AICCRA ESA: Connecting PyCPT2 training participants for sustained interactions/peer-to-peer learning
Amanda Grossi
Dear all,
Hello, and I hope you have had a wonderful first week of training and will enjoy some well-deserved time off to rest, relax, and explore beautiful Zanzibar this evening and tomorrow.
As promised this morning, I am emailing you to follow up with some important information that we will discuss more on Monday:
Amongst the goals of our East and Southern Africa regional training on improved seasonal forecasting approaches through PyCPT2 is to create a strong network of actors within Africa with equally strong capacities to advance the generation of high-quality climate information and services. That means we encourage and expect all of you to not only act as ambassadors and resources of this PyCPT2 approach within your own countries, but others as well. To do so, we understand that the connections you have made during this training must be sustained, cultivated, and even expanded.
In an effort to support the continued interactions of this group even after the training concludes on Tuesday, we therefore have done three things:
1. We have created an email list for all of you (pycp...@iri.columbia.edu). An email sent to this email address will go to all of your colleagues you see here at the training.
2. We have created an accompanying Google Group (Click here) where you can feel free to start conversations about any topics you choose.
3. We are encouraging you all to sign up for GitHub by clicking here, join the IRI PyCPT project group, and then use the Discussion Board functions under “Issues” on the top menu bar to raise any issues or technical problems you may have as you implement PyCPT2. We encourage you to interact with each other on this board to help each other solve issues first amongst each other (peer-to-peer) before coming to the IRI. This is because we’d like to build a strong community of practice and capacity within your regions, though we are of course happy to also answer questions there as they arise as well.
Lastly, we also encourage you to continue accessing and even sharing the training resources found on the Wiki page for the training here. Think about 'bookmarking' this page in your internet browsers for easy access.
That is all for now! We will walk through some of these items more on Monday.
Warm regards,
Amanda
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Amanda Grossi |
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AICCRA Project Senior Country Manager— Ethiopia, Senegal, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Zambia |
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International Research Institute for Climate and Society |
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