The IDIA Quarter 1 2026 newsletter, covering January to March 2026, highlights a strong start to the year across research, technology, and human capacity development.
Highlights include Nature portfolio publications from the IDIA community, the release of iDaVIE v1.0, and expanding contributions to AI and machine learning in astronomy.
The newsletter also showcases the impact of the ilifu cloud computing platform in enabling MeerKAT science globally, as well as training, hackathons, and skills development programmes that are building data science capacity across Africa.
Reflecting more than a decade of growth and impact in data-intensive astronomy, this edition captures both the scale of current activity and IDIA’s evolving role in the SKA era.