Overview
The Development and Outreach office at IDIA is in charge of general communications, stakeholder relations and some partnerships, outreach materials creations and marketing.
In addition to these roles, we develop and run specific projects that follow an agenda of accessibility and transformation, as well as building up scientific outreach and development as academic disciplines.

Latest Development and Outreach news
IDIA-supported hackathon for International Data Week
International Data Week (IDW) 2018 is taking place 5-8 Novembre 2018. A global movement mobilizing data scientists and researchers, representatives from industry and policy makers, IDW stimulates the adoption of data-driven…
Big Data skills honed as 27 students from 8 African countries get together in Cape Town.
Last week saw the DARA Big Data Africa School 2018 take place in a scenic mountainside resort near Cape Town, South Africa. 27 young scientists, most of them master’s students…
IDIA partners with the SARAO Big Data Africa school.
The week of 10 – 17 September 2018 sees the 2nd Big Data Africa school take place near Cape Town. Organised by SARAO as part of the Newton Fund‘s DARA Big…
Prof. Taylor gives public talk about “The Square Kilometre Array: Big Telescope, Big Science, Big Data” at SAAO
Members of the public were welcome to an Open Night at the SAAO in Cape Town on 8 September 2018, at 20h00. Professor Russ Taylor presented a talk titled “The…