[Geo4All] Interacting With Students/Professionals in Uganda

[Suchith Anand]

Hi Daniel,

Thank you for your mail. May I suggest that you and your students join in one of the GeoForAll webinar series to start planning ideas for this. Rafael Moreno is leading our webinar series, and  I will request him to consider an interactive webinar  on OpenCitySmart [1] and NASA Europa Challenge [2] and use the opportunity to plan ideas . It will be great to have  student teams from Africa for next years Europa Challenge.

I fully understand the issues on low internet access in many parts of the developing world. But  things are changing and will change. From my experience in India, things have changed a lot in the last ten years in getting low cost internet access (though still lot of work need to be done esp. in rural areas ). Especially,  in university campuses there is high speed internet at low cost.   I am optimistic that costs for high speed  internet access  will keep coming down in the future.

What is the situation for low cost internet access in University campuses in Uganda? Are you based from a university there?

Please feel free to connect with colleagues in the network and discuss ideas .

Best wishes,

Suchith

[1] https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Opencitysmart
[2] http://eurochallenge.como.polimi.it



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Subject: [Geo4All] Interacting With Students/Professionals in Uganda

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I am trying to find a way of how Professors, Scholars and Researchers
in the Global North can interact with prospective students here in
Uganda for short courses in any field specifically related to; Urban
Geographies, Regional planning, Infrastructure Planning and Design and
New Urban Technologies (Big Data, Urban Architecture & Design,
Cartography, Infrastructure Engineering/Planning etc.,)

Of course there’s need for a high speed internet connection (skype) to
make this possible. French Orange (Africell) has such facilities but
theirs are rather expensive.

If you’re an interested Professor, Scholar and Urban Researcher and
you might find this proposal interestng and has the means of
interacting with students here in Uganda please let me know or we can
talk about it.

Best Wishes,

Daniel Bwanika


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