Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team

Media Contact

Gihan Hassanein

Senior Communications Manager

Gihan is responsible for HOT’s media and public relations. Contact Gihan with all media enquiries and to set up interviews with subject matter experts and field teams. We can also provide high resolution images to accompany stories.

Email: communications@hotosm.org
Phone: +1 438 763 8914

Press Releases

What if we could map one billion people currently missing from the world’s maps? — 18 June 2020

HOT in the News

Ukrainians are scrubbing open-source maps to keep intel from Russia’s army — Rest of the World

Open Data, Local Knowledge and Geospatial Technologies: Public Participation is key to disaster recovery — Directions Magazine

Putting the World’s Slums on the Map — Bloomberg - CityLab

These Maps Show Every LGBTQI+ Safe Space, HIV Facility, and Story in the Philippines — Esquire Philippines

Volunteer armies map 'invisible' communities hit by coronavirus — Thomson Reuters Foundation

Finding the 'invisible' millions who are not on maps — BBC

Satellite Data Reveals the Pandemic's Effects From Above — Wired

Mapping Makoko: How data could help legitimize Nigeria's informal settlements — Devex

Neglected and Unmapped: Makoko struggles to survive — The Guardian Nigeria

How Makoko, Nigeria's floating slum went digital with new mapping project — CNN

After Hurricane Dorian, The 'Wikipedia Of Maps' Came To The Rescue — NPR - Goats and Soda

How Bididi Became a City — National Geographic

Equator from the air — BBC

The Crowdsourced Maps Guiding Puerto Rico's Recovery — Wired

A Mapathon to Pinpoint Areas Hardest Hit in Puerto Rico — The New York Times

Online mapping tool gives FGM runaways a path to help — The Guardian

The Open Source Maps That Make Rescues in Nepal Possible — Wired

What's needed to put more people on the map? — Devex

Missing Maps: nothing less than a human genome project for cities — The Guardian

How Online Mapmakers Are Helping the Red Cross Save Lives in the Philippines — The Atlantic

Mapping our world together

Media Enquiries

Media Contact

Gihan Hassanein

Press Releases

What if we could map one billion people currently missing from the world’s maps? — 18 June 2020

HOT in the News

Ukrainians are scrubbing open-source maps to keep intel from Russia’s army — Rest of the World

Open Data, Local Knowledge and Geospatial Technologies: Public Participation is key to disaster recovery — Directions Magazine

Putting the World’s Slums on the Map — Bloomberg - CityLab

These Maps Show Every LGBTQI+ Safe Space, HIV Facility, and Story in the Philippines — Esquire Philippines

Volunteer armies map 'invisible' communities hit by coronavirus — Thomson Reuters Foundation

Finding the 'invisible' millions who are not on maps — BBC

Satellite Data Reveals the Pandemic's Effects From Above — Wired

Mapping Makoko: How data could help legitimize Nigeria's informal settlements — Devex

Neglected and Unmapped: Makoko struggles to survive — The Guardian Nigeria

How Makoko, Nigeria's floating slum went digital with new mapping project — CNN

After Hurricane Dorian, The 'Wikipedia Of Maps' Came To The Rescue — NPR - Goats and Soda

How Bididi Became a City — National Geographic

Equator from the air — BBC

The Crowdsourced Maps Guiding Puerto Rico's Recovery — Wired

A Mapathon to Pinpoint Areas Hardest Hit in Puerto Rico — The New York Times

Online mapping tool gives FGM runaways a path to help — The Guardian

The Open Source Maps That Make Rescues in Nepal Possible — Wired

What's needed to put more people on the map? — Devex

Missing Maps: nothing less than a human genome project for cities — The Guardian

How Online Mapmakers Are Helping the Red Cross Save Lives in the Philippines — The Atlantic

Mapping our world together

Media Contact

Gihan Hassanein

Press Releases

What if we could map one billion people currently missing from the world’s maps? — 18 June 2020

HOT in the News

Ukrainians are scrubbing open-source maps to keep intel from Russia’s army — Rest of the World

Open Data, Local Knowledge and Geospatial Technologies: Public Participation is key to disaster recovery — Directions Magazine

Putting the World’s Slums on the Map — Bloomberg - CityLab

These Maps Show Every LGBTQI+ Safe Space, HIV Facility, and Story in the Philippines — Esquire Philippines

Volunteer armies map 'invisible' communities hit by coronavirus — Thomson Reuters Foundation

Finding the 'invisible' millions who are not on maps — BBC

Satellite Data Reveals the Pandemic's Effects From Above — Wired

Mapping Makoko: How data could help legitimize Nigeria's informal settlements — Devex

Neglected and Unmapped: Makoko struggles to survive — The Guardian Nigeria

How Makoko, Nigeria's floating slum went digital with new mapping project — CNN

After Hurricane Dorian, The 'Wikipedia Of Maps' Came To The Rescue — NPR - Goats and Soda

How Bididi Became a City — National Geographic

Equator from the air — BBC

The Crowdsourced Maps Guiding Puerto Rico's Recovery — Wired

A Mapathon to Pinpoint Areas Hardest Hit in Puerto Rico — The New York Times

Online mapping tool gives FGM runaways a path to help — The Guardian

The Open Source Maps That Make Rescues in Nepal Possible — Wired

What's needed to put more people on the map? — Devex

Missing Maps: nothing less than a human genome project for cities — The Guardian

How Online Mapmakers Are Helping the Red Cross Save Lives in the Philippines — The Atlantic

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