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Related: I’m still looking for leads and help on jobs, fellowships, and freelance contracts on drones, GIS, aid, disaster, OSINT, tech ethics, and journalism. I simply will not work for evil people and/or weapons manufacturers, which is also why I haven’t had paying work since Trump 2.0 began.

I know that big telecom companies, the folks running the nationwide long-haul networks and tying all the data centers together, are all dealing with issues on their networks that come down to not having eyes on the assets. A well-written proposal about how drones could inspect the routes might…

lead to something interesting. Especially if you were able to include info about possible rights-of-way for new fiber builds. Just listened to our CTO commit to physically inspecting thousands of route-miles of fiber, AND then setting up ongoing physical eyes-on reviews.

And knowledge of modern GIS systems (we use QGiS because it’s open source), and how to integrate with drones would be even better.