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WP4 – Kenyan UAV @ TUK
What: WP4 DT-18 Arrives @ TUK Where: Nairobi, Kenya When: 8th March 2016 Who: Robert Wayumba, Gordon Wayumba, Peter Odwe, George, Beatrice Why: As part of WP4, like other Eastern African partners, TUK receives at Delair Tech DT-18 fixed-wing UAV to support prototyping and proof-of-concept for land tenure recording in urban and rural locations in Kenya
WP4 – its4land @ Responsible Robotics Event
What: Responsible Robotics - International Workshop Panels and Policy Drafting - http://responsiblerobotics.org/humanitarian-drones-wrapup/ Where: Den Haag, Netherlands When: 7th and 8th March 2016 Who: Claudia Stoecker Why: Presenting lessons from its4land and its use of UAVs in developing contexts to the 'Responsible Robotics' community - and taking part and providing input into the policy formation event - alongside its4land Ethics Advisor 'Dr. [...]
WP3 – Smart Sketchmap Data Capture
What: WP3 Kenyan Data Capture Where: Kajiado and Nairobi, Kenya When: 26th February to 10th March Who: Malumbo Chipofya, Jan Sahib, Gordon Wayumba, Robert Wayumba, Peter Odwe, and a whole host of others Why: Dialogue and data capture with local communities to support prototyping of smart sketchmaps for Kenyan context. The main objective of the field visit was [...]
WP2 – Kenyan ‘Get Needs’ Fieldwork
What: WP2 Kenyan Fieldwork Where: Kajiado and Nairobi, Kenya When: 26th February to 10th March Who: Serene Ho, Gordon Wayumba, Robert Wayumba, Peter Odwe, and a whole host of others Why: Fieldwork for needs assessment in Kajiado case locations with local communities - and also stakeholder dialogue with government and NGOs/civil society.
Meeting – its4land MT9
What: its4land MT9 Where: Online (participants from Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Rwanda, and Kenya) When: February 16th 2017 (14:00 - 16:00 CET) Who: its4land MT members Why: January fieldwork and mission plans, update on responses to EC recommendations, planning for Year 1 review in Leuven (Belgium), publications update, conference attendance, and much more.
WP4 – UAV Exploitation & Dissemination
What: its4land MT9 Where: Aamsveen, Germany When: 31st January 2017 Who: Claudia Stoecker, Watse Siderius, Mila Koeva, + 23 student MSc participants from Rwanda, Ethiopia, Ghana, China, Nepal, amongst many others Why: Flight planning and data capture trials for DT-18 UAVs to support prototyping work in Work Package 5 and Work Package 3 - and also to demonstration and [...]
WP2 ‘Get Needs’ finalises in Rwanda
What: WP2 - Get Needs - Rwandan Workshops and Data Collection Where: Kigali, Rwanda When: 23rd January 2017 - 2 February 2017 Who: Serene Ho, Mireille Biraro, and Team-INES Why: Serene Ho took the reigns of WP2 back in July and has worked furiously to adapt the designed research approach so it can work across the case countries. Along with Mireille [...]
WP4 Flew and Created – DT-18s get to work
What: WP4 UT-team captures first data with DT-18s Where: Aamsveen, Germany When: January 20 2017 Who: Claudia Stocker (UT), Watse Siderius (UT) Why: After the arrival in December 2016, the UT UAVs got their maiden flights on January 20 in Aamsveen, Germany. The UAV regulatory setup makes it easier for the team from UT to undertake flights in Germany, rather [...]
WP4 Kenyan and Ethiopian UAV Training, Toulouse, France
What: UAV Pilot Training 4 BDU, TUK, and HL Where: Toulouse, France (Delair Tech Headquarters) When: Monday 9th - Friday 13th - January 2017 Who: Berhanu Alemie, Robert Wayumba, Peter Odwe, Dirk Ohnsorge Why: We need to get pilots trained on the DT-18s - who can go on to fly our drones in Rwanda, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Down the track, [...]
WP2 joins forces with Carline Amsing
What: Collaboration for WP2 Where: Netherlands and Belgium When: September 2016 - March 2017 Who: Carline Amsing, Rohan Bennett (UT), Serene Ho (KUL), Malumbo Chipofya (WWU), and Jaap Zevenbergen (UT) Why: WP2 has jumped at the chance to work with Netherlands-based GIMA MSc student Carline Amsing. In her MSc thesis, Carline is investigating the alignment between the technological opportunities created by smart [...]
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