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The AirQo Story: From One Sensor to an African Air Quality Network
The AirQo Story: From One Sensor to an African Air Quality Network
Almost a decade ago, researchers at Makerere University in Uganda set out to answer a simple question: could Africa build its own technology to measure the air Africans breathe? In this episode of Clean Air Report Ghana, host Michael Asharley speaks with Professor Engineer Bainomugisha, Professor of Computer Science at Makerere University and Project Lead at AirQo, about how a small research project grew into an air-quality monitoring network spanning cities across Africa. He recounts the yea...