Security drones and job security
Security drones have been good to humans. Well… most of them anyway. They have saved lives. They have saved people from dangerous si…
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Swoop Aero releases the Kite
The question of whether it is a plane or a bird has been answered. It is a kite. No; really. We are serious. Or rather, Swoop Aero …
De-mining drones gaining more traction
Twice now, we have written about how drone technology has been deployed to clean up in two African countries looking to erase the tragic rem…
The journey so far - cargo drones in Africa
...according to Denise Soesilo One of the founders of Outsight International – a consulting and project management company for the huma…
The future of delivery drones
Spoiler alert... it is bright. The World Economic Forum has clearly warmed up to the arrival of drone technology as an economic force on …
Four days until #DUACon2021
It is looks set to be a really important week for the drone community in Southern Africa, with the Drones and Unmanned Aviation Conference (…
Drones stepping in to fill the transport gap in Africa
By Aiga Stokenberga; Economist, Transport Global Practice; World Bank Group; and Maria Catalina Ochoa; Senior Urban Transport Specialist at …
Drone technology and the law in Rwanda, Tanzania
The following article, which first appeared on ICT Works, analyses the trajectories of drone technology development in Tanzania and Rwanda �…
Drone technology and the law in Africa
In the article below, first published by Drone Life, Kim James, the Director of UAV Aerial Works, and drone law experts share their experien…
Lessons learned from medical drone logistics in Africa
Tip of the hat of the hat to the Inter Drone Podcast for scoring this video with Harrison Wolf, one of the world's top voices on medical dro…
TerraCam drones to the world
Most folks in South Africa woke up to the reality of drone technology around 2015, when its applications to various commercial ventures were…
Drones and utility infrastructure inspections
One area in which drone technology has proved its usefulness since it arrived on the scene has been in the way it has made some jobs safer f…