Driving Sustainable Research Software and Systems: Insights from the First Research Software Indaba in Africa
On Friday, 19 May 2023, the first Research Software Indaba took place in Cape Town, South Africa. The event was the first of its kind to be held on the African continent and focussed exclusively on topics related to the research software and systems ecosystem. The event was attended by 20 participants who mostly came […]
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Talarify’s journey with afrimapr
afrimapr was established in 2020, and Talarify had the privilege of being part of this project which was funded by the Wellcome Open Research Fund and Wellcome Data for Science and Health. afrimapr’s mandate was to create R building blocks and learning resources to make it easier to make data-driven maps of Africa in Africa. […]
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Mapping the RSE landscape in Africa
Talarify has been involved in creating awareness of the global Research Software Engineer (RSE) movement in Africa since 2015. In 2022 Talarify started supporting RSSE-Africa, a community founded in 2019, by hosting monthly community meetups. The goal of these monthly meetups is to stimulate the growth of an African community of practice around research software […]
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Staying informed: Talarify visits AI Expo Africa
The AI Expo Africa 2022 was held at the Sandton Convention Centre on the 19th and 20th of September 2022. The expo is a business-focused Artificial Intelligence (AI), Robotic Process Automation (RPA), and 4IR trade event in Africa. The expo kicked off with a heartwarming song and dance performance featuring UJ’s dog robot SPOT, which […]
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Introducing DH-IGNITE – Community and capacity building for humanities & social sciences in South Africa
ESCALATOR is one of Talarify’s flagship project and aims to support the development of an active community of practice in digital humanities and computational social sciences in South Africa. The project is funded by the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR). We are excited to announce DH-IGNITE, a regional event to bring together humanities, social sciences and […]
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Software and Data Carpentry Instructor Training Comes to Africa
North-West University eResearch, UCT eResearch, and Talarify are excited to announce that a Software & Data Carpentry Instructor Training event will take place in Potchefstroom, North-West Province, South Africa from 17 – 20 April 2016. The lead trainer will be Aleksandra Pawlik, a Data Carpentry Steering Committee member. She will be joined by several of […]
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