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Resilience Academy: Geonode customisation and Source Code revision control

Build an understanding of administering Geonode on the front end of the application. You should be able to interact with Geonode as an admin user and explore all the available features of the application.

Resilience Academy: Using Geonode system

Acquire knowledge on editing basic account information in Geonode platform, work with various document types such as layers and maps. You are able to integrate information from Geonode to other GIS applications and vice versa.

Resilience Academy: Installation of Geonode system

Learn to install Geonode on your computer via several techniques including docker. You are also able to identify the basic requirements needed before installing Geonode.

Resilience Academy: Introduction to Ubuntu Linux

Learn an overview of the following knowledge areas: Ubuntu Linux, learning the Shell and writing Shell Scripts, Office Suite on Ubuntu Linux, and installation of applications on Ubuntu Linux.

Community-based approaches for transformative climate services

Geospatial data, technologies & digital youth skills for social innovations

Geospatial data, technology and digital youth skills for social innovations Join us at the University Of Dar Es Salaam – New Library in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for the exciting Geospatial data, digital technologies, and youth skills for social innovations Symposium! This in-person event brings together experts and enthusiasts from the field of geospatial information and communication technology.Get ready to […]

COP28 side event on transformative climate services – follow the discussion online!

Transformative climate services for decision-makers based on observational data

By Msilikale Msilanga On 6 December 2023, 16:45- 18:15 UTC+4 Resilience Academy is expected to present on transformative climate services at the COP28 conference. The 28th Conference of the Parties (COP28) will be held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from November 30 to December 12, 2023. Resilience Academy is an Observer at the Conference of […]

Mapping the evolution of Unguja’s road infrastructure

Unguja is one of the major islands in the archipelago of Zanzibar. Zanzibar is an island state that is part of the United Republic of Tanzania and has its own autonomous system of land administration. Starting in 2003, the Finnish Government provided financial support to the government of Zanzibar for the implementation of the Sustainable […]

Roads of Mtwara (Tanzania): The importance of background data

Where we have access to. And with what. Can we go there? Can we take the bicycle or the car? And who else is using this road? And why is this important? The Mtwara highway Dataset covers the urban areas of Mtwara, this corresponds to an area of 18,3 km2. This Dataset was generated during […]

Background data of City2Seas Mtwara

Mtwara Buildings data consists of digitalized buildings in the city of Mtwara in south-east Tanzania. The city is located on the coast of the Indian Ocean near the border of Mosambik. The study area consists of only part of the Mtwara city, eight wards out of eighteen. This data was collected in part of a […]

Road map in change in Dar es Salaam’s rapid urban development

Dar es Salaam Roads 2022 -dataset has been produced as a part of the World Bank’s project for urban development in Tanzania. This 2022 dataset is an update to an older version of 2019 and includes estimated average road reserve width for different road classes in the city of Dar es Salaam. Estimated widths of […]