Latest Contributions by WilliamTarpai

Re: Hi there my name is Thembelani Dube · ‎08-21-2025

Greetings @ThembelaniDube Welcome to the ESRI Community. As @JesseCloutier has mentioned you are in the right place. With the 2025 ESRI User Conference just concluding there are lots more learning to be done. I would suggest tuning into all three of the opening plenary sessions, including the last 20 minutes of the 3rd session and the 4 student from Panama presentations. In addition, check out and register for the National Geographic exploring the power of mapmakers session coming soon Interactive Mapping Technology

‎06-25-2025

Thanks to @MJerling for posting this question, AND to ESRI Community members who were willing to help out. I have been spending time helping out students and young professionals to learn and hone skill sets and gain real-time experience, urging collaborations for sustainable development (think SDG, targets and indicators). Was pleased to begin reviewing the 2025 Sustainable Development Report after it was launched yesterday. ESRI software and tools have played an important role, helping to locate and improve data around the globe, and how ESRI Community members support each other to improve their skills and grow professionally will be studied as an important factor.

‎06-25-2025

New business models, along with new names and ways for doing business are always cropping up, and indeed may be needed. But as Simon notes job titles may be part of those processes, but don't despair or even rush to change....

‎06-18-2025

In 2024, a group I am involved with that is associated with the World Bank Group were surveyed for 100 topics of interest (for 2025) for building, maintaining, and growing Communities of Practice (CoP - post questions if you are not familiar with CoPs in practice) My idea was how it might be possible to speed up the pace of achieving successful Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outcomes for the rest of this decade. (Is everyone familiar with the SDG Challenge (2015-2030) involving almost every country in the world?). This morning (6/18/2025), my group of Community Builders met online to discuss Facilitation Why? We believe that Good facilitation practices (convening methods, nudges, teaming across leaders) set the tone, build up a sense of belonging, and help the community/network attain its goals sustainably. We highlighted: Incentivizing: Tools to incentivize knowledge-originators, and, generally, professionals to actively participate in a CoP and own it. Inclusivity: Creating inclusive CoPs across geographies, languages, programs/departments and ways of knowing (diversity of experience, perspective). Innovative approaches: Innovative ways to use technology during virtual events and asynchronous activities, such as online discussions, co-authoring, field trips. With the 2025 ESRI User Conference happening now, I wanted to post this idea, hoping to bring together mappers and analyst seeking entryways for involvement in the SDG Challenge Soapbox to help improve SDG knowledge Anyone interested in gaining real-time experience on SDG projects in the

‎06-18-2025

As I was reviewing the ACLED mapping of the "No Kings" events that took place around the US last weekend, ACLED your post took on some depth.

‎05-31-2025

BREAKING NEWS - anyone watched in real time the 2025 World Bank Group Youth Summit: Youth-Led Innovation for a Livable Planet. World Bank Youth Summit 2025

‎05-26-2025

With the UC2025 about to begin in San Diego, I'm wondering how many YPNs that may not be able to travel to the west coast for the conference will be tuning in remotely? Between the ESRI UC and the University of California GIS Week (3rd week in November usually), I was hoping to invite as many students and young professionals to set up your own userid and password to visit and explore the Africa Portal, especially Kenya Africa Portal for Kenya For more reference, explore the SDG Geospatial Learning Lab - SDG Geospatial Learning Lab Post a reply if you are interested.....

‎05-20-2025

I neglected to add the SDG Geospatial Learning Lab for SDG 3 Ensure healthy lives for all, everywhere

‎05-19-2025

Thank you @PeterKnoop for not only the extra details, but for adding to the value of this community.

‎05-16-2025

@KatieSmith Wow it was truly an impressive MOOC! Now I need to get my account able to use the software and tools effectively. Who do I need to contact so I can continue to help students build and hone skill sets, while gaining real-time experience speeding up the pace achieving SDG success stories in this decade.

‎05-16-2025

Thanks @ColleenRobledoGreeneMLISFTxSGS for tabling this discussion. - empowering students to hone and improve their mapping and spatial, while engaging in real-time SDG research definitely takes up space so it is an important question for a number of reasons. Last year at the United Nations Civil Society Conference held in Nairobi, Kenya - the importance of data commons for driving real change was a trending topic, especially related to involving more students and their universities in SDG research. see Monitoring our data use effectively We have the evidence, but its scattered, invisible or locked away

‎05-16-2025

@SaraJL Much appreciated. Now that I understand better, am hoping you get a techie to fix it soon. Now back to back to the Civil Society Data Commons - https://csodata.ke

‎05-16-2025

Sara has tabled an interesting question to be sure. I have taken an interest of late in the work of librarians helping to ship books to rural Kenya supporting school and village library development, so I'll leave it to the experts to resolve this specific issue, but am clearly looking for ideas we can work with. I am also thinking about student and university collaborations, as well as possibly, community mapping joint exercises, and data created to belong in the 'commons'. So many possible topics for additional input and ESRI Community discussions. Where ownership begins and end has certainly been the subject of many court cases as I think of the legal wranglings that happened as Facebook was being created. But I'm sure, somewhere in the fine print, that we sadly often do not read until matters come to court, is already an acceptable answer. But, as Sara has noted, procedures are already in place, so the question for me becomes does a 'carve out' need to be made as an exception to the existing rules? Kind of like lobbyist making tax policy exceptions....

‎05-15-2025

My Kenyan colleague Susan suggested I focus on"... mobile data collection and field workflow best practices" as we prepare for our upcoming work as we plan for the "... arrival of the Books for Africa container' with 20,000+ books and equipment for rural development efforts. We have found so many great resources here in ESRI COMMUNITY, and are thankful to members, especially related to "...design principles" for developing moble tools useful in areas where access to electricity and the internet are problematic. We are especially interested in how we can make the apps intuitive and accessible, even in low-resource or offline environments. There’s so much potential to support local schools, libraries, and village leaders through this technology.

‎05-15-2025

WHAT AN INCREDIBLE RESOURCE! How do I raise my hand to volunteer as a GeoMentor for a student or highly motivated class of students (perhaps their school already has an ESRI SCHOOL BUNDLE? With the 2025 ESRI USER Conference happening in July (a great month to be in San Diego by the way), I have been communicating with students about how "...the SDGs are highly dependent on geospatial information and Earth observations as the primary data for relating people to their location and place, and to measure where progress is, or is not being made". Sadly, in the US, neither United Nations, nor the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) challenge are talked about, much less topics for mapping and analysis. While these are topics, I have a level of expertise on, I would definitely like to volunteer my time and energies to help promote greater mapping of scoial justice and rracial equity..... https://yoursdgstory-learngis3.hub.arcgis.com/pages/featured-sdg10

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Re: Hi there my name is Thembelani Dube

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Re: Permit changing ownership of items shared with Shared Update groups

Re: Complimentary Access to ArcGIS StoryMaps in Esri's Popular Course

Re: Checking storage used/remaining in free public accounts

Re: Allowing for the switching of ownership to other members in the ArcGIS Group

Re: Allowing for the switching of ownership to other members in the ArcGIS Group

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