What: UAV data collection in Kenya - Kajiado Where: Mailua, Kajiado When: 7 - 8 March, 2018 Who: Technical University of Kenya (TUK), Hansa Luftbild Münster (HL), University of Twente (ITC) Why: After being patient for over one year, the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) approved TUK’s request to receive a special flight permission for [...]
What: its4land Advisory Board meeting Where: University of Twente/ITC, Enschede, Netherlands and via Skype When: 29 March, 2018 Who: Advisory Board members: Judy Kariuki (United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA)), Michael Nagenborg (University of Twente), Matt Delano (Trimble), Frank Pichel (Cadasta), Kees de Zeeuw (Dutch Kadaster), Markus Gerke (TU Braunschweig), Rohan Bennett (Swinburne business school), Grenville [...]
What: Common Exploitation Booster meeting Where: University of Twente/ITC, Enschede, Netherlands and via Skype When: 7 March, 2018 Who: the its4land team and Tunde Kallai, Senior EU expert Common Exploitation Booster Why: The European Commission offers support services for ongoing R&I projects across the FP7 and H2020, one of them being the so called 'Common Exploitation Booster service' (CEB). The CEB services aim [...]
What: Land and Poverty Conference 2018: Land Governance in an Interconnected World Where: World Bank, Washington, DC, United States When: 19-23 March, 2018 Who: Serene Ho from KU Leuven and Malumbo Chipofya and colleagues from Muenster University (WWU) What: The its4land team is once again looking forward to being present at, and participating in, the annual World Bank Land [...]
What: Common Exploitation Booster meeting Where: University of Twente/ITC, Enschede, Netherlands and via Skype When: 7 March, 2018 Who: the its4land team and Tunde Kallai, Senior EU expert Common Exploitation Booster Why: The European Commission offers support services for ongoing R&I projects across the FP7 and H2020, one of them being the so called 'Common Exploitation Booster service' (CEB). The CEB services [...]
What: its4land obtained a special flight permission to conduct UAV flights in Kenya Where: Kajiado and Kisumu, Kenya When: 29 January, 2018 Who: Technical University of Kenya Why: The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority grants authorization to operate the UAV for the its4land mapping activities for the time from 19 February to 9 March. Authorization was [...]
What: UAV data collection in Zanzibar Where: Pemba and Unguja, Zanzibar When: 31 January - 8 February, 2018 Who: Claudia Stöcker (ITC) with support from WeRobotics Flying Labs Tanzania and Commission of Lands Zanzibar Why: As the its4land project may not be able to fly the UAV in all case countries (Rwanda, Kenya and Ethiopia), [...]
Photo credit: Lesley Pruitt, Monash GPS What: Presentation at the Gender Peace and Security institute Where: Monash University (Australia) When: 21 February, 2018 Who: Serene Ho ICT4D: whose ‘I’, which ‘T’ and how to get to ‘D’? Discussing the politics of innovation from a H2020 ICT4D project Governments and global organisations are increasingly funding ICT initiatives [...]
What: Acceptance of two FIG abstracts When: for FIG conference, 6-11 May, 2018, Instanbul, Turkey Who: Koeva et al. and Stöcker et al. Why: Koeva et al.: “Its4land - Challenges and Opportunities in Developing Innovative Geospatial Tools for Fit-For-Purpose Land Rights Mapping” Stöcker et al.: “Towards UAV-based Land Tenure Data Acquisition in Rwanda: Needs Assessment and [...]
What: 3rd Annual Land Conference - conference theme: Promoting an evidence-based Land Administration System in Ethiopia When: 15-16 May, 2018 Who: The Institute of Land Administration of Bahir Dar University Why: Call for abstract submission
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