The Wandhala Drone Project: Redefining Aerial Excellence
Creating Digital Capability Within First Nations Businesses, Organisations and Communities.
The Wandhala (Eagle) Drone Project is coming to a close, with nearly all core activities and training sessions delivered successfully. This project has been an important step in supporting First Nations business participants to explore how drone technology can be used for land management, cultural heritage monitoring and small business ventures.
We are proud to have partnered with the Department of State Development, Infrastructure and Planning to deliver the Wandhala (Eagle) Drone Project. Funded by the Regional Economic Futures Fund (REFF), the Wandhala Drone Project is part of the broader initiative to leverage advanced technology for land management and conservation to create sustainable jobs and stronger, diverse economies in the South West, Darling Downs and South Burnett (including Cherbourg) Regions.
The project has supported approximately 40 participants to undertake digital drone training and business skills development. It has helped build digital capability within First Nations businesses, organisations and communities to leverage employment and economic development opportunities through use of drones, to deliver cultural and environmental monitoring and assessment services within the renewable energy supply chain, as well as improve individual employment opportunities for application in agriculture, land management and conservation, and other industries that require drone technology.
Watch the Wandhala Drone Trainee Stories Below
Meet the Project Coordinator
Jackson Shillingsworth
Jackson is a descendant of the Margany People from Southwest Queensland and one of our Project Delivery Officers based in Cunnamulla. Jackson brings extensive knowledge to the project around native title and cultural heritage management and has a passion to working with communities to achieve, social, cultural and economic outcomes.
