African Geospace Promotional Video Creation
African Geospace, a leader in geospatial technology solutions across the African continent, seeks to enhance its online presence through a compelling short corporate video. The goal of this project is to create a 1-3 minute video that effectively communicates the company's mission, values, and innovative solutions. This video will serve as a promotional tool to attract potential clients and partners by showcasing African Geospace's unique offerings and impact in the geospatial industry. The project provides an opportunity for learners to apply their skills in video production, storytelling, and digital marketing. The team will be responsible for conceptualizing the video content, scripting, filming, and editing, ensuring the final product aligns with the company's branding and messaging.
NewsVIZ: Online Data Visualization Platform
The project aims to develop NewsVIZ, an intuitive online data visualization tool designed for users with no coding experience. The tool will enable users to create interactive charts, maps, and graphs that can be easily embedded in websites or reports. NewsVIZ will support various chart types, including bar charts, line charts, pie charts, scatter plots, and more, offering users a wide range of visualization options. Key features include customization for branding, collaboration capabilities for team projects, and interactivity to enhance user engagement through tooltips, zooming, and filtering. Additionally, the platform will ensure accessibility by allowing charts to be exported in multiple formats and ensuring responsiveness across all devices. The project will also involve developing a pricing model with three categories based on feature packages.
EasyRent: Equipment and Venue Rental Platform
EasyRent aims to revolutionize the event planning industry, with a mobile and web application designed to simplify the process of renting equipment and event venues. The platform will allow users to effortlessly browse, select, and rent a wide variety of equipment and locations for both personal and professional use. The goal is to ensure a seamless user experience from booking to payment and delivery, thereby reducing the hassle and time involved in equipment renting. This project will provide learners with an opportunity to apply their knowledge in web and mobile development, user interface design, and database management to create a functional and user-friendly application. Key features of the platform will include: - User registration and profile management - Search and filter options for equipment and venues - Booking and scheduling system - Secure payment gateway integration - Order tracking and delivery management
Geospatial Insights for City as a Service: Lomé Case Study
The project focuses on developing a comprehensive case study for the City of Lomé, Togo, utilizing geospatial data to explore the concept of City as a Service (CaaS). The goal is to analyze how geospatial insights can enhance urban planning, infrastructure management, and service delivery in Lomé. By leveraging classroom knowledge in geospatial analysis and urban studies, learners will assess existing data, identify key urban challenges, and propose data-driven solutions. The project aims to demonstrate the potential of geospatial technologies in transforming urban environments into efficient, responsive, and sustainable ecosystems. Tasks include data collection, analysis, and visualization, all centered around the application of geospatial tools and methodologies.
Digital Marketing Campaign for African Geospace
African Geospace, a leader in space and geospatial technology and data, seeks to enhance its digital presence and reach a broader audience. The goal of this project is to design and implement a comprehensive digital marketing campaign that effectively communicates the company's innovative solutions and services. Learners will analyze current market trends, identify target audiences, and develop strategies to increase brand awareness and engagement. The project involves creating content for various digital platforms, including social media, email marketing, and the company's website. By applying classroom knowledge in digital marketing and analytics, learners will gain hands-on experience in crafting a campaign that aligns with African Geospace's objectives and values.
Geospatial Business Engagement Presentation
African Geospace is seeking to enhance its stakeholder engagement by developing a series of compelling business presentation documents. The goal is to effectively communicate the potential applications and benefits of space and geospatial technologies across various sectors, including agriculture, climate change, mining, urban planning, and renewable energy. This project aims to bridge the gap between technical geospatial data and practical business applications, making the information accessible and engaging for stakeholders. By focusing on these sectors, African Geospace intends to highlight the transformative impact of geospatial technologies in addressing industry-specific challenges and opportunities. The project will involve researching sector-specific needs, identifying key geospatial solutions, and crafting tailored presentations that resonate with stakeholders' interests and priorities. - Research the specific needs and challenges of each target sector. - Identify relevant geospatial solutions and applications for each sector. - Develop engaging and informative presentation documents tailored to each sector. - Ensure presentations are visually appealing and easy to understand for non-technical stakeholders.
Optimal Infrastructure Location Identification Using Data Analytics and Geospatial Data Fusion
To develop a methodology for determining optimal infrastructure locations by fusing various data types and sources, including road infrastructure, urban extension, population data, and habitation locations, climate data, and more. To create a flexible, sector-agnostic approach that can be applied across industries such as infrastructure development, solar energy, and urban planning.
Flood Risk Mapping and Simulation in Togo
To conduct a flood risk mapping and simulation project in one of Togo's five economic regions, leveraging geospatial data, quantitative analysis, and machine learning techniques. To expand the project to other regions for agricultural monitoring and urban expansion analysis, showcasing the versatility of geospatial data in solving environmental and infrastructural challenges.
E-Commerce Store Development
African Geospace is looking to expand its digital presence by developing and launching an online store hosted on a subdomain of its corporate business website. The goal is to create a user-friendly and secure e-commerce platform that allows customers to purchase space-branded apparels and products directly from the company. The store should integrate both debit card and credit card payment methods to ensure a seamless checkout experience. The project should be executed using either the WordPress Astra Theme, Shopify or any other e-commerce framework, or even developped from scratch, depending on the team's preference and expertise, but the store should be connected to USDrop. This project provides an excellent opportunity for learners to apply their knowledge of web development, e-commerce, and payment gateway integration in a real-world setting.
Onefarm
African Geospace aims to revolutionize agricultural decision-making through the development of Onefarm, a satellite data-based application. The primary goal is to provide farmers, finance and insurance providers, and policymakers with accurate, actionable insights on crop health, yield predictions, and environmental conditions. By leveraging satellite imagery and data analytics, the application will help stakeholders make informed decisions that enhance productivity, reduce risks, and optimize resource allocation. The project will involve integrating satellite data, developing algorithms for data analysis, and creating a user-friendly interface for data visualization and reporting. The application will be designed to be accessible and intuitive, ensuring that users can easily interpret and act on the insights provided.
Grant Writing and Content Creation
(1) We want to be recognized in our community and nationally for the work that we are doing. We need to find research funding opportunties and write proposals to find funding. Help us to research organizations providing grants such as CIRDA. Write up proposals in order to apply for these grants. (2) We have a great story to tell and we want it to be picked up by media/social media. We need students to create press releases and create content we can share across our platforms. Students should be prepared to: Help us refine our story to something compelling and news-worthy. Write up press release around multiple news-worthy stories. Identify media outlets that are most beneficial to us/most likely to pick the story up. Send press releases and establish positive rapport with media contacts Secure media exposure for our organization. Create a social content calendar we can use as a marketing tool.