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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement n° 654237
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Outline
- About WIMEA-ICT
- Project Goals
- Creating Open Science Friendly Environment
Creating Open Science Friendly Environment Joseph W Matiko Dar Es - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Creating Open Science Friendly Environment Joseph W Matiko Dar Es - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Creating Open Science Friendly Environment Joseph W Matiko Dar Es Salaam Institute of Technology, Tanzania This project has received funding from the European Unions Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement n
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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)
- Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology, Tanzania
- University of Juba, South Sudan
- University of Bergen, Norway
- Key stakeholders:
- Uganda National Meteorology Authority, Uganda
- Tanzania Meteorology Agency, Tanzania
- South Sudan Meteorology Service, South Sudan
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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
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Creating Open Science Friendly Environment
Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT) http://www.dit.ac.tz Tanzania Meteorology Agency (TMA) http://http://www.meteo.go.tz/
Weather Forecasting Climate services and Warnings Advisory information Teaching Research Consultancy Services WIMEA-ICT Developing Weather Information Data Repository Deploying Automatic Weather Stations Capacity Building
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Creating Open Science Friendly Environment – How?
TMA - Current Setup
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Creating Open Science Friendly Environment – How?
TMA - Proposed Setup
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Creating Open Science Friendly Environment – How?
- Capacity Building
- Web Based Applications Training
- Multimedia Communication Training
- Embedded Programming Training
- Scholarship
- Scholarship for TMA staff
- Establishment of Masters Program in Computational
Sciences and Engineering at DIT
- For building capacity for data handling, manipulation and analysis.
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Acknowledgment
- Tanzania Meteorological Agency (TMA)
- Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology (DIT)
- Dr. Amos Nungu
- Daudi Mboma
- Ombeni Mnzava
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