Strengthen the community resilience to the rapid rise of the Lake Tanganyika through the use of open data - Relatório do Evento
- Dia
- Saturday 6 March 2021
- Local
- Uvira, Democratic Republic of the Congo (Europe, Middle East & Africa)
- Organizadores
- Mijas Multimedia
No sábado, 6 de Março de 2021, o décimo primeiro Dia dos Dados Abertos foi realizado por pessoas de todo o mundo através da organização de centenas de eventos para celebrar, promover e disseminar o uso de dados abertos. Graças aos generosos suportes, a Open Knowledge Foundation foi capaz de apoiar a realização de mais de 60 destes eventos através nosso esquema de minibolsas.
Este evento recebeu uma minibolsa da Open Knowledge Foundation graças ao suporte de Microsoft.
Como seu evento celebrou os Dados Abertos?
The water level of Lake Tanganyika in the African Great Lakes region is dangerously rising. Since 2015, up to 100 meters of lands have been taken by water destroying houses and threatening many others in various coastal cities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Burundi, Tanzania and Zambia.
In the framework of finding adaptive measures due to the rapid rise of the lake and strengthen the resilience of populations living in the risk areas. On the occasion of Open Data Day 2021, Mijas Multimedia organised an event whose overall goal was to use open data in strengthening the community resilience to the rapid rise of Lake Tanganyika. The project aimed at raising the awareness to the local community on the use of risk data in protecting exposed citizens.
During the event, more hands-on than theoretical activities were carried out including;
• Spatial image comparison and analyzing: this process comprised of taking up to date spatial images in the field with drone
• Image analysis: this process consisted of comparing spatial images taken by drone in the field with out-of-date images from Google Maps (after analysis we realized that the Google Maps image of the city is from 2019) in the goal of understanding the advance level of the lake and project next social economic infrastructures
• Risk communication: this process consisted of sharing the data through various formats including spatial mapping and media outreach in the aim of informing those living under risk areas
After the event’s completion, the local authorities promised to take into account data produced during the event in reducing the disaster risk to exposed communities living at the coasts of Lake Tanganyika.
Lições aprendidas no evento:
We’ve learned various lessons during and after the event’s completion including;
• The lack of knowledge of local authorities on how to tackle the rapid of Lake Tanganyika and the ignorance about the existence of the open data concept
• The authorities’ involvement in the promotion of open data through the increasing of data transparency
Porque você ama o Dia dos Dados Abertos?
Apart from defending the open data concept across the world, Open Data Day is the event that covers some local challenges in giving them an international outreach. It also helps the open data practitioners realise their respective projects locally and give them the opportunity to fly with their own wings.
