By Msilikale Msilanga New skills are developed every year based on available urban challenges (Demand-based). Some of the urban challenges are caused by not involving the community to develop urban plans. Resilience academy programs have developed training of the trainers in order to share skills on how urban planning can…

Written by Msilikale Msilanga This Month; July 2021, the Resilience Academy is partnering with OMDTZ, The World Bank and other partners to engage university students from UDSM, ARU, SUA and SUZA to participate in the industrial training program. …

By Msilikale Msilanga Skills development On 8th and 9th June 2021, Resilience Academy in collaboration with GeoICT4e coordinated a training to University experts from UDSM, ARU, SUA, SUZA, MoCU, UTU, NOVIA, and TURKU MK to provide skills on e-learning using digicampus. …

By Msilikale Msilanga Skills development On 13th April 2021, more than 20 experts from four Tanzania universities; 1. Universities of Dar es Salaam, 2. Ardhi University, 3. Sokoine University of Agriculture, and 4. State University of Zanzibar attended training of the trainers for Flood mapping, modeling, and predictions. The training…

A Research and Innovation Story In the previous blog post, we explored how detailed geometric drainage data can be collected with smartphones using a community mapping approach. The data was collected in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in the years 2017–2019. In 2020, the mapping initiative was expanded to Mwanza at…

A Research and Innovation Story To walk with dry feet on the streets is taken for granted in some parts of the world. But did you know that each and every street in a city must be engineered and designed in a way so that it conveys water into the…

On the 15th December 2020, the Finnish ambassador in Tanzania Mrs. Riitta Swan paid a courtesy visit to Ardhi University where she met Ardhi University Vice-Chancellor Prof. Evaristo Liwa and his assistants. Ambassador Riitta Swan was accompanied by Prof. …

By Msilikale Msilanga Every year, Resilience Academy is preparing a data visualization challenge to University students in order to give an opportunity to young university students from four Tanzanian universities (4) to learn geospatial data visualization tools and techniques and in practice while delivering visualization of selected, real-world visualization cases…

A Research and Innovation story In an urban environment with rivers that can burst out of their banks within a blink of an eye, every minute counts. Early warning can make that difference, but in order to issue early warning, forecasting systems, fed by monitoring need to be in place…