Women blazing the GIS industry with drone technology
Perhaps it was a good thing that Women and drones decided it was time they stretched their reach to other parts of the world outside the org…
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Update: NASA's Perseverance makes safe touchdown on Mars
203 days ago, on July 30, 2020 in Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Florida, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA) l…
UAV set for historic Mars landing
We know this might have nothing to do with Africa but (in Spider Man’s voice, just after he was snapped back to life and reunites with Mr …
High time the African Union gave drone technology the real chance it deserves
We have a bone to chew with the African Union. Five years after the then AU Commission chairperson, Dr Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma appointed a…
Drone helps save hiker on Table Mountain, Cape Town
DJI Matrice 200 to the rescue. Video: WCGH EMS It is February 15 today; exactly two months to the day the Western Cape Government Health�…
The 2021 drone horoscope: Africa edition
We all know what the year 2020 was like to all of humanity. We were all happy and looking forward to the start of another year – then j…
Women and Drones Trailbazers chat: Zethu Gumede
From KwaZulu Natal with love. It is Zethu Gumede in the spotlight this week, in the latest instalment of Trailblazing Women on Women and…
Drones lead landslide rescue efforts in biggest drone operation in Europe
Around 4AM in Norway on the 30th of December last year, a hillside gave way in the village of Ask in the Gjerdrum region in eastern Norway, …
Leading African drone professionals in conversation
They do not waste time, do they? Just a few days ago, Women and Drones announced the launch of its first international chapter in Africa…
Drones, 5G and smart cities
With drone technology making nothing of a necessarily miraculous rise in the past year, largely thanks to the need to feel the gap left by t…
The 2021 drone regulations landscape
Ever since drone technology started making solid inroads into the mainstream commercial and industrial operations, the laws governing them h…
The case for BVLOS drone deliveries
In the below article, Elsight Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer, Roee Kashee presents the case for governments worldwide to allow beyo…