For remote workers, Dakar offers a few places where you can post up with your laptop for a few hours. The map above shows co-working spaces, hotels and cafes that can be decent workspaces with basic criteria: large tables, outlets and the kind of atmosphere where you can get work done (not too crowded or noisy).
Click on the points to get more information about them.
Most of these places have internet, but you’d be advised to hotspot your phone in any case, since the connection can get spotty.
Client/Employer: ACF
During the 2017/2018 Sahelian drought, surface water in pastoral zones was acutely scarce, worsening conditions for livestock herds who depended on lakes and ponds for water.
Using 1km imagery from Proba-V, an “Accessibility” anomaly was calculated (visible in the lower-right corner of the infographic). This showed the presence of surface water for the current year, compared with the average area of surface water for the same zone between the 1998-2017 period. Areas shaded in blue were in excess of the average and red areas in deficit. The darkest red areas were completely absent of surface water.
This was then complemented with Sentinel 2 imagery taken from Sentinel Hub’s EO Browser to show the difference between 2016 and 2017.
From 2014-2019, I managed Action Contre la Faim’s Pastoral Early Warning System for West Africa. More information can be found on the web portal for the service: www.sigsahel.info
Client/employer: ACF, 2016
In partnership with the Minsitry of Health of Niger, my team built an SMS-based monitoring service to track cases of Rift Valley Fever in Tahoua, Niger. The data was used by the Ministry of Health to quickly track and respond to suspected outbreaks and reduce the number of costly field visits. A network of community respondents (veterinarians, livestock production technicians) regularly provided information on local outbreaks via SMS. The responses were pushed to a cloud server, where GPS coordinates were attached, allowing for the cases to be easily mapped.
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