OAD at IST Africa 2021 Conference

OAD at IST Africa 2021 Conference

OAD Big Data Fellow, Dr Nikhita Madhanpall, gave a talk on “Big Data Analytics Capacity Building with Radio Astronomy” at the IST-Africa 2021 conference held from 10 – 14 May, 2021. The conference was the 16th in an annual series of Ministerial Level Technology Research and Innovation Conferences.

IST-Africa is a strategic collaboration between IIMC (Ireland) and Ministries and National Councils responsible for Information Society, ICT and Innovation Adoption, Policy and Research in 18 African Countries, supported by the European Commission (EC) and African Union Commission (AUC). IST-Africa 2021 was hosted by the Government of South Africa through the Department of Science and Innovation.