Digital re-greening - how green tech charity Justdiggit is using AI and mobile apps to connect with local communities
Justdiggit is on a mission to cool down our overheating planet. To achieve this grand aim, it’s focusing on a specific geography and task - re-greening African landscapes.
With the intention of tackling two huge, interlinked challenges – cooling down the planet and regreening degraded land – technology including artificial intelligence (AI), hi-res satellite imagery, and mobile apps are vital to ensuring Justdiggit’s nature-based projects have the most far-reaching impact possible.
One of the first nature-based projects the charity rolled out was rainwater harvesting using semi-circular bunds - holes in the ground that capture rain - to restore landscapes at scale. Carl Lens, Head of Digital Regreening at Justdiggit, notes:
That technique is not something we invented. It is an ancient technique that is also often used in West Africa for a long time already. But we basically introduced that into East Africa, and it was a huge success from...
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