1.Justification
Climate change and digital transformation are the two most powerful trends of our century. Climate change effects in West Africa such as floods, droughts, and heat waves are tremendously impacting the environment and the living beings. Implementation of climate actions including capacity building, research, innovation services are hampered not only by the difficult and limited access to the few existing climate data but also by the region’s lack of equipment to monitor climatic variables. For instance, because of the high prices of the automatic hydrometeorological stations institutionally managed by national hydro-meteorological services and agencies (NHMSAs), West Africa is still experiencing important climate data gaps due to lack of stations in sufficient numbers and because of expensive and expert-dependent maintenance processes of these equipment. Consequently, there is very little data to develop anticipation, adaptation and mitigation solutions to the problems associated with the climate change events and effects.
At WASCAL, we believe that digital transformation of the climate change ecosystem is The Key to tackling climate change in West Africa. The general purpose of Digital transformation is to significantly close data, technology and services gaps in an ecosystem for an effective and more automated management and monitoring of processes and workflows.
Climate change is a complex ecosystem which covers complex processes (atmosphere, water, weather, agriculture, transportation, etc) whose analysis require observation data which in turn necessitate technological devices such as automatic weather stations or hydrological sensors to capture the needed on ground data
WASCAL, in its efforts in bridging the data gaps has been exploring the resort to Internet of things to promote the making of affordable and of good quality of agricultural, hydrological and meteorological sensors locally made and managed with communities to solve high local needs such as farm level measurement of rainfall, and soil nutrient to better trigger data-driven practices for effective smart agriculture.
For that purpose, WASCAL is partnering with Orange Digital Center to offer a training on the professional making of IoT devices in general from design to packaging. Going beyond the classical experimental project using Developmental boards such as ARDUINO, the training will cover both PCB printing of the sensors circuits and 3D printing of boxes where the sensors will be mounted to get a final product usable on the field.
2.General Objectives
The overall objective of this training workshop is to:
- introduce IoT to the participants
- Provide participants with knowledge and skills. about 3D printing
- Provide participants with hands-on knowledge and skills about PCB printing
3. Date and venue
28 Aug to 01 Sep 2023, 14:00 PM to 18:00 PM
The training workshop will be held physically at the WASCAL competence center in Ouaga2000. Because of limited budget and the vocational aim of this training, no perdiem or support fees will be provided to the participants.
