2021 in Review and Awards in the Geosphere
Wrapping up the year with this bonus episode, where Iniobong Benson discusses the podcast's highlights for the year from an episode about being a geospatial engineer, mentoring, to state of the map Africa conference, as well as #recognitionawards in the #geosphere .
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Some Episodes
- Being a Geospatial Engineer
- Digital Mapping in the Humanitarian context with Janet Chapman (Crowd2Map)
- Mentoring and Volunteering in the geospatial industry
- Introductions Our Why and Some News!
- State of the Map Africa - bringing OSM communities in Africa together.
- Introducing the Digital Earth Africa platform
- Using Geospatial Technology in Geohazard mapping saves lives
Some Geospatial awards
Geospatial World Excellence Awards : The Geospatial World Awards are an internationally-acclaimed premium awards recognizing individuals and organizations behind remarkable innovations and ideas in the global geospatial industry. Initiated in 2007, the awards have recognized over 200+ individuals and organizations till date. (C2M 2020 winner under crowdsourcing)
Geospatial World 50 Rising Stars : The Geospatial World 50 Rising Stars is an initiative by Geospatial Media and Communications to highlight the outstanding accomplishments of young individuals who are proactive and passionate about the value of geospatial technology to the economy and society. In 2021, 50 profiles were selected out of 250 nominations. One of our guests Laura Mugeha was one of the winner in 2021. (Podcast Episode - Being a Geospatial Engineer)
Nominations for 2022 are open till Dec 31st 2021. Form
OSGeo Sol Katz Award : Award for Geospatial Free and Open Source Software (GFOSS) is awarded annually by OSGeo. This award was won by Anita Graser in 2020.
Others
Special Achievement in GIS (SAG) Award - ESRI: Awarded during ESRI User Conference and is usually awarded to organisations…not individuals.
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