🇹🇿 In the 9th video in our series, Leka from Tanzania Flying Labs shares how the Flying Labs Network empowers local growth by supporting local experts with skills, technology, and support.
📺 Take it away, Leka!
#PowerOfLocal #LocalExperts #TechForGood
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Leka Tingitana
@lekaTZA
Drone pilot and spatial data analyst. Combining aerial technology and data analysis to provide actionable insights for clients. #drones #GIS #dataanalysis
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Accelerate your image classification process with SAM tool, which quickly segments objects from #drone imagery. Don't believe us? explains the benefits of simplifying the segmentation stage: lnkd.in/gejAv4zm.
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Our session on accelerating Africa’s progress in dev't of emerging #healthtech @ #AHAIC2023. It aims to increase awareness of the potential of these technologies in tackling health issues and discuss the regulatory frameworks & investments required for their dev't.
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Get insights from , Director of Tanzania Flying Labs (), as he speaks at our session on the use of drones in healthcare delivery and the challenges associated with their deployment in Africa at #AHAIC2023.
Learn more: bit.ly/3YnBWbo
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To avoid an aneurysm add a 2-8 hour delay when flying with . Sample space: 3 flights all delayed.
Tubuni miji kwa ajili ya watu (na mazingira ya asili), siyo magari 📌
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To improve #Tanzania transport infrastructure and services, cities need a new strategic vision that focuses on people rather than cars and emphasizes equitable, efficient, and cost-effective modes of transport. Non-motorized modes are very important: wrld.bg/MA1E50MnoRY
Welcome to see opening at Shoppers Plaza. More of this and less pubs in #daressalaam. I couldn't help but notice a book titled "Why Men Love Bitches on the top shelf 😬
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Roads enhance quality of life. This was one of the worst city roads in Kinondoni District. Ahsanteni 👏🏾
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Coming to a school near you. We're scaling up our #STEM program through ToT in 🇹🇿. youtu.be/cV6U5WjXXpc bit.ly/3zgn4ka. #SDG4 #SDG5
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Great reporting by
on #PrecisionAir crash
First pointing out 's "decent safety record". Spot on, the airline is trusted & has more than good safety record
2nd; emergency response & rescue from efforts Wananchi & fisherman👏
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#Starlink 🛰 will catalyze the democratization of big #data by giving local communities the power to rapidly transact #geospatial 🌏 info.
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Yet another example of *locally-led* practice from the Flying Labs Network: This is how Tanzania Flying Labs & Friends are using drones to support heritage conservation. bit.ly/3PAfZBB
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How do you monitor an 822 km² park with #drones? You DON'T but you can still get useful insights and info from #drone data in tandem with satellites 🛰️
bit.ly/3dzznkV.
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Neno geospatial lina sehemu mbili:
Geo - Dunia 🌍
Spatial - ukubwa, umbo, eneo📍
Kwa hiyo geospatial ni ukubwa, umbo, na eneo la kitu fulani duniani.
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Geography teacher, Brett Dascombe, shares some valuable tips for teaching STEM and helping students succeed through GIS. Read more here!
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Uthibitisho wa kisayansi kuwa #ndegenyuki zinaweza kuchangia kutokomeza malaria nchini 🇹🇿. Drones for Area-Wide Larval Source Management of Malaria Mosquitoes: mdpi.com/1733826 #mdpidrones via
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The final step in eliminating malaria is to take the fight directly to the mosquitoes 
breeding habitat: bit.ly/34GmKL7. Now the technique using #drones is backed by science: mdpi.com/1733826. @WeRobotics @wizara_afyatz #Tanzania #SDG3
breeding habitat: bit.ly/34GmKL7. Now the technique using #drones is backed by science: mdpi.com/1733826. @WeRobotics @wizara_afyatz #Tanzania #SDG3Show this thread
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First-ever long range solar powered drone flight in Tanzania happening now: twitch.tv/tdcxs
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Plastic Waste Pickers: The Shunned and Scorned Environmental Warriors of Tanzania
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Information is crucial for an effective emergency preparedness & response plan.
Thank you for training colleagues from Tanzania's Disaster Management Department within the Prime Minister's Office & on how to operate drones.
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A day in the field with , Prime Minister’s Office & Dar Es Salaam Regional Office #DarMAERT Disaster & Emergency Response Teams on use of #drones ✈️ in emergency preparedness & response #dronetraining
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70 students signed up for a STEM bootcamp organized by over the holidays. Time is of the essence so I'm also starting the new year in 5th gear. bit.ly/3zgn4ka. #drones #STEMeducation
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#drones are scientific and surveying instruments. #Tanzania is one of the earliest adopters of this tech which will help billions in the #GlobalSouth.
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Exciting times ahead: We have partnered with #ardhiuniversity to further localize #drones in #Tanzania through training, data analysis and much more. Let's dream big and setup a geospatial center of excellence. @wizara_ya_ardhi @WeRobotics @WBTanzania
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This week has been a buzz of activity, colleagues from have been in Nairobi training and youth program coordinators to be instructors in #STEM
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Looking for an #internship OR know someone who is?
Come join our team! We have an opening for a Drone & Data intern who will work with and support Flying Labs by building the network’s technical 🦾 capacity.
Learn more here 👉 buff.ly/3kf7wqE
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Read more about the story behind these photos in an interactive Story Map: arcg.is/05CbiL. @WorldVisionCH @WeRobotics @Helvetas @geotellus @Esri
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The Medical Drones project team in a GVC training session led by . Continued capacity building of staff to enhance the quality of comprehensive HIV service delivery for the recently launched medical drones project in Bufumira Island.
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#drone data is supporting Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration (FMNR) in #Tanzania. Thrilled to collaborate with to reverse land degradation. wvi.org/development/pu.
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