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The WILDLABS Community Base is the ideal place to get oriented with the all that our community platform offers, hear about news and opportunitys, and to meet new friends and collaborators. 

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Involve our young learners in climate change action.

CathyNj

27 March 2024 3:24pm

I am to present a conference paper this June in Bulgaria. Title of the paper is  "Integrating geospatial techniques into learners' school curriculum to mitigate climate...

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East Africa Community Announcement: Introducing our New East Africa Group Leaders

Agripina Cletus and 2 more

24 July 2024 2:30pm

We are thrilled to welcome two new Group Leaders, Catherine Njore (Kenya) and Agriphina Cletus (Tanzania), to our East Africa Community! For the next year, they’ll help curate resources and engagement activities to grow...

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Alex Rood

24 July 2024 1:36pm

So honoured to have you both as our first EVER East Africa group leaders! I'm so excited to see where you take the group over your 12 month term :)
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Maungakiekie Songbird

Iain Hook

23 July 2024 11:03pm

Like to introduce to you Maungakiekie Songbird - a urban based community project that has the goal to enhance the natural habitat around One Tree Hill (large park...

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Participate in the 2024 #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge!

Natalie Peoples

22 July 2024 5:06pm

Participate in our annual #Tech4Wildlife Photo Challenge from August 5 to 9 by sharing photos and videos of how you use technology in your conservation work. 

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Vanesa Reyes

17 July 2024 4:17pm

Looking forward to seeing all the amazing pictures and videos, and learning the stories behind them!
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Catch up with The Variety Hour: July 2024

Alex Rood

22 July 2024 2:36pm

This month, we hear about an upcoming initiative to enhance wildlife tracking through the deployment of new satellites, how radar can address snare detection hurdles, using ChatGPT for wildlife monitoring, and...

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Malaysia Meet Up?

Aaron Moy

11 July 2024 6:34am

Hello! I am a conservation technologist based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I’m fairly new to WildLabs and was wondering if anyone is based here or coming through KL and would like...

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Alex Rood

11 July 2024 3:18pm

Hey Aaron! I'm Alex on the WILDLABS Community/Comms team. I'll go ahead and share this call out on our socials to try and increase reach!

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Thoughts on new MSc in Conservation Technology

Emma Higgins

24 May 2024 3:54pm

Hello everyone, We are in the process of developing a new MSc in Conservation Technology at my university and would welcome your feedback. If you would be willing to give...

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Stephanie O'Donnell

29 May 2024 12:44pm

Building on Frank's comments, I'd also think about including some conversation about the ethical use of technology - Trishant's talk at Tech Tutors a little while ago sparked a really important conversation here in our community, one that would be valueable to have with your students. 

Emma Higgins

25 June 2024 9:19am

Hello, 

Thanks for your comments both, and the information, this is really helpful. I agree correct use and validation is so important here. And thank you for the contact for Kate, the course looks really interesting. 

Thank you for your offer, Frank, I'll send an email through. 

 

Best, 

 

Emma 

Alistair Stewart

29 June 2024 6:15am

It would be great to address data collection, handling and storage. It starts with keeping good records of field deployments so that devices can be refound and helps at the time of analysis and reporting and so studies can be reproduced. Having an understanding of metadata standards for data types as these are often overlooked when projects are starting up. Knowing if there are existing databases or repositories for your data or if you will have to 'roll your own' (something more than an Excel spreadsheet, or at least knowing the potential pitfalls of relying on spreadsheets). That would be a great advantage when entering the workforce and working in this field.

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Research in community-based conservation programs: best practices & challenges

Yanna Vogiazou

24 May 2024 9:57am

A practice-based research project: I am carrying out a qualitative research project to better understand the challenges and best practices when designing and...

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Yanna Vogiazou

14 June 2024 5:49pm

Hi Frank,

First of all my apologies, I thought I replied to your suggestion about a couple of weeks ago, but looks like it didn't go through! 

Thank you, I am already interviewing people at WildHub and it has been very interesting. 

My work does relate to technology, but to the aspect of adoption of new innovative solutions and tools. In this context, I would love to talk to professionals who have worked on "citizen science" projects with local communities. Potentially also wildlife monitoring technologies that are meant to be used by local communities beyond the scope of a particular program or funded research. Please let me know if you have any experience in this area or feel free to suggest anyone who might have and would be open to share some reflections :-) Thank you! 

Frank van der Most

17 June 2024 4:42am

Hi Yanna,

No worries about the delay. Good that you already had found WildHub

I'm afraid that I cannot help you any further with concrete contacts ... uh ... well, it is a long shot, but in early 2020 Osa Conservation was trying to get their visitors ( and who knows, also the local population ) to participate in iNaturalist. Don't pin me on this, but I vaguely remember there were some token 'prizes' for x, y or z observations, like stickers or so. Also, I don't know if it was Osa Conservation's own campaign or that it came from iNaturalist.

cheers

Frank

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Are you attending SMART Global Congress 2024?

Adrien Pajot

22 February 2024 11:13am

Hi everybody!Are you attending SMART Global Congress 2024 in early March?I will be in Namibia for the entire duration of the congress, representing WILDLABS, and would be very...

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Paloma

8 June 2024 7:43am

Hey @antoineede ,

I am not sure about that yet video recordings are available or not but you can visit this: SMART Global Congress 2024 | BluePrism

May be here you will get some of the recorded videos to watch.

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VIHAR-2024 deadline extension, June 30th (Interspeech satellite event) 

Marius Miron

5 June 2024 10:30am

Dear Wildlabs community,The submission deadline for VIHAR-2024 has been extended to June 30th, 2024. VIHAR-2024 (https://vihar-2024.vihar.org) is the fourth international...

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Alex Rood

5 June 2024 3:05pm

Thanks for sharing this @nkundiushuti ! I think this post would be better suited as an event, that way it will show up on the WILDLABS event calendar page. Let me know if you have any questions on how to make an event post! You just click the +Post button in the top right corner, then click "event."

Marius Miron

7 June 2024 8:29am

hi Alex!! I already posted the event, I just wanted to posted an update: the deadline was extended. 

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Where do I go with technical questions about this platform?

Frank van der Most

5 June 2024 4:52pm

The 'Getting Started' page promisesUse this thread in the Community Base to ask questions about navigating the platform,but the link does not work. I would also like to...

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Alex Rood

5 June 2024 6:03pm

@JakeBurton is the go-to person for all questions and problems relating to the website! Jake, can you help with this? 

 

We're in the process of updating some of the content on the website, so thank you for drawing our attention to this!

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