The first State of the Map Tanzania was held at dLab, Dar es Salaam from December 8th to 10th 2017, and was a great success. You can read more about it here.
It were 3 days of talks, workshops and training about every aspect of mapping Tanzania.
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Volunteering Opportunity for University Students
Are you in a Geography or International Development university department, wanting a real life example of how mapping can help rural African communities?
Who are we?
Crowd2Map Tanzania is an initiative created and managed by the Tanzania Development Trust. There are many missing maps in rural Africa. We have made it our mission to add as many OpenStreetMaproads and buildings to rural Tanzania.
Our goal
Our efforts have resulted in creating better maps which help humanitarian aid agencies, but especially vulnerable girls. Girls in Tanzania are at risk of being genitally mutilated (female gender mutilation/ FGM), and our maps help them find safer routes to and from schools.
Join us – fill in the form below please
How you can help
We offer you an opportunity to do remote (online) mapping (psst… there are additional, related opportunities when you join us). Whether you have 1 or 5 hours a week to assist us, we need you! Please join our growing community of international volunteers. Some of them are on the ground in Tanzania, and we’ll encourage you to work with them through our various communication channels. We use a combination of satellite and field mapping and validation in our approach.
What is in it for you?
As a student in geography, topology, geology; in humanitarian studies and international development work, you’ll be giving us the kind of insightful and motivated help we are looking for. In turn, we’ll reward you with a badge and/or certificate honoring your volunteering contribution. And: You will expand your international network online for future opportunities. Volunteering opens doors!
Additional opportunities
Once you connect with us, we’ll have further opportunities. For instance: You may want to deliver training sessions on OpenStreetMap. You may want to take part in our competition to create a printed map of a village. Or you may be interested in forming a YouthMapper chapter.
Come on… join us!
Welcome to the mapathon everyone!
We’re trying to break the record of the biggest mapathon ever for the 13th anniversary of OpenStreetMap, and it is now LIVE!
The mapathon will last until 11am UTC tomorrow (August 14). We are mapping here http://tasks.hotosm.org/?sort_by=priority&direction=asc&search=Tanzania+Development+Trust
There are instructions here: http://bit.ly/MapBuildings
PLEASE TRY TO ADD AT LEAST ONE BUILDING DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS. AND TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS!
We are hoping to beat the record for most mappers involved within 24 hours. You can check whether your edit has been counted. http://bit.ly/Crowd2MapTracker
We’re presenting at State of the Map 2017!
We are proud to announce that we will be presenting our research at the State of the Map 2017 – the global OpenStreetMap conference of the year!
Egle Marija Ramanauskaite, our Co-founder & Crowdsourcing scientist will present research on measuring the impact of maps in fighting FGM & supporting development in rural Tanzania.
Here’s the abstract:
If you’ll be there, join us the first day of the conference, 18th August, 2.40pm (GMT+9) in Room 1!
Janet Chapman returns from Community mapping in rural Tanzania
Our own Janet Chapman recently returned from our community mapping training in Tanzania curtsey of our Microgrant from HOT (Humanitarian OpenStreetMap).
Check this link for some of her updates.
She at the same time had a great chance to represent Crowd2map at the State of the Map Africa conference in Kampala July with more of her presentation .
hiaragirlpower.blogspot.ug Many thanks to HOT (HUMANITARIAN OPENSTREET MAP ) andSOTM (STATE OF THE MAP AFRICA).
Our latest statistics on crowd2map (by July 2017) Thank you all the mappers!
Our latest updated mappers dash board herehttp://www.fragosus.pe.hu/volunteers/index.html
We are currently mapping herehttp://tasks.hotosm.org/?direction=asc&page=1&search=Tanzania+Development+Trust&sort_by=priority
Kindly join in and crowd to map with us by following instructions in this attachment.getting-started-with-tanzania-project-2501
With a short video clip to follow;https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg4mm7wu4RY&feature=youtu.be
Let’s work together to save lives by mapping to trace for and rescue the girls from Female Genital Mitigation in parts of rural Tanzania.
We are Celebrating the 13th anniversary of OpenStreetMap with hopefully the biggest mapathon ever!
Crowd2Map with OpenStreetMap is inviting you to join us from every where in the world for hopefully the biggest mapathon ever! On August 13th, 11am GMT, we will celebrate 13 years of OSM, with local mapping parties & online !
We are trying to break the record of 1500 people in 24 hrs, so join & support us from wherever you are!! You’re invited to map one of these tasks: http://bit.ly/MapTanzania, although any point added in Tanzania with the tag #crowd2map in the 24 hour period from 11 am GMT on Sunday 13th August until Monday 14th August will count.
More information & registration here: 👇👇👇
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/crowd2map-hosts-the-biggest-online-mapathon-ever-to-get-rural-tanzania-onto-openstreetmap-and-help-tickets-36751714367
We are in Kampala for the first State of the Map Africa!
This years State of the Map Africa will be taking place at Makerere University Kampala , Uganda East Africa, from 8th to 11th July 2017 .
Crowd2Map has been invited!
We will be presenting at 2 sessions on Saturday in which everyone is welcome to participate in remotely (both sessions will also be recorded).
The first is a Round table looking at Women in Technology and Mapping at 11.30 EAT. Register to attend the live stream here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/women-in-technology-and-mapping-session-state-of-the-map-uganda-tickets-35955408595
The second is our talk at 3.30 EAT and we will be presenting our experience of training community mappers in rural Tanzania as part of our HOT Microgrant. The link to join is here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/publish?crumb=10b5dc45a29f39&eid=35955991338.
Talk Title: GROWING LOCAL COMMUNITIES OF MAPPING IN RURAL TANZANIA.
Date & Time: July 8th, 15.30 (GMT+3)
Given by: JANET CHAPMAN.
Talk abstract: Crowd2Map is a volunteer run project mapping rural Tanzania, Since 2015 , we have recruited remote volunteers to map the areas of greatest interests via satellite imagery, and we have been training local communities to map their own villages with smartphones.
This year we have been awarded a HOT microgrant to support our community mapping efforts and provide local change agents with smartphones on short term loan .Many thanks to the HOT microgrant Team.
This talk will outline some of the issues and lessons to technology as well as given an overview of our research efforts to measure the impact of better maps in rural Tanzania.
Please join us if you can make it to State of the Map Africa this year, or remotely !
Safe House girls & crew getting engaged in our community mapping!
On Friday, 24th June, everyone around the Mugumu Safe House was getting involved with our community mapping programme that we were able to set up with the help of a HOT microgrant:
Below in the photo, Neema the Safe House social worker showing Ayubu how to access a map of Mugumu on a phone provided by the HOT microgrant. Although he is the Safe House driver he’s never used a map before.
An Applaud to the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap team
Yesterday 23rd June 2017 under the Crowd2Map project;
Janet Chapman “on the ground” with the girls at the safe house started off by making all the necessary configurations and setting up phones for training more volunteers on how to create navigable maps of local areas in Tanzania to help rescue and allocate innocent girls who are being forced to undergo Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
We greatly thank the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap for offering this grant for purchasing these phones and all the necessary peripherals.
Volunteers were further trained on how to use smartphones to collect and help capture the where about of all the girls likely to face the risk of Female Genital Mutilation.
