Industry-academia collaboration empowers next-gen GIS professionals

Partnerships between industry and academia are essential to bridge the gap between research and the development of products and services. That’s what has brought the University of Pretoria’s Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Meteorology and geospatial information science company AfriGIS together in a collaboration that supports industry innovation.

“Technical workshops provide hands-on experiences that allow our students to apply theoretical concepts to real-world scenarios,” says Dr Hansen. “It’s a mutual exchange of knowledge and resources that helps to produce graduates who are better equipped with industry-relevant skills and promotes the development of solutions that address everyday problems.”

“The students were taken through the process of how to do data collection correctly and ensure its integrity,” says Dr Hansen. “This is fundamental to any GIS system and requires a significant amount of planning to get right. There was some frustration in the beginning, but they really appreciated being exposed to Charl and Christopher’s expertise and to have hands-on assistance from them.”

A follow-up workshop held at AfriGIS’s premises in Centurion further exposed the students to the real-world application of GIS, as well as AfriGIS’s industry leading software platform, data management system, web-based mapping applications, tools for geospatial analysis and modelling, hardware infrastructure and more. They also had the opportunity to talk to the AfriGIS team.

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