CASA Seminar Series: Janet Chapman, Crowd2Map / Tanzania Development Trust
Crowd2Map - mapping rural Tanzania for community development and help fight Female Genital Mutilation.
This event has been arranged by CASA the Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis
CASA Seminar Series: Janet Chapman, Crowd2Map / Tanzania Development Trust
20 Oct 2021, 17:00 – 18:00
About the talk
Crowd2Map is a volunteer crowdsourced project in which over 16,000 online volunteers have added over 6.5 million buildings into OpenStreetMap in rural Tanzania. Over 800 community mappers and FGM activists have then added their local knowledge to this base map. Better maps have helped community development towards the SDGs, brought rural women online for the first time and helped protect over 3000 girls from FGM.
Tanzania Development Trust
Janet Chapman is the chair of Tanzania Development Trust, a volunteer run charity that has been working with grassroots communities in Tanzania for 46 years. It's priorities are clean water, girls education and helping groups lift themselves out of extreme poverty via small income generating projects. As these projects are in rural areas that were extremely poorly mapped, Janet started Crowd2Map in 2015 to help address this.