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My experience at the EMP Joint Global Training School 2024 - Cover Image
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My experience at the EMP Joint Global Training School 2024

I co-facilitated a geospatial data management session at the Energy Modelling Platform's 2024 training school, helping participants from emerging economies tackle energy access challenges.

How to get GIS going at your school - Cover Image
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How to get GIS going at your school

GIS is the exciting world of modern and applied geography. It can seem overwhelming to implement GIS in your school curriculum. This is a one-stop teacher's guide to getting GIS going in your classroo

School GIS Task: Create a 5km COVID-19 Lockdown Exercise Buffer Around Your House
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School GIS Task: Create a 5km COVID-19 Lockdown Exercise Buffer Around Your House

If you are doing some teaching in the classroom and some online and you are finding "blended teaching" overwhelming, this task is designed for asynchronous self study.

An Intern's Perspective on Her Working Experience at Kartoza During the Summer Vacation - Cover Image
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An Intern's Perspective on Her Working Experience at Kartoza During the Summer Vacation

As a leading Open Source GIS company, Kartoza aims to introduce people and organisations to the world of Open Source GIS in South Africa.

Introducing the First Tangible Landscape in Africa - Cover Image
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Introducing the First Tangible Landscape in Africa

As part of Kartoza's outreach programme, I recently helped the geography department at St Johns College in Johannesburg set up a Tangible Landscape

Report Back on the First QGIS User Conference in Nødebo, Denmark
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Report Back on the First QGIS User Conference in Nødebo, Denmark

I finally have some time to sit down and write up some thoughts on the QGIS User Conference and Developer Meeting (aka Hackfest) that we just held in Nødebo, Denmark.

QGIS Course at AfQUA - Cover Image
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QGIS Course at AfQUA

Kartoza has just wrapped up a three-day Introduction to QGIS course that we gave pro bono at The African Quaternary: Environments, Ecology and Humans conference in Cape Town

MyCOE GCE TechCamp
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MyCOE GCE TechCamp

The AAG (American Association of Geographers) and US State Department, through EIS Africa, ran the South Africa edition of the GCE MyCOE Youth TechCamp from 13-23 July 2014.