Resilience Academy student internship model as an innovative way to enhance geospatial literate future work force in Africa
Urbanisation challenges Africa’s young labour force, which needs to be skilled to solve problems caused by unplanned urbanisation. This is a major opportunity for African universities and their students’ future employment. However, young, graduated experts need to be able to steer urbanisation to sustainable trajectories with digital skills of geospatial data and technologies, which enable urban transformation. Understanding and addressing this challenge requires innovative, open, and dynamic data collection processes that support management of urban growth, disaster risk and emergency response. At the same time, successful activities are contingent on local capacity to develop accurate, up-to-date information that can support real-time decision making, affect long-term policy and planning, and develop tools to translate data into meaningful action.