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 […]
Read MoreMapping African RSE groups and communities of practice to grow the RSE movement in Africa
Research software engineers (RSEs) are typically people with a background in a specific research discipline (other than computer science) who spend most of their working time coding. If you think you are a research software engineer, we invite you to be part of our community. We can help you access training, mentoring, new job opportunities, […]
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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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Understanding the lay of the land: the DHCSSza Stakeholder Map Project
ESCALATOR is one of Talarify’s capacity and community building programmes that kicked off in 2020. The programme is co-developed and funded by SADiLaR. On 28 April 2022 we launched the South African Digital Humanities and Computational Social Sciences (DH & CSS) Stakeholder Map project as part of ESCALATOR. This article was first published in April […]
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Finding Where Population Health Studies Have Been Conducted To Inform Climate-health Research
A new research project is setting out to unlock the potential of combining health monitoring data with climate datasets that cover the same times and regions to improve our understanding of the impact of climate on human health. With funding from the Wellcome Trust, this 12-month project brings together expertise from afrimapr (Liverpool School of […]
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Ten simple rules for establishing a mentorship programme
We are excited to announce the publication of our peer-reviewed article ‘Ten simple rules for establishing a mentorship programme’. In the paper, we present a concise summary of recommendations that outline key elements to consider when designing and establishing mentorship programmes. These recommendations are drawn from the collective experiences of four different emerging and established […]
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African data showcased at #TidyTuesday and #30DayMapChallenge
The past month showed a flurry of activities around three things dear to our hearts – African data, maps, and R! See below for images & links to the beautiful maps that people made.
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