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Creating Open Science Friendly Environment Joseph W Matiko Dar Es Salaam Institute of Technology, Tanzania This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement n ° 654237

Outline  About WIMEA-ICT  Project Goals  Creating Open Science Friendly Environment 2

About WIMEA-ICT WIMEA-ICT - Improving Weather Information Management in East Africa  for effective service provision through the application of suitable ICTs Funding - Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (Norad) under  the NORHED (Norwegian Programme for Capacity Development in Higher Education and Research for Development) scheme Research partners:  Makerere University, Uganda (project leader) o Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology, Tanzania o University of Juba, South Sudan o University of Bergen, Norway o Key stakeholders:  Uganda National Meteorology Authority, Uganda o Tanzania Meteorology Agency, Tanzania o South Sudan Meteorology Service, South Sudan o 3

Project Goal and Components  The project aims to improve the accuracy of, and access to weather information by the communities in the East African region through suitable ICTs for increased productivity and safety . The project has five components  4

Creating Open Science Friendly Environment Tanzania Meteorology Agency (TMA) Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT) http://http://www.meteo.go.tz/ http://www.dit.ac.tz Weather Teaching Developing Weather Forecasting Information Data Repository Research Climate services and Warnings Deploying Automatic Weather Stations Consultancy Services Advisory Capacity Building information WIMEA-ICT 5

Creating Open Science Friendly Environment – How? TMA - Current Setup 6

Creating Open Science Friendly Environment – How? TMA - Proposed Setup 7

Creating Open Science Friendly Environment – How?  Capacity Building o Web Based Applications Training o Multimedia Communication Training o Embedded Programming Training  Scholarship o Scholarship for TMA staff  Establishment of Masters Program in Computational Sciences and Engineering at DIT o For building capacity for data handling, manipulation and analysis. 8

Acknowledgment  Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA)  Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT)  Dr. Amos Nungu  Daudi Mboma  Ombeni Mnzava 9

Thank you! jwmatiko@dit.ac.tz sci-gaia.eu