There are 4 webinars dedicated to 4 teams from the Nairobi INSPIRE Hackathon 2019. These webinars are scheduled for Thursday 4th April 2019 and below you can find the overview and more details.
| DAY | TIME (CEST) | TEAM | WEBINAR URL | MENTOR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thursday 4 April | 1pm | Team 2 | Webinar URL | Karel Jedlicka |
| Thursday 4 April | 2pm | Team 6 | Webinar URL | Raul Palma |
| Thursday 4 April | 3pm | Team 4 | Webinar URL | Michal Kepka |
| Thursday 4 April | 4pm | Team 3 | Webinar URL | Dmitrij Kozuch |
WEBINAR 1: Climatic Services for Africa
Thursday 4th April, 13:00 CEST
What is it about:
In this webinar you will learn about the potential of Earth observations and meteorological data analysis in agriculture. Two designed use cases (categorization of an area of interest according to suitability to produce a particular crop, early insect pest threat warning) will be described and the attendees will be invited to brainstorm ideas and plan further work in the team.
Who is it for:
African, European and other agronomy experts, meteorologists, (G)IT developers. Participants in the Nairobi INSPIRE Hackathon 2019.
WEBINAR 2: Open Data and Data Sharing in Agri-Food Chains in Africa
Thursday 4th April, 14:00 CEST
What is it about:
This webinar addresses the issue of open data sharing related to Agri-Food Chains, with focus in Africa.
There is a growing interest in improving data sharing in agri-food sector, in order to fully realise an era of digital farming, as evidenced by the Code of Conduct on agricultural data sharing signed in in Brussels on April 2018. Additionally, there are many other recent initiatives in other domains to foster data sharing and reuse, such as the FAIR principles that although it is focused on research data, some of its principles may also apply in the agri-food sector. Access to accurate agricultural data is vital to develop digital farming and to support farmers and cooperatives to produce more using less resources explore available data sources and data sharing practices between different stakeholders in the agri-food chain (farmers, service providers, advisors, food industry, machinery producers, etc.). This includes data catalogues, standards and data models that would work in Africa.
An important step is to explore available data sources and data sharing practices between different stakeholders in the agri-food chain (farmers, service providers, advisors, food industry, machinery producers, etc.). This includes data catalogues, standards and data models that would work in Africa.
Maybe – we can offer services for data integration and publication of agriculture related data in linked data format
Who is it for:
Data providers, data producers, data integrators, service providers in agri-food sector, policy makers. Also, farmers, agri-businesses, agri-cooperatives. So they can all share their point of view.
WEBINAR 3: IoT Technologies for daily use in Africa
Thursday 4th April, 15:00 CEST
The webinar is focused on the presentation of existing solution for sensor data management – SensLog and experiences of sensor datasets integration from different sources.
There is a lot of sensor data producers that are publishing data in various formats using proprietary or some sort of standardized interfaces. There are growing modern low power networks that allow connectivity for a variety of systems. IoT and sensors are domains that become very important in the coming years. Sensor data are used in a wide range of domains.
This webinar is the starting point of making an overview of technologies, exchange formats for sensor data available in the region and to make a research on available datasets from the region. Presentations of experience from previous research and innovation projects in the field of sensor data management, integration of sensor datasets from different sources, publishing of sensor data by various standards, will help starting to evolve the idea about sensor data catalogue.
Who is it for:
This webinar is intended for organizations, researcher and experts working with sensor data and IoT technologies. They can be sensor data producers as well as sensor data consumer. Sensor data producers / consumers. Communication service providers.
WEBINAR 4: Open Land Use Map for Africa
Thursday 4th April, 16:00 CEST
What is it about:
In this webinar you will learn about how to improving land use planning in communities. Territorial planning and land use is a global challenge, but for Africa, in the light of increasing deforestation, desertification, increasing population – the problem areas of sustainable management of land and resources is quite crucial.The webinar will discuss how to address the problem of poor land planning and thus all the consequences that it causes: deforestation, uncontrolled urban growth, overgrazing, soil erosion etc. There will be presentations of ideas for solutions that includes providing communities with workflows, data and tools to help spatial planning with engagement of all interested parties (authorities and citizens) – participatory land use planning. In particular the use of Earth observation data complimented with crowdsourced data to provide high quality data about land use, land cover and natural resources to communities and then provide them some workflows (methodology) and tools (web/mobile application) is thought to enable community members of various background and roles to discuss and create spatial plan for their community together.
Who is it for:
Land use/urban planners, authorities, interested citizens (activists and others), who have GIS related (remote sensing, GIS) or IT – related education be it user experience or web design, data science, web programming etc.).