afrimapr: Creating reusable R building blocks for mapping data in Africa in 2020

Presentation for satRday Johannesburg 2020 on 7 March 2020 in South Africa.

The afrimapr project will create software building blocks in R and learning resources to facilitate the use of spatial data in health (and other) applications in Africa. The project will promote these resources to initiate a community of users and developers to maintain and improve them.

Co-authors:

• Dr Andy South (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK)
• Dr Paula Moraga, (Lancaster University, UK)
• Dr Julie-Anne Tangena (Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK)
• Dr Robin Lovelace (University of Leeds, UK)
• Dr Margareth Gfrerer (Education Strategy Center, Ethiopia)
• Anelda van der Walt (Talarify, South Africa)