through the seemingly-endless career options. We hope to keep this podcast both educational and professional and our aim is to help you become a better informed professional. Reach us: africageoconvo.com
Listen on:
Episodes
Friday Oct 08, 2021
Friday Oct 08, 2021
One way to highlight your skills in GIS is through a professional portfolio. Job applications now have recruiters requesting access to a GIS portfolio, helping them get a feel of your skill sets. In this episode, Emmanuel Jolaiya shares about Spatialnode - a new platform where you can build your own personal portfolio, showcase your amazing projects and connect with professionals all over the world. You will learn about his motivation for building this platform, how to get started, and the other amazing features on the platform. Emmanuel Jolaiya with his passion for community development built this platform for the global GIS community to help people without programming skills easily share their projects and share with recruiters
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Freelancing can be an attractive option to pursue and can prepare you for a great professional career ahead. If your job isn't taking too many hours out of your week, you can use your spare time to work on freelance projects and generate extra income. The best part is that it is affordable to start once you have the skills and equipment to get started.
In this episode, Gibson Okeke who has formed a successful GIS career around freelancing shares how he got started and provides great tips for people who are interested in following in his footsteps. On fiverr, he is the number one in the GIS category globally. He shares about his best freelancing platforms, best approach to communicating with clients, pros and cons, and how to be a successful freelancer.
Below are the links to the platforms mentioned in the episode:
Fiverr a freelance service marketplace
Upwork a work marketplace for freelancing
QGIS Open source GIS software
Feel free to connect with us on social media : https://linktr.ee/africageoconvo
Saturday Jul 31, 2021
Saturday Jul 31, 2021
The SpatioTemporal Asset Catalog (STAC) specification provides a common language to describe a range of geospatial information, so it can more easily be indexed and discovered. A 'spatiotemporal asset' is any file that represents information about the earth captured in a certain space and time. In this episode,our guest Chris Holmes shared with us the inspiration behind STAC, the problem it's solving,how you can use it,where you can find it, and why it's important for us to have a unified specification for geospatial data access and discovery in the geospatial community.
This episode is sponsored by HOT. Learn more about HOT at https://hotosm.org
Links
Stac Index- http://stacindex.org to see what's trending in the STAC community and available tools and API that you can use for your projects.
Stacspec https://stacspec.org/ to learn more about the specification.
Google Earth Engine Platform
Microsoft Planetary Computer
Chris Blog about STAC V1.0 release on Medium
Radiant Earth ML Hub
Radiant Earth website
Geoserver
Geonode
OGC Features API
Episode with HOT
Cloud Optimized Geotiff(COG)
Stac Spec Github repository
Application Programming Interface
Subscribe to our newsletter to receive exciting updates on scholarships and other opportunities.
Emmanuel Jolaiya and Omowonuola Akintola are more than happy to hear from you.
Remember to Subscribe :) and share this podcast with a friend!
Happy to connect with you!
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
Wednesday Jun 30, 2021
In this episode, our guest Ernest Opoku-kwarteng shares with us his journey from Geomatic Engineering to Application Development, talks about CERSGIS Ghana, and 2 amazing geospatial applications solving local issues in Ghana. Ernest is the head of the E-mapping and Innovation unit at CERSGIS, a software developer and he enjoys writing scripts and building applications.
Below are some of the links mentioned in the episode:
The Mining Monitoring Portal
Google Earth Engine Platform
Mobile Application on Playstore. This application called Landscape-GH can be used to map and report illegal mining activities in Ghana.
Join the Africa Geospatial Developer group on LinkedIn to connect, learn and share ideas with other Developers from Africa.
If you want to get started with programming you can visit these website mentioned by Ernest - W3schools, Udemy , Coursera, Youtube
Monday May 31, 2021
Monday May 31, 2021
In this episode,Willy Franck shared with us the GeOSM platform,the first open location intelligence platform in Africa. He walked us through the inspiration behind the project,the technical backbone,why it is developed,for who it is developed,how you can use the platform and the plans for the future.
Sponsor:
Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT)(https://hotosm.org)
Links:
The GeOSM Platform: https://geo.sm
Check out the GeOSM github repository to perhaps contribute to the project.
The OpenStreetMap
The Launch of the GeOSM platform on HOT youtube page
Subscribe to our newsletter to receive exciting updates on scholarships and other opportunities
Emmanuel Jolaiya and Omowonuola Akintola are more than happy to hear from you.
Follow us: https://africageoconvo.com
Remember to Subscribe :) and share this podcast with a friend!
Thursday Apr 29, 2021
Thursday Apr 29, 2021
Securing a fully funded program can be a daunting task,but with the right information and strategic positioning,you can be a scholar. In this episode,two GIS Scholars, Adebowale Daniel,an Erasmus Mundus Scholar and Nnenna Nkata a Commonwealth Shared Scholar both shared their experiences and gave some tips on how to position yourself and build a strong profile to win your desired scholarship.
Links:
We found this whatsapp Group ,that post updates about fully funded Scholarships
Follow this forum on Twiiter for scholarship news as well as MomentWithBren
You can also find the shownotes here
Subscribe to our newsletter to receive exciting updates on scholarships and other opportunities
Emmanuel Jolaiya and Omowonuola Akintola are more than happy to hear from you.Please don't forget to share this podcast with your friends and loved ones: https://linktr.ee/africageoconvo
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Sunday Mar 28, 2021
Lenah Kitenge started The Girls Who Map project to engage more women in mapping. In 2020, the project welcomed women participants from 13 countries spread across Africa. Amazing!!!
What should I expect?
You will learn about The Girls Who Map Project and the journey so far
The mapping platform used for the project
Future plans for the project
Skills that are important for women to advance in their GIS career
Useful Links
Learn about Here Map Creator
For tutorials on how to get started, check out the Youtube page
Check out the main Youtube page
Reach her via email and LinkedIn
Some of the organizations she partnered with in 2020 includes Zulu Nomads and African Women in GIS.
Subscribe to our mailing list here
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Sunday Feb 28, 2021
Have you been finding it challenging to get started with Web GIS Development? Are you a software engineer who finds it challenging to transition into GIS Development or you understand GIS but don't know what to do next? You are not alone. In this episode, Emmanuel Jolaiya together with our guest, Wanjohi Kibui helped to provide answers to questions like, where to start from? How to start? How to secure jobs? How to stay motivated, and lots more...
Links
You can reach Wanjohi Kibui here(https://twitter.com/wanjohikibui) and check out his Youtube Series on Geodjango here https://youtube.com/watch?v=QiLO3MQxvds&list=PL7amXK4vKqATa_KrfQ3_tEF_ywAgAqWeJ
You can join the Telegram group on Geodjango here: https://t.me/joinchat/D6VfOBIfhHh4i8yZ19sqbQ
Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/africageoconvo
Reach us via email: https://africageoconvo@gmail.com
Support us on Patreon here: https://patreon.com/africageoconvo
Happy to connect with you on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jeafreezy
Read the full show notes here: https://africageoconvo.com/shows/3
Remember to Subscribe :) and share this podcast with a friend! https://linktr.ee/africageoconvo
Subscribe to our mailing list: https://mailchi.mp/431d1fc48f4b/africa-geo-convo-mailing-list
Who We Are
Africa Geoconvo is a podcast that invites you to experience the geospatial industry from the African perspective. We invite the voices of people that have always been there in the unexplored corners of history through interviews, to share insights about their careers, their greatest achievements, and their motivations. We also bring you conversations with geospatial startups in Africa and career specialists, in an attempt to introduce you to ideas and innovations in the geospatial industry and help you find your way through the seemingly-endless career options. We hope to keep this podcast both educational and professional and our aim is to help you become a better informed professional.
Sponsors
HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.