This video features young Africans who have taken part in the DARA Big Data programme, as postgraduate students, workshop participants, policy fellows & tutors 💻👩🏿‍💻 We are grateful to them for their participation & to all those who have supported @darabigdata. #BigData #Africa

Kicking off at the Nairobi Regional Data Science Hackathon #DSRH2025 @DARABigData @Hack4Dev

C4DLab hosted the DARA Big Data-Hack4Dev Regional Hackathon last week! Brilliant minds tackled ML for CubeSats, focusing on optimizing image classifiers. Kudos, all the participants. More: https://t.co/rIBDgSrh6E🚀🔭📊🤖🎊 @DARABigData @Hack4Dev @uonbi #BigData #NairobiHackathon

After three days of intense training and learning, the Trainers Hackathon has come to a close! 🎉 We’re incredibly proud of the participants and look forward to seeing them apply their skills and lead impactful regional hackathons. 🌍🚀 #DSTH2024 #DSTH2025 #Hackathons

We’re thrilled to introduce the Data Science Trainers Hackathon (DSTH) 2024, hosted at WITS University in Johannesburg, South Africa. 🌍📊 A special thank you to our main sponsor, @DARABigData , for making this event possible! #Hack4dev #Hackathons

As we embark on our new journey with the Data Science Hackathons, we proudly honour Prof. Carolina Odman-Govender, the visionary founder of Hack4Dev🌎✨: https://t.co/IAnRfMlWoU #Hack4dev #DataScience #DSTH2024 #DSRH2025

The #BigData Africa School will allow students to work on real-life data sets in the area of Earth observation by applying #MachineLearning techniques in trying to solve some of the biggest challenges facing the African continent. Details: https://t.co/MCDSZdQ5KK

Our founder Ann Njeri spoke at the @UNESCOUK Chairs Conference in London yesterday. She was invited to speak about girls' education in #Kenya & the difference that @ElimishaMschana is making to the lives of so many young women. #Education needs to be accessible to all ♀️🇰🇪 #STEM

Hack4Dev is inviting alumni, postgraduates, and professionals to host data science hackathons at their institutions! For more information and registration please follow: https://t.co/LgU1tOTnWt #datascience #hackathon

New DARA funded postdoctoral #fellowships across the #Africa VLBI countries! Details on link below, application deadline 21st July. Please share with anyone who would be a good fit. https://t.co/2vQUPAT9VZ

We are currently interviewing for the 2025 intake of MSc and PhD students. If you are interested in studying the Universe at the highest angular resolution (or know someone else who might), then please get in touch to join our team! @UPTuks @SKA_Africa @KapteynAstro @SKAO #VLBI

SARAO Masters Scholarships The South African Radio Astronomy Observatory (SARAO) has announced its Master’s Scholarships for the 2025 academic year. Important Dates: Call Opens: 27 May 2024 Closing Date: 20 August 2024 https://t.co/EEMQt36zXr #Scholarships #Research

Great news for radio astronomy in Africa: the @dara_project & @DARABigData have secured a major funding boost to train 225 more students in the field over the next three years, across eight SKAO African partner countries. Read more in our magazine ⤵️

There are planned hackathons at the #IAUGA2024, which you can sign up for but sadly there is no extra funding available for participants and they will precede the meeting by 2 days. Sign up https://t.co/ZCZrs5SKg6 #AfASOpportunities #Hackathons

AI revolutionises astronomy – and understanding of the universe https://t.co/SQVBtx7cs5 @dsigovza @NRF_News @SKA_Africa @DARABigData and South Africa playing leading part

Read all about the major new funding award for both @dara_project and @DARABigData! 'African training project DARA gets major funding boost' on page 34 of the new issue of Contact. 📡✨💻

What an incredible journey it has been at the 4th AfAS Annual Conference! From sharing inspiring discoveries to forming lasting collaborations, this experience has been amazing. We are grateful to have connected with brilliant minds! 💫 #AfASConference #AfricanAstronomy

Wrapping up the 4th AfAS Conference on a high note with an exciting Data Science Hackathon at the Oukaimeden Observatory. This hackathon provides participants with a unique opportunity to delve into the complete machine learning pipeline, from inception to real-world application!

Day 2 of the 4th AfAS Annual Conference was a great success! Featuring a mix of science plenary sessions and outreach programs, the event made African astronomy a trending topic. Excited to see what tomorrow has in store! #AFASConference #AfricanAstronomy

Had a great time at the #RIDaysEU yesterday talking about #AI4Science with @manu_gira @Adra_eu_ & @pushmeet @GoogleDeepMind - a clear message that collaboration is key to success! @EUScienceInnov @ERC_Research @turinginst @OfficialUoM @UKRI_tweets

Ensuring African students are at the centre of @SKAO and radio astronomy advances in Africa, Prof. Melvin Hoare's @DARABigData project is funded by @STFC_Matters following his #ISFLeeds award More on the impact of the @physicsleedsuni global collaboration: https://t.co/55Afw0MSag