Thanks Ben. I'll scribble thoughts over the weekend. Hope you have a good meeting on 19th.
Best wishes
David
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Associate Professor in Sustainable Urban Development
University of Oxford
@sustainable_urb
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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 07:52:52 +0100
From: Dan Bwanika <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Geo Data, Urbanisation, Climate Changes and Tropical Africa
Pat
Africa was slow, very slow in the past to handle such tragedies. Now there is the urgency. Once again Africa has to be grateful for grate innovator and innovationns that makes it possible to highlight these and other similar issues in such public forums for action.
One more important issue here is that Africa's forests are not only beautiful but enormous resources for rare medicinal drugs and other compounds that can save humanity from cancers, Alzheimer and such diseases. For evolutionists , the research possibilities are enormous.
It will be huge hard work to catalogue all this data but for those with passion it is all rewarding and a destination to a Noble Prize worthy pursuing.
Hopefully; researchers, inventors and innovators, students and their professors, tree lovers, environmental enthusiasts and professors will find room to do more for the betterment of humanity.
Uganda welcomes all. (Ron cattle keepers in Uganda are in battle with ticks can you help?!)
Best Wishes
Daniel Bwanika
On 12/12/17, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX) <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Daniel and the Africa Contingent,
>
> Our heart goes out to so much of humanity having to deal with a
> diminishing world due to over consumption by others.
>
> In light of this sadness, if I may, still some good news!
> First of all, the GeoForAll Lab www.AWorldBridge.com is successfully
> delivering a UN/FAO product specifically to serve the urgent needs of
> North Africa, in addressing the recent infestation of the Fall
> Armyworm (moth/ caterpillar),
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_armyworm. Ron Fortunato is getting
> kudos from FAO for the monitoring system his New York Fei Tian
> University students built for FAO. I will let Ron share the details if anyone is interested.
>
> This is in addition to the Locust Intervention tracking system
> AWorldBridge is also building for FAO for North Africa. And of course
> there is also the OpenCitySmart work his GeoForAll labs are continuing to work on.
>
> The other good news is that there has just been a new release of
> ESA-NASA WebWorldWind! v0.9.0 (we are conservative!).
> The European Space Agency (ESA) has standardized on this platform and
> is working with NASA to accelerate its development.
> https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WebWorldWind/releases/tag/v0.9.0
>
> Forum post:
> https://forum.worldwindcentral.com/forum/web-world-wind/web-world-wind
> -help/158071-web-worldwind-v0-9-0-now-available
>
> WebWorldWind is already the backbone for the ESA Sentinel apps (pretty
> cool
> stuff):
> Sentinel App for iOS:
> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/esa-sentinel/id1036738151
> Sentinel App for Android:
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=esa.sentinel
>
> Given the UN OpenGIS group has recently selected WebWorldWind for
> their web apps, this new version will give them a powerful start.
> https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
>
> [log in to unmask]
> (650) 269-2788 (c)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GeoForAll [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Dan Bwanika
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 6:44 AM
> To: GeoForAll
> Cc: BISA-IPEG; ACUMEN; Urban Geography Discussion and Announcement
> Forum
> Subject: [Geo4All] Geo Data, Urbanisation, Climate Changes and
> Tropical Africa
>
> Forum
>
> Africa in its efforts to develop, what were once Dense Tropical
> forests are now turning into human settlements. This is where geo data
> science comes in handy.
>
> Most African countries do not have animal, insect and plant genetic
> data banks or museums.
>
> It’s a double tragedy now that climate change too is impacting this
> region negatively. The dense Tropical forests have helped Africans to
> survive in many different ways with medicinal plants and different
> types of forests foods that unfortunately are undocumented.
>
> This knowledge is crucial for sustainable development and can be lost
> if Geo Data Science does not establish its footprint here. Typical
> forest people with base knowledge is also rapidly disappearing.
>
> Best Wishes
> Daniel Bwanika.
> _____________________________
> Bwanika Nakyesawa Luwero
>
> Daniel Bwanika
> Box 12413 Kampala
> Uganda
>
> t: +256-752-972-960
> f: facebook.com/uidc.uganda
> www.uidc-ea.org
> e: [log in to unmask]
> t: @uidc_ug
>
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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 14:25:32 +0000
From: Tim Schwanen <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Three-year research position on informal everyday mobilities at Transport Studies Unit, Oxford
Apologies for cross-posting
At the Transport Studies Unit we are hiring a Research Associate for a three year project on informal everyday mobilities in cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, and possibly in India and/or Colombia. The project will consider how and to what extent informal transport systems - (mini)bus, taxi, motorcycle/moped, tri/bicycle - enable upward social mobility and wellbeing for both end users and those, like drivers and operators, who provide such systems. It will combine multiple methods and data, including GPS data, interviews and ethnography, to explore a range of topics such as:
* the relationships between formal and informal transport services;
* the governing of informal services;
* the inclusion, marginalisation and exclusion of certain providers, potential users and places; and
* the effects on income, social networks, health and identity of providers, users and those dependent on both groups.
The exact topics will be determined in consultation with the successful candidate and partners in the PEAK-Urban research programme.
The project is part of the RCUK-GCRF funded PEAK Urban programme, in which various research groups across the University of Oxford collaborate with Universities in China (Peking University), South Africa (University of Cape Town), India (Indian Institute for Human Settlements) and Colombia (EAFIT University). See www.peak-urban.org<http://www.peak-urban.org> for more details.
More information on the advertised post is available at https://www.recruit.ox.ac.uk/pls/hrisliverecruit/erq_jobspec_version_4.display_form. Please direct any informal enquiries to Tim Schwanen ([log in to unmask]) The deadline for application is 12:00 pm on 3 January 2018.
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Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:29:44 +0100
From: Dan Bwanika <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Geo Data, Urbanisation, Climate Changes and Tropical Africa
Sven
I totally agree on the importance of this field.
May be let me point you where the failure on use of geo data based system has been slow to emerge in large part of Africa.
Geography as a professional discipline is instead and largely taught as an education course, taught to prospective teachers. Medical doctors, Engineers, Ecologists etc., need mapping knowledge! For the above reasons, there has been slow penetration of geo-informatic education in this part of the world compared to let us say Europe.
That is where the problem starts!
For instance I have argued the Ministry of Health here, to use mapping information in the distribution of medical drugs, based on spatial disease spread. I have argued too it would have applied on trade and commerce, population, social and economic data instead of using mere statistical sampling as a tool of data collection.
Working in a University environment, I discovered that students every semester had different ailments but the university sickbay continued buying the same drugs! Mapping these events provided a clearer picture over a two year period.
It therefore wouldn’t be different on a national and local level with four climatic seasons and worse still with erratic climate change this part of the world is witnessing.
Now factor in Biodiversity information change due to erratic climatic change, the data derived must be colossal.
Of recent, I understand the Ministry of health has started acting on the advice. Use of geo data information will make planning in Africa more effective than use of traditional statistical methods.
That is how important geo- informatics is changing everything known about data analysis.
Best Wishes
Dan
On 12/13/17, [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear Daniel, all,
>
> This is a big and important topic, indeed. Before looking into the
> possibly required new data gathering and knowledge sharing efforts it
> might be worth to examine how much related activities already exist
> with which data could be mobilized and integrated. From colleagues I
> heard at least about GBIF's Biodiversity Information for Development
> (BID) and the JRS African Biodiversity Challenge. These initiatives -
> and the like - may provide solutions for new data gatherings, and most
> likely for the data management and long-term access for newly gathered
> inputs, too. Given that e.g. GBIF is currently more of an option for
> continued data access, i.e. less suitable for near-real time
> information, some sort of combined system architecture might be
> thinkable. The organized analysis of the existing landscape, and the
> development of a governance approach for local data collections and their processing chains is a huge task, but certainly worth considering.
>
> At the recent UN Environment Assembly, it was announced that an
> African Citizen Science Association is in the making. Maybe you
> already know about some details - I am still looking forward to learn
> about this. Anyway, I could very well imagine that this new
> association could provide a very valuable umbrella in order to address
> some of these issues and to partner with the required organizations in
> order to improve the current situation on large geographic coverage.
>
> Best, Sven
>
>
>
> ________________________________
> From: GeoForAll [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of
> Ronald Fortunato [[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: 13 December 2017 14:40
> To: Patrick Hogan
> Cc: BISA-IPEG; ACUMEN; GeoForAll; Urban Geography Discussion and
> Announcement Forum; Dan Bwanika
> Subject: Re: [Geo4All] Geo Data, Urbanisation, Climate Changes and
> Tropical Africa
>
> Daniel,
>
> We might be able to modify the The UN application we’re building is
> for onsite data acquisition - the field person identifies various
> stages of presence, life cycle, level of infestation, etc. The data
> set is then sent to the UN where they determine the level and schedule
> for treatment. And as Patrick requested, are pests tracked now, and
> how? We could possibly create a new app which performs similar
> functions for your livestock farmers, given the functional
> specifications you need. The current development acquires data which is designed for preventative action.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Ron
>
> Ron Fortunato
> President, Trillium Learning
> Mobile: (862) 222-2233
> Office (973) 907-2332
> Trillium Learning - Real-world Process-Based Learning A World Bridge®
> www.aworldbridge.com<http://www.aworldbridge.com>
>
>
> On Dec 13, 2017, at 8:28 AM, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
> <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
> Daniel,
> How is this pest (tick) being tracked now? And what is being done with
> that information?
> -Patrick
>
> On Dec 12, 2017, at 10:53 PM, Dan Bwanika
> <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
>
> Pat
>
> Africa was slow, very slow in the past to handle such tragedies. Now
> there is the urgency. Once again Africa has to be grateful for grate
> innovator and innovationns that makes it possible to highlight these
> and other similar issues in such public forums for action.
>
> One more important issue here is that Africa's forests are not only
> beautiful but enormous resources for rare medicinal drugs and other
> compounds that can save humanity from cancers, Alzheimer and such
> diseases. For evolutionists , the research possibilities are enormous.
>
> It will be huge hard work to catalogue all this data but for those
> with passion it is all rewarding and a destination to a Noble Prize
> worthy pursuing.
>
> Hopefully; researchers, inventors and innovators, students and their
> professors, tree lovers, environmental enthusiasts and professors will
> find room to do more for the betterment of humanity.
>
> Uganda welcomes all. (Ron cattle keepers in Uganda are in battle with
> ticks can you help?!)
>
> Best Wishes
>
> Daniel Bwanika
>
>
> On 12/12/17, Hogan, Patrick (ARC-PX)
> <[log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>> wrote:
> Daniel and the Africa Contingent,
>
> Our heart goes out to so much of humanity having to deal with a
> diminishing world due to over consumption by others.
>
> In light of this sadness, if I may, still some good news!
> First of all, the GeoForAll Lab
> www.AWorldBridge.com<http://www.aworldbridge.com/> is successfully
> delivering a UN/FAO product specifically to serve the urgent needs of
> North Africa, in addressing the recent infestation of the Fall
> Armyworm (moth/ caterpillar),
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_armyworm. Ron Fortunato is getting
> kudos from FAO for the monitoring system his New York Fei Tian
> University students built for FAO. I will let Ron share the details if anyone is interested.
>
> This is in addition to the Locust Intervention tracking system
> AWorldBridge is also building for FAO for North Africa. And of course
> there is also the OpenCitySmart work his GeoForAll labs are continuing to work on.
>
> The other good news is that there has just been a new release of
> ESA-NASA WebWorldWind! v0.9.0 (we are conservative!).
> The European Space Agency (ESA) has standardized on this platform and
> is working with NASA to accelerate its development.
> https://github.com/NASAWorldWind/WebWorldWind/releases/tag/v0.9.0
>
> Forum post:
> https://forum.worldwindcentral.com/forum/web-world-wind/web-world-wind
> -help/158071-web-worldwind-v0-9-0-now-available
>
> WebWorldWind is already the backbone for the ESA Sentinel apps (pretty
> cool
> stuff):
> Sentinel App for iOS:
> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/esa-sentinel/id1036738151
> Sentinel App for Android:
> https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=esa.sentinel
>
> Given the UN OpenGIS group has recently selected WebWorldWind for
> their web apps, this new version will give them a powerful start.
> https://worldwind.arc.nasa.gov/
>
> [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> (650) 269-2788 (c)
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: GeoForAll [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
> Of Dan Bwanika
> Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2017 6:44 AM
> To: GeoForAll
> Cc: BISA-IPEG; ACUMEN; Urban Geography Discussion and Announcement
> Forum
> Subject: [Geo4All] Geo Data, Urbanisation, Climate Changes and
> Tropical Africa
>
> Forum
>
> Africa in its efforts to develop, what were once Dense Tropical
> forests are now turning into human settlements. This is where geo data
> science comes in handy.
>
> Most African countries do not have animal, insect and plant genetic
> data banks or museums.
>
> It’s a double tragedy now that climate change too is impacting this
> region negatively. The dense Tropical forests have helped Africans to
> survive in many different ways with medicinal plants and different
> types of forests foods that unfortunately are undocumented.
>
> This knowledge is crucial for sustainable development and can be lost
> if Geo Data Science does not establish its footprint here. Typical
> forest people with base knowledge is also rapidly disappearing.
>
> Best Wishes
> Daniel Bwanika.
> _____________________________
> Bwanika Nakyesawa Luwero
>
> Daniel Bwanika
> Box 12413 Kampala
> Uganda
>
> t: +256-752-972-960
> f: facebook.com/uidc.uganda<http://facebook.com/uidc.uganda>
> www.uidc-ea.org<http://www.uidc-ea.org/>
> e: [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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>
>
>
> --
> _____________________________
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>
> Daniel Bwanika
> Box 12413 Kampala
> Uganda
>
> t: +256-752-972-960
> f: facebook.com/uidc.uganda<http://facebook.com/uidc.uganda>
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> <greenroads0.jpg>
>
>
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Box 12413 Kampala
Uganda
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