Obstacles to developing technical resources and action planning

Obstacles to developing technical resources and action planning

by Innocent Mbokodo -
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•Strict data sharing policy -  Make raw data freely available but have a clause that it shouldn’t be used for financial gain. This can assist SAWS to get feedback on how to improve (QC) the data and product/Service generated from it.
•Not enough personnel – we will have many people working on these datasets
•Establish MoU with academic institutions – we can get training to improve on our analysis (e.g. Modelling and QC procedures)
• Infrastructure - invest in other sources of energy, renewable energy (solar/wind) to power our station because we lose a lot of data due to loadshedding
•Platform that links the user and the provider so that our products speaks to our clients needs -  Clients survey on how we can improve our products
•Before covid, community outreach was planned on how to improve our reports so that they are not too scientific.
•Job shadowing to students to create awareness – It has since stopped due to covid.
•Collaborations with other institutions offering similar services in the country so that we don’t duplicate efforts and compete for same funding.