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Call For Participation: Crowdsourced Damage Assessment

Posted by Cristiano Giovando on Jun, 28 2017

Through a research collaboration with Stanford University and other partners, HOT is launching three formal research experiments on crowdsourced damage assessment and is seeking participation from the community.

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HOT Indonesia Hosts Mapathon for InAWARE Jakarta Mapping Project with the University of Indonesia

Posted by Biondi Sima on Jun, 15 2017
The Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team (HOT) Indonesia hosts a mapathon with students from the University of Indonesia’s (UI) Department of Geography. UI, one of Indonesia’s leading universities, has been among HOT Indonesia’s academic partners in carrying out projects involving youths and academia.  
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YouthMappers ‘Mapping to End Malaria’ Challenge: Round 3 Results

Posted by Russell Deffner on Jun, 11 2017
YouthMappers ‘Mapping to End Malaria’ Challenge: Round 3 Results The third and final round of the YouthMappers challenge has concluded. In round three, we had 13 Universities participate, bringing the total for all three round to 26 Universities. Also in round three we had 88 student mappers contribute just under 200,000 buildings bringing the grand total of buildings digitized in the challenge to over 600,000. Thank you to all the chapters and students who participated!
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