LEARNING PRACTICAL DIGITAL SKILLS
The Resilience Academy Internship Program exposes hundreds of students annually to industrial training. Under the guidance of the engagement managers, students learn conceptual and practical data collection and management skills combined with workplace skills on community engagement and mapping.
Each year we conduct University student internship programs for eight weeks where students aquire theoretical skills then participate in practial activities that aims to increase their practical and digital skills. Experts from our partner Universities are motivated to coordinate interns program each year in order to help youth develop their necesary skills
Interns Program Activities
The interns engage 50 students from each university partner (UDSM, ARU, SUZA, and SUA) and a few additional students from other Tanzanian universities to make the total of 200+ students.
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The interns activities are conducted for a total of 8 weeks: One week is spent on training university students in various skills, Five weeks are spent on practical skills where students participate into field activities for community mapping and community share-backs, one week is spent on further training about data protocols, data quality, data management and data sharing and last week is spent on final data editing and data sharing where the students share data to the Climate Risk Database
Interns program skills
The skills developed under the Internship program depends on the theme being focused involve mapping of different features for urban development.
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The skills therefore focus on preparation for community engagement, the use of QGIS, map production, data quality assurance, drone flying and drone calibrations, 3D printing, Drone image acquisition, the use of OpenStreetMap and other opensource tools like ODK collect.
Organisation Engagements
For the Internship Program, we have worked together with OpenMap Development Tanzania, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team for Dar es Salaam and Spatial Collective in Zanzibar.
Skills development | Online Courses | University partners | Practical Skills
Youth Attended
skills provided
Experts benefited
Universities involved
Use cases and resilience impacts in the society
Join to our Interns Program
“Join other youth to aquire practical skills to UAV technology and satellite and drone image data processing and machine learning methods for automated data collection among other skills.”