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CASA Seminar Series: Geoffrey Kateregga, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap
12 October 2022, 4:00 pm–5:00 pm
This event is free.
Event Information
Open to
- All
Availability
- Yes
Cost
- Free
Organiser
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Dr Max Nathan
OpenStreetMap is not just a map, but also a community of people who collaborate to create a free digital map of the world. But this openly available data will only be useful if its being used to solve local challenges, otherwise it will remain irrelevant to local people. Since 2017, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) has been supporting local communities through microgrants to leverage OpenStreetMap data and tools to design and run open mapping projects. This talk will focus on why its important to empower local communities to contribute to open mapping, sharing examples from HOT's Open Mapping Hub in Eastern and Southern Africa.
About the Speaker
Geoffrey Kateregga
Community Projects Lead at Humanitarian OpenStreetMap
Geoffrey currently serves as the Community Projects Lead in the Community Team. Geoffrey has been involved in HOT since 2015 working on different country projects including Ramani Huria in Tanzania, Financial Inclusion, and Refugee Mapping in Uganda, LEGIT in Liberia.
