CASA Seminar Series: Geoffrey Kateregga, Humanitarian OpenStreetMap
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.
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.
Geoffrey is also an active member of the OpenStreetMap Africa community - a network of local OpenStreetMap communities from all over Africa organizing State of the Map Africa and joining hands to share resources and collaborate to grow and produce a complete and well-detailed map of Africa on OpenStreetMap to advance the quality, completeness and sustainability of geospatial data in Africa.
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