Author: Emma Nkonoki / Geo-ICT team An inspiring workshop week related to entrepreneurship and innovation was held as a collaborative effort of the Geo-ICT team in March 2019 in Dar es Salaam. The aim of the workshop week was to foster a close working connection and...
Trainings held so far
In the Geo-ICT project, the staff of partnering universities has been trained in the following topics: Introduction to geoinformatics (November 2017) Pedagogy for teaching staff (March 2018) Remote sensing with open source tools (March 2018) Entrepreneurship,...
Tanzania’s preparedness for climate challenges is supported by cooperation between the Geo-ICT partners
Photo credits: Ramani Huria, https://www.flickr.com/photos/ramanihuria/ The World Bank has granted funding for the five Geo-ICT partners, University of Turku, Ardhi University, Sokoine University of Agriculture, State University of Zanzibar, and University of Dar es...
Tanzanian young experts’ visit to Finland
During September - November 2018, we had the pleasure to host a group of seven young project experts at the University of Turku (UTU) in Finland, Departments of Geography and Geology, and Future Technologies. The experts came from the project's four Tanzanian partner...
Geo-ICT activities 2017
As the wrap-up of last year's project activities is topical right now, it is time to look back and see what we have achieved during the first year of our Geo-ICT project. Since the beginning of the project, we have organized several workshops and trainings for the...
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Finnish organization’s planning workshop – the importance of contact meetings to improve collaboration and develop common ways of working
The GeoICT4e project team has almost 60 experts from Finland and Tanzania – of which around twenty experts are from Finland. Tanzanian experts have been able to organize some local meetings between their own teams, and to collaborate with each other. Small teams of...
GeoICT4e experts delve into local e-learning and challenge -based learning solutions in Tanzania
During the end of August and first days of September 2021, the GeoICT4e -project experts were finally able to meet face-to-face in Tanzania and dwell on better to local e-learning and challenge-based learning solutions. GeoICT4e experts Niina Käyhkö, Antero Järvi and...
DigiCampus Training for GeoICT4e and Resilience Academy experts
On 8th and 9th June 2021, GeoICT4e and Resilience Academy in collaboration arranged a training to University experts from UDSM, ARU, SUA, SUZA, MoCU, UTU, NOVIA, and TURKU UAS to provide skills on developing e-learning content utilizing Digicampus. The training was...