Alicia Olago
Alicia is an environmental scientist and Code for Africa’s senior product manager at sensors.AFRICA. She holds a M.A. in Environment, Security & Governance, specialisation in Climate Security from the University for Peace (Costa Rica).
She leads a team of Hardware Engineers and Technologists in a citizen science initiative, developing & utilising IoT sensors & other remote sensing technologies to monitor air, water & sound pollution, and radiation among other environmental hazards. Open data from these technologies is used to provide citizens & civic watchdogs with actionable information on their cities & communities in Africa.
Alicia has over 10 years of experience working on sustainable development projects in Eastern Africa with local government, INGOs, NGOs, CBOs and Development partners. She has an ardent desire to tackle human vulnerabilities in the global south, by building resilience to climate change through adaptation measures and disaster risk reduction to mitigate security risks
Session
🎥 Session recording: https://youtu.be/yjENat8ts4Q?list=PLhV3K_DS5YfIr2HbYikIz4XMBXKTGytWY&t=9068 🎥
African Wikipedian Alliance (AWA), in collaboration with sensorsAFRICA and Code for Africa’s DataLab, will showcase how open environmental data on openAFRICA can bridge knowledge gaps in climate justice, energy infrastructure, and urban heat mapping across Africa on Wikimedia projects. The session will demonstrate visualised datasets, such as rising temperatures and air quality—and provide participants with a practical guide for integrating these datasets into Wikimedia contents.
This hands-on experience empowers Wikimedians to leverage open data for impactful climate justice content campaigns, fosters collaboration, and strengthens the environmental knowledge base of the Wikimedia movement.