If you’re interested in conservation / sustainable development and associated technologies let me know! Always looking to collaborate and bounce ideas off others.
NGOs jobs tend to be structured on topics as much as on functions, so making a shortlist of topical keywords might be helpful in the search to become aware of organizations. You should also look directly at organizations' staff lists, which are typically fairly open and have emails listed. One thing to be aware of is many nonprofits have tightly budgeted projects with specific needs, so getting your foot in the door on a less interesting project might be needed. Generalists can benefit here.
I know a few job sites that collect these kind of positions, some techy and some not:
https://greenjobs.greenjobsearch.org/
https://www.devex.com/jobs/search/
Last I will mention the nonprofit organization I work for - World Resources Institute (https://wri.org). We organize our work around seven global challenges: food, forests, water, the ocean, energy, climate, and cities. We do research, build data products and applications, organize partnerships. We help tackle some the largest questions related to how we collectively transition to a world where more than 9 billion humans have their food and energy needs met through fair economic and environmental systems.
Seeing as you are in DRC. I've worked on a number of projects there. Maybe you might be interested in checking out an app we made to help NGO/media etc learn about and manage their digital and physical security? Lots of groups on the ground there have used it in situations like kidnap, targeted malware etc.
It's called Umbrella. It's free, opens source, on ios and Android available in many languages. If you are interested, have a look at at https://www.secfirst.org or ping me via the email in my profile! :)
This looks like a behavioral modification tool, to prevent kidnap, etc. Two questions: is there a scenario database of DRC "actualized risk", that describe real kidnaps, extortion, etc ideally with root cause analysis? What is your revenue model[1]? Okay, 3 questions: what do you think of tools like what NSO provides for client recovery?
1 - Speculation: do you make revenue by providing a marketplace where security service providers can market to consumers?
So at the moment the advice we give is not country specific. We have slightly different levels depending on risk, threat model and skill. Building a logic to do country by country was something we tried but is incredibly hard.
Our revenue model is based on a few things. We got grants to build the initial version, we also create paid white label versions for organisations that want their own and we do security training and consultancy services.
Regarding NSO Group. Well considering we work every day with journalists and activists, some of whom have been targeted by NSO...to say we despise what NSO does is probably an understatement.
PS: I love that autocorrect.
Really cool stuff. I wonder if face detection is sufficient too? It has been proven to work for brown bears [0].
I have also been doing some open source work [1] to democratise object detection in this space but I haven't had the time to make improvements to the project in a while.
* [0] http://bearresearch.org/
I think many programmers want to do something good ( preferably by learning) and are willing to spend time on projects like this.
Ps. Don't forget to submit it here ;)!
To simulate this invention:
- have a dog
- put something smelly on your thumb
- extend arm to point thumb towards dog
- as the dog is within 5-10cm radius of your thumb, press your thumb against their nose (and say the obligatory "boop")
- imagine your had something to extract noseprints from their nose on your thumb
https://gorillafund.org/karisoke-research-center/noseprints-...
Where can I read more about this part of your work?
Gorilla tracking devices are likely to be intrusive and cumbersome for them. They are also known to help each other out and remove devices. For now, gorillas are tracked on foot by a team of rangers.