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!
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 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 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: 👇👇👇
This years State of the Map Africa will be taking place at Makerere University Kampala , Uganda East Africa, from 8th to 11th July 2017 .
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.
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.
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.
Jianting Zhao is an Azavea Summer of Maps Fellow and is working with Crowd2Map to analyse the cases of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) by location in Tanzania.
Azavea is an award winning software development, analysis and visualisation firm that applies Geospatial technology for civic social and environmental impact. The summer with GIS background with select non-profit organisations to work on spatial analysis projects in this Crowd Sourced Mapping to Support Sustainable Development and help prevent FGM in Rural Tanzania” Project, Jionting will visualise how FGM incidents are distributed and what factors affect FGM cases.
On 22nd August 2017, Jionting will be presenting her work to anyone who is interested in this topic please join us on zoom where you will be able to listen to the presentation and ask questions. Link will be emailed to registered participants 24 hrs before the event. The event will also be recorded.
On Tuesday 20th June Janet Chapman, Campaigns Manager for Tanzania Development Trust and Co-founder of Crowd2map with Egle Ramanauskaite from the Human Computation Institute will be going to Tanzania for a month to kick start our community mapping programme funded by a Humanitarian OpenStreetMap (HOT) Microgrant. This will allow us to purchase phones and deliver training to 48 village level Community Change Agents every month in 4 areas of Tanzania so that they can map their villages into OpenStreetMap.
This will include adding water points, schools, clinics, places of employment and Government offices to enable development in these areas of extreme poverty, and help protect girls from Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage. You can follow our progress on Facebook and Twitter .
Thank you so much!
Elke Van Dermijnsbrugge is a language expert working at the international school in Moshi and a keen Volunteer for crowd2map who has written this article about us .
Thanks Elke!
http://www.mo.be/wereldblog/delen-plaats-van-geven-stop-de-geldstroom-en-het-voluntourism-richting-a
