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3 days of OSM and GIS training kicks off in Mali!

Posted by Amelia Hunt on Apr, 23 2018

*Guest blog; Nathalie Sidibe, OSM Mali*

Today marks the kickoff of 3 days of GIS training for OSM Mali! The OSM Mali team are supporting training in collaboration with Agetic, a Public Administration Office that works in the digital sector and advocates ICT in Mali.

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Microgrants 2018: HOT supports eight OSM communities!

Posted by RebeccaFirth on Apr, 20 2018
We are pleased to announce the launch of this year’s Microgrant programme, which will support communities across South America, the Caribbean, West Africa and Southeast Asia. Thanks to the huge success of this year’s #mapthedifference campaign and the generous contributions of donors, eight communities will receive Microgrants to help them expand their activities to improve the use of OpenStreetMap to minimise the impact of disasters in their local areas. This is the second year we have run this programme.
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Nethope Device Challenge - April Update!

Posted by Amelia Hunt on Apr, 19 2018
Since January 2018, the Nethope grant communities have expanded to 16 communities, with plans to extend to a further 6 in the next 3 months. Grant money has already been advanced to communities Bangladesh, Botswana, Guinea, Indonesia, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mozambique, Peru, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda and Zambia, with our sixteenth community, the Gambia, beginning next week.   Bangladesh 
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