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Venla
Aaltonen
Doctoral Researcher, Geography
Project Researcher, Geography
Project Researcher
Resilience Academy, KADI (Knowledge and climate services from an African observation and data research infrastructure), FAPI

Areas of expertise

Digtial geospatial research
GIS
Ethics
North-South
Open data
Data quality

Biography

I am a project researcher at the Department of Geography and Geology, University of Turku. I am associated with research projects related to digital geospatial technologies' application in the Global South - past project of Tanzania Resilience Academy, and current project of Knowledge and climate services from an African observation and data research infrastructure (KADI). My related expertise and personal interests lie on open data, ethics, data quality, and interconnectedness of human-nature systems in complex settings, such as the urban South.